- 181. Re: MGB CG? (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 09:58:04 +0100
- Dunno about the height, but since the front/rear weight distribution is quoted as near 50/50 (actual front and rear weights can be found at http://www.mgb-stuff.org.u/kwn_suspensionframe.htm then cli
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-04/msg00022.html (7,742 bytes)
- 182. Re: Fun to watch honda.co.uk Commercial (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:29:35 +0100
- Being shown in the UK at the moment, but the voice-over sounds American to me. Reputedly genuine albeit filmed in several takes and stitched together, the only 'trickery' is said to be weighting the
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-04/msg00024.html (8,303 bytes)
- 183. Re: Header paint (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:47:13 +0100
- It may be unobtainable outside the UK but I used Halfords Very High Temperature Aluminium 'rattle can' on new tubular mild steel manifolds. I was as careful as I could be about preparing the surfaces
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-04/msg00031.html (8,373 bytes)
- 184. Oil pressure (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:14:26 -0000
- I'm in the middle of doing a top-end rebuild of my factory V8 whilst still in the car. I got the heads off and as part of many tests decided to check the oil flow out of the ports in the block. I spu
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-03/msg00000.html (7,438 bytes)
- 185. Re: Rocker assembly question (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 16:43:04 -0000
- The oil holes should *not* be in line or the oil pisses straight through the first rocker arm instead of building up back pressure so that all of them (hopefully) get some. The manuals are correct ev
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-03/msg00027.html (8,730 bytes)
- 186. Re: idiot light (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 17:01:47 -0000
- You could get a high-resistance as well as a full open-circuit, or a partial short, the motor could also seize. Probably a more comprehensive way is an impeller in the pump flow with a pulsed output
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-02/msg00058.html (7,563 bytes)
- 187. Re: Ho w many of us? (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 17:03:56 -0000
- /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list /// Send admin requests to majordomo@autox.team.net /// Send list postings to mgb-v8@autox.team.net /// Edit your replies! If they include this trailer, th
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-02/msg00059.html (7,653 bytes)
- 188. Re: Sweatshirts - two left (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:25:06 -0000
- Only for Americans, then ... /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list /// Send admin requests to majordomo@autox.team.net /// Send list postings to mgb-v8@autox.team.net /// Edit your replies! If t
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-02/msg00092.html (7,651 bytes)
- 189. Re: NOT MGB RELATED - Word problem (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 10:26:48 -0000
- I remember this happening quite regularly at one place I worked - implying there was no quick and easy way of stopping it. Just saved and reloaded a test document with a bit of text either side of a
- /html/mgb-v8/2003-01/msg00018.html (8,432 bytes)
- 190. Re: bad MGB, bad bad (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 12:49:40 -0000
- Vacuum leak? What's the condition of the emissions kit? This has pipes on the inlet manifold and if that is open to the atmosphere for any reason you will get a weak mixture, which is what it sounds
- /html/mgb-v8/2002-12/msg00007.html (9,405 bytes)
- 191. Re: MG V8 conversion (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:16:47 -0000
- If the factory V8 is anything to go by not only the top of the cross-member but the back of it too. It is so close that if the engine mounting plates are used on the wrong sides (they are handed but
- /html/mgb-v8/2002-12/msg00023.html (8,431 bytes)
- 192. Re: MG V8 conversion (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 14:59:05 -0000
- Hi Tony, My rack is more forward than above the crossmember, leaving enough of a gap to get your hand in - or a forearm stuck as a friend found out. The front face of the block i.e. where the front c
- /html/mgb-v8/2002-12/msg00025.html (8,937 bytes)
- 193. Re: Door Crack issue (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:33:50 -0000
- One of mine had this 12 years and 30-odd k miles ago, full story of what I did on the web site below, click on 'Spanners' and 'Doors'. IMO poor adjustment where the 1/4-light frame is too tight again
- /html/mgb-v8/2002-11/msg00003.html (8,357 bytes)
- 194. Re: Ford 302 mods and an Auto tranny MGB question. (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 09:00:35 -0000
- The MGB had the Borg Warner type 35 box as an option so no metalwork mods should be required for that. I'm visualizing a MGB /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list /// Send admin requests to majo
- /html/mgb-v8/2002-11/msg00010.html (8,656 bytes)
- 195. MG XPower SV (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:42:40 +0100
- http://www.mgcars.org.uk/news/news783.html /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list /// Send admin requests to majordomo@autox.team.net /// Send list postings to mgb-v8@autox.team.net /// Edit you
- /html/mgb-v8/2002-10/msg00015.html (6,959 bytes)
- 196. Re: Value? (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:28:56 +0100
- Change job, keep car. /// /// mgb-v8@autox.team.net mailing list /// Send admin requests to majordomo@autox.team.net /// Send list postings to mgb-v8@autox.team.net /// Edit your replies! If they inc
- /html/mgb-v8/2002-09/msg00006.html (8,016 bytes)
- 197. V8 block (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 14:14:26 +0100
- I was describing to a well-known engine builder problems I was having with my factory V8 cooling system pumping up with air. I described how I had tested the coolant for combustion gases as I suspect
- /html/mgb-v8/2002-09/msg00016.html (7,450 bytes)
- 198. Re: Plug ends (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 09:55:39 +0100
- I have been using the same set of leads, with what I would call 'standard' ends, for eight years and 65k miles with no problems. I believe the factory fitted heat-shields to the front and back plugs
- /html/mgb-v8/2002-09/msg00024.html (8,636 bytes)
- 199. Re: It's Alive------ Ok, sort of...... (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 18:33:02 +0100
- If the warning lifght came on *before* turning on the ignition then the alternator diodes are probably short-circuit. It will be for this reason that the alt got warm during cranking. A good alt is n
- /html/mgb-v8/2002-09/msg00038.html (9,706 bytes)
- 200. Re: MGB GT V8 History (score: 1)
- Author: "Telewest \(PH\)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 11:49:40 +0100
- 'MG V8: Twenty-one Years On' by David Knowles, ISBN 187200489. Currently out of print, the MGOC had a few copies signed by the author a while ago which was when I got my copy. The bit about finding i
- /html/mgb-v8/2002-08/msg00027.html (9,442 bytes)
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