- 221. RE: book (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Ryner" <pryner@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 08:39:31 -0400
- I have the Haynes and "The Complete Official MGB" manual. I haven't seen the workshop manual you are talking about but I've found over the years that it is good to have several different books on ea
- /html/mgs/2006-08/msg00159.html (6,926 bytes)
- 222. RE: I need to use/borrow a good bore guage] (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Ryner" <pryner@verizon.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 07:53:10 -0400
- The best way to check the clearance is with plastigage. It is a thin piece of plastic that goes on the journal before you put the cap on. After installing the cap and torquing to proper specs, the c
- /html/mgs/2006-08/msg00268.html (8,582 bytes)
- 223. RE: Dashboards (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Ryner" <pryner@verizon.net>
- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 09:39:41 -0400
- As I remember there are two small screws on the top at each end of the strip. Then as you say, you just gently pry it off. Pete That's a good question. I did mine some 15 years ago but I can't rememb
- /html/mgs/2006-10/msg00069.html (6,641 bytes)
- 224. Engine removal - front mounts (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Schauss" <schauss@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:03:19 -0400
- I have another question about removing the engine (1980). Do you unbolt the front mounts from the frame or can you leave the mounts bolted to the frame and unbolt them from the engine? The latter app
- /html/mgs/2006-10/msg00192.html (6,462 bytes)
- 225. RE: Bleed System (Speedbleeders) (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:10:59 -0600
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- /html/mgs/2006-12/msg00098.html (7,246 bytes)
- 226. Re: general carb icing question (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:04:37 -0600
- == Phil, It actually goes rich.... same as choking. Easily remedied with a bit of the foil hose run up from the exhaust manifold/header. It doesn't take much heat wafting into the air filter to elimi
- /html/mgs/2006-12/msg00160.html (8,127 bytes)
- 227. Re: general carb icing question (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:03:29 -0600
- == Many cars had a flap on their air filter intake which would direct some warm exhaust manifold heat on cold days, and not on hot days. Frankly, it's pretty easy to fit the aluminum tubing when it's
- /html/mgs/2006-12/msg00162.html (8,329 bytes)
- 228. Re: Motor Mounts (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Schauss" <schauss@worldnet.att.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 21:13:14 -0500
- I just went through this myself when I installed a rebuilt overdrive in my 1. You need to remove the starter before you pull the engine. Even then, you do have to rock it a bit to free the mounts. 2.
- /html/mgs/2006-12/msg00228.html (8,556 bytes)
- 229. RE: Here's an oddity on eBay (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
- Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:20:59 -0600
- C'mon Mr. Dodd....... supercharge it!
- /html/mgs/2007-01/msg00026.html (8,337 bytes)
- 230. Re: [Mgs] Insurance - "declared value" without usage restrictions (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Ryner" <pryner@verizon.net>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 13:27:36 -0400
- Both Hagerty and Grundy offer those policies. Neither have mileage restrictions and both have agreed value. Neither will let you drive your car back and forth to work. Hagerty requires that you have
- /html/mgs/2007-06/msg00079.html (8,692 bytes)
- 231. Re: [Mgs] Old Barn Find - Hoax? (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Chast" <pchast@francomm.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:12:27 -0400
- I wonder........ As you look at the pictures. The cars ane not uniformly dirty. Some have hand prints like they were recently pushed. The floor looks clean with no footprints. The walls and the heati
- /html/mgs/2007-06/msg00323.html (9,508 bytes)
- 232. Re: [Mgs] convertible top frame/hoodsticks (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter Chast" <pchast@francomm.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:50:15 -0500
- I'm for an easy way. Why not a pop-rivit nut. there are available kits of poprivit nuts in various sizes. Bought mine for about 5$ at (horrors) Harbor Freight. Pete Athens, NY -- Using Opera's revol
- /html/mgs/2007-12/msg00155.html (8,524 bytes)
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