- 21. Towing an MGA (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 11:53:37 -0500
- I had a custom tow bar welded up in about 1968 to tow my MGA (hardtop!) from Oklahoma to New York, behind a Volvo 144. Worked fine, the guy just took off the bumper and made the tow to fit across the
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg00821.html (6,522 bytes)
- 22. Several (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 12:29:25 -0500
- Concerning the Dan Hughes mistake, sheesh! You guys are really tough on him for a simple mistake that any of us could have made...and you let David Deutch get away with all his soapbox preachin' with
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg00941.html (6,774 bytes)
- 23. Now that we have all heard the bitchin' about the forced AOL (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 16:30:48 -0500
- Now that we have all heard the bitchin' about the forced AOL migration to digest and wasted all that bandwidth, can we please get back to technical stuff? Mark does a hell of a job for free, and the
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg01060.html (6,659 bytes)
- 24. Today, I got only the first page of Digest # 492, none of the (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 09:34:31 -0500
- Today, I got only the first page of Digest # 492, none of the actual messages. Anyone else have this problem? Let me know direct, please, at rlancaster@ntia.doc.gov Thanks.
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg01420.html (6,621 bytes)
- 25. Whining (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:47:32 -0500
- This is another of your rants that offends many. Stop and read what you write, or at least spell your insults correctly...its whiners not winers! Everyone puts and gets to and from their life activi
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01363.html (6,768 bytes)
- 26. MGB brakes (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 16:50:07 -0500
- Status report: I installed those new braided flexible brake lines and have been driving a lot here in Maryland (no road salt yet.) The brakes feel noticeably firmer, which tells me that the old hoses
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01366.html (7,322 bytes)
- 27. Re: MGB brakes -Reply (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:02:07 -0500
- salt Braided brake hoses are illegal in this country following tests which proved that the constant flexing caused the braiding to break away at the swages and become a very effective knife to cut th
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01566.html (8,615 bytes)
- 28. Short Mail Digest (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:24:16 -0500
- I have recently been switched to a WP 6.1 mail handler in our LAN. Since then, each digest I get is cut off short, the latest, for example cut off the last 15 messages! Since I don't like to miss the
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01577.html (6,693 bytes)
- 29. mgs@autox.team.net digest #466 Thu Nov 28 02:05:03 MST 1996 (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 08:38:43 -0500
- mgs-digest #466 Thu Nov 28 02:05:03 MST 1996 Collection of mail from mgs@autox.team.net list. Mark J. Bradakis, Digest Coordinator Send submissions to mgs@autox.team.net Send requests to majordomo@a
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg01775.html (7,133 bytes)
- 30. Flexible brake hoses (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 1996 11:37:39 -0400
- Thanks for the tips on those hoses. I will keep an eye on their ends for any problems. I don't drive the car except for fun about 3/4 of the year anyway. The problem of the rubber going bad inside i
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00064.html (7,155 bytes)
- 31. PCV (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 13:37:32 -0400
- I also have a 67 B, and rattled on about this almost a year ago. The thing is supposed to bring up the vapors from inside the engine and burn them thru the intake to prevent those vapors from getting
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00260.html (8,487 bytes)
- 32. Flexible brake hoses (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:17:44 -0400
- Just had a nice easy job replacing all three flexible brake hoses with new, braided steel covered ones. Many thanks to the priestess Denise for her suggestion of keeping pencils handy to insert into
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg01025.html (7,133 bytes)
- 33. Travelin' (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 13:26:00 -0400
- I will be in Santa Rosa, California, one hour north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco for work from 22 October through 1 November. Any listers up there? Any shows near there I could see, par
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg01026.html (7,101 bytes)
- 34. DC mechanics (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 12:12:01 -0400
- Been off 2 days. In the other direction, from Chevy Chase north, I have been very happy with British and American Auto Care. There are off of Route 175, near I95, below Columbia but above Laurel. Ca
- /html/mgs/1996-08/msg01058.html (7,041 bytes)
- 35. Door top rail covers (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 14:51:00 -0400
- Flame me if you must, but this is what I did, and I would like your comments, especially if you noticed the same thing. Upon removing the door top rails from my 67B, and removing all the ripped mater
- /html/mgs/1996-07/msg00989.html (7,940 bytes)
- 36. Cleaner (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jun 1996 12:15:13 -0400
- I remember that the list said NOT to use Armour All on roofs or tonneaus, but I forget what is recommended, besides soap and water to clean them. What is recommended after cleaning (this is the wax e
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00177.html (6,608 bytes)
- 37. Ernest Gilbert's PCV (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 14:14:55 -0400
- I too have a 67 MGB, now with a PCV. The DPO sold it to me with a rubber pipe from a small outlet on the valve cover, (it was the wrong cover), over to one air filter with an input pipe on the back o
- /html/mgs/1996-06/msg00623.html (8,323 bytes)
- 38. Ignition switches (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 12:43:59 -0400
- We have had a lot of reports of ignition switch failures lately, perhaps Lucas and Ford are using the same sub-contractor? At least the MGs don't seem to burst into front-end-eating flames. And, sinc
- /html/mgs/1996-05/msg00016.html (6,350 bytes)
- 39. Floor rust (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 13:47:11 -0500
- Well, Milo, here is another idea about floor rust, soundproofing, rugs. I have been on a trip, just catching up. For about 15 years, I have kept only 2 things on my 67 B floors...paint and rubber mat
- /html/mgs/1996-04/msg00303.html (7,354 bytes)
- 40. Paint still (score: 1)
- Author: Richard Lancaster <RLANCASTER@ntia.doc.gov>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:57:53 -0500
- Sorry to answer this so late, but our internet connection has been under water somewhere in Maryland...I did my 67B in a horrible taxicab yellow about 15 years ago, since it was hit by a guy that jus
- /html/mgs/1996-01/msg00620.html (7,111 bytes)
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