- 1. Tr*umph steering box slop (score: 1)
- Author: "Badeker, Andy" <ABadeker@tribune.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:34:50 -0500
- Ladies and Gentlemen of the List: Yes, ideally, this should go to the Triumph list, but I'm an MGA owner asking for help on behalf of my TR3-owning father, so maybe a couple of you mixed-marque famil
- /html/mgs/2001-04/msg00312.html (7,436 bytes)
- 2. Splines (score: 1)
- Author: "Badeker, Andy" <ABadeker@tribune.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:18:32 -0500
- Regarding wear on splines: I recall John Twist saying that a new splined hub, on an MGA anyway, will have a diameter of 2.45 inches and a scrap one will be 2.40, though I don't have those figures at
- /html/mgs/2001-04/msg00552.html (7,457 bytes)
- 3. Can't get oil pressure (score: 1)
- Author: abadeker@tribune.com
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 09:20:00 -0500
- During a long drawn-out oil change on the MGA that left the sump empty for a week, apparently the oil pump lost its prime. I pulled the plugs and spun the engine for longer than I have had to in the
- /html/mgs/2000-05/msg00914.html (7,363 bytes)
- 4. Towing MG (score: 1)
- Author: abadeker@tribune.com
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:25:50 -0500
- Hello Mike: I towed my A coupe, with wires, out to Colorado (from Kansas to first job) and my parents towed the same car to Chicago (also from Kansas, third job) without problems. We used one of thos
- /html/mgs/2000-04/msg00439.html (6,956 bytes)
- 5. MGA floorboards (score: 1)
- Author: abadeker@tribune.com
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:10:31 -0600
- I realize he is on the wrong continent as far as you're concerned, but Todd Clarke in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, sells full-size paper patterns of the floorboards if yours are too far gone to use for
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00044.html (7,312 bytes)
- 6. MGA battery holders & welding (score: 1)
- Author: abadeker@tribune.com
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:04:27 -0600
- Now that the topic has been raised, anyone have suggestions for how to remove old rusty boxes and weld in new ones without blowing up car and welder? The fuel pump and gas lines are so close to the l
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg01196.html (7,464 bytes)
- 7. drill-resistant weld (score: 1)
- Author: abadeker@tribune.com
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:59:12 -0500
- After the crazy itinerant welder stopped by and welded shut the stripped stud holes on my A's front shock mount (not the job I hired him for, but never mind), I've been trying to drill them out and
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg00920.html (7,621 bytes)
- 8. drill-resistant weld defeated (score: 1)
- Author: abadeker@tribune.com
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 09:55:44 -0500
- Thanks to all who offered advice on drilling through a welded-shut stud hole. I was intrigued by the suggestion to use a car battery and the carbon rod from a D-cell to ``spot-anneal'' the area, but
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg01295.html (6,527 bytes)
- 9. Stubborn kingpins (score: 1)
- Author: abadeker@tribune.com
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 09:39:19 -0500
- Hail, the all-powerful list: In my long and lingering front-end rebuild of a 1600 A, I planned to swap the superior kingpins in a set of 1500 knuckles for the somewhat chewed-up originals in my 1600
- /html/mgs/1999-08/msg00712.html (7,480 bytes)
- 10. MGA master cylinder (score: 1)
- Author: abadeker@tribune.com
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 14:13:12 -0600
- My sleeved master from White Post leaked. Billy there was completely willing to take it back and make it right, and did so, but I would have been happier not to have to wrestle the thing back out of
- /html/mgs/1999-02/msg00781.html (6,734 bytes)
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