- 121. RE: consensus (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 09:27:58 -0800
- Just to set the record straight. Webers once setup NEVER have to be tuned unless you change something in the engines internals. In fact the only adjustment there is on a Weber is idle speed. No mixtu
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg00110.html (9,353 bytes)
- 122. RE: consensus (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:28:02 -0800
- This has been my experience also!
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg00121.html (7,897 bytes)
- 123. RE: consensus (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:32:36 -0800
- not sure about the spit. but all the downdraft webers I've worked with on Fiats(don't even think about starting another thread on this one) and MGB's only have an idle screw, mixture is set with air
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg00122.html (8,796 bytes)
- 124. RE: Best way to become informed? (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:25:54 -0800
- Thanks, point taken. Just didn't want anybody to become gun shy, and afraid to ask a question in the future. Besides some of us don't bring our shop manuals to work to look up questions when we sudde
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg00123.html (8,809 bytes)
- 125. RE: MGs and Porsches (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 12:39:33 -0800
- side note: the 944 was designed and assembled by Audi near Frankfurt not by Porshe in Stuttgart, this is the main reason for the real Porshephile to scoff at the car. I think it is an extremely under
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg00124.html (9,686 bytes)
- 126. RE: Checking tranny oil - trapped fingers (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 13:08:57 -0800
- Hey! if this is true your pretty good at typing with one hand. BTW what if its your right hand. Do you have to drive the car facing backward?
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg00126.html (7,847 bytes)
- 127. RE: consensus (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:30:39 -0800
- I stand corrected on the Downdraft. Now I wonder what model downdraft I had? Will have to pull out the old receipt folder. Thanks.
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg00183.html (8,001 bytes)
- 128. RE: MGB Overdrive/Driveshaft (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 11:36:35 -0800
- there was a limited availability option that was supposed to drop you out of OD when you put your foot to the floor. I believe you already have the correct switch. just need to connect up the overdri
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg00189.html (8,262 bytes)
- 129. RE: consensus (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 14:33:22 -0800
- I suppose you could call it that. It definitely is not the tamer of the two styles. DCOE's are the sidedraft model and the big difference is that both barrels open at the same time vs. a DGV which i
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg00205.html (7,780 bytes)
- 130. RE: Air Compressors and Lurking! (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 16:10:11 -0800
- I have a 4HP sears compressor that if I add an extension cord of less than 12Ga. it sputters once and shuts off. So I assume that you are right about the 15-20 amps. But how is it then that they can
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg01006.html (11,719 bytes)
- 131. RE: Cheers and Farewell (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 12:32:28 -0800
- This is not the only list I've seen to have to do this to AOL'ers. Don't feel persecuted.
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg01065.html (7,339 bytes)
- 132. Dan Hughes day - Always look under the hood. (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:02:36 -0800
- OK I'll come clean. I had a 72 Midget while in the Army at Ft Hood, TX. I was driving to pick up a friend in Dallas (60 mi. north) when the engine started to backfire and run really sporadic. I'd had
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg01084.html (7,068 bytes)
- 133. RE: BOUNCE mgs: Non-member submission from [Bill Schleusner <b-schleusner@ti.com>] (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 13:46:32 -0800
- Maybe He didn't back down, but was just tired of his car being hit by broken pieces of spoke :)
- /html/mgs/1996-12/msg01201.html (7,508 bytes)
- 134. RE: brake drag (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 09:51:12 -0800
- I would suggest getting the drum turned. or at least swap drums on the rear and see if the problem follows the drum or remains on the same side.
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00227.html (6,877 bytes)
- 135. RE: Rover 100 (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 09:56:05 -0800
- OK! $950.00
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00229.html (8,523 bytes)
- 136. RE: MGB in Shop (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 11:19:52 -0800
- $4K Wow, could have had a whole factory new body for that with a few hundred left over. Just my tuppence worth. :0
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00236.html (9,350 bytes)
- 137. RE: Oversize Brake Pad for MGB (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 09:51:02 -0800
- Have we had any response to this posting yet?
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00387.html (7,829 bytes)
- 138. RE: Oversize Brake Pad for MGB (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 11:44:31 -0800
- here is what I got back After reading the last issue of Practical Classics magazine a story about uprating the MGB, they recommend the following for uprating the brakes, go to a Princess 4-pot calipe
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00600.html (8,021 bytes)
- 139. MGB Trannys (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 12:17:32 -0800
- Called a company in Ca. called Novus who makes a kit for replacing the MGB tranny with a Datsun 5 Speed. Anybody have any experience with this? Here is what I was told. They manufacture a bellhousing
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00604.html (7,164 bytes)
- 140. RE: MGB Trannys (score: 1)
- Author: Randy Rees <randyr@starwave.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:27:54 -0800
- I already have a OD for my street car, I was thinking about the race car, I don't want to blow up a good tranny racing when I may need it someday for the street car..
- /html/mgs/1996-11/msg00692.html (8,428 bytes)
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