- 1. A Little piece extracted from rec.arts.poems (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 22:19:46 -0000
- dream of a British automobile By Antti Loude i am drinking tea here thinking about the car i saw today out of place in the undeground carage now i know i do not want no wife i do not want no dog the
- /html/mgs/2000-03/msg00595.html (7,011 bytes)
- 2. Fuel Gauge Problems (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 15:08:44 -0000
- Yes it all sounds very familiar, my first problem turned out to be the voltage regulator,I also fixed the replacement on the bulkhead the correct way up! My second problem turned out to be muck/verde
- /html/mgs/2000-02/msg00415.html (7,466 bytes)
- 3. Clutch chirp (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 20:45:44 -0000
- Bruce Phillips complains of clutch chirp when he extends his left leg. The night before I left home on a 1500mile excursion round Wales, I replaced my clutch slave cylinder which had been leaking bad
- /html/mgs/2000-02/msg00940.html (7,448 bytes)
- 4. 'Brake Safe' (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 16:34:30 -0000
- David Hill's comments about following traffic dancing on the Brake pedal reminded me of the 'Brake Safe' Triangular Amber rear lights which I had fitted to my new Mk II Cortina ( company car) in '67.
- /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00407.html (6,763 bytes)
- 5. Prince Charle's MGC GT (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 20:19:22 -0000
- The motor was on display at the November Classic Car Manchester ( UK) G-Mex exhibition in November, I think it was a restoration project by Leigh Technical College ( Leigh is not far from Manchester)
- /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00410.html (6,878 bytes)
- 6. M&G International Birkenhead (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 11:44:00 -0000
- Don Scott is looking for the M&G Birkenhead Website. Regret Don, they were my favourite local support & supply house for MGB 'bits' & were closed down by Moss back end of '99 .As a regular card carry
- /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00809.html (6,813 bytes)
- 7. Plugs & Points (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:36:44 -0000
- Although gaps get checked & cleaned at 3000 mile services ,at 10,000 Miles my diary reminded me to bin the old and install new plugs & points. We now have a new urgency in the way she fires up & take
- /html/mgs/2000-01/msg00810.html (6,580 bytes)
- 8. Boot Lid Blemish (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:28:27 -0000
- Someone, who shall be nameless, but who has been caught placing handbag on the bonnet of the B!!, recently when it was loaded to capacity, slammed the boot shut. Result, a minor, hardly discernible p
- /html/mgs/2000-01/msg01320.html (6,833 bytes)
- 9. Moss in the UK (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 20:50:30 -0000
- Whilst everyone is tuned in to the 'Moss' theme, can anyone tell me why Moss in this country recently closed down their subsidiary, M&G International in Birkenhead shortly after it had been refurbish
- /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00046.html (6,662 bytes)
- 10. voltage stabiliser (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 12:18:37 -0000
- Without a voltage stabiliser under the dash of your B, I suspect that you might develop an erratic fuel gauge . What I do not understand, is why this little box has 'top' stamped on it, as if the ang
- /html/mgs/1999-12/msg00392.html (6,747 bytes)
- 11. Poor old thing (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 23:31:29 -0000
- Eric Erickson in Southern Oz guided us to his web page, throwing his '68 B round the circuit. What no roll bar! Just as well he did not roll, or he would have been the 'poor old thing' We have rules
- /html/mgs/1999-11/msg00498.html (7,064 bytes)
- 12. Nervous '79B (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 10:59:32 -0000
- Have a critical look for wear on your steering rack. ! When it happened to me I first thought it was an endearing characteristic of driving a Classic car! Then it failed our annual MOT test as unroa
- /html/mgs/1999-11/msg00592.html (6,320 bytes)
- 13. Seat Belt problems (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 18:05:16 -0000
- Hi Steve, Recoil belts will lock up if you were parking on a hill, but I bet you've found that out already! Colin '67 B
- /html/mgs/1999-11/msg00660.html (6,640 bytes)
- 14. Leaded/Unleaded in the UK (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 15:41:14 -0000
- Trefor sounds very Welsh, in which case you have the same problem as In my '67 B I am using the Castrol Valvemaster ( from MGOC or Halfords) to dope each 25 litre fill of Super Unleaded ( 98 Octane),
- /html/mgs/1999-11/msg01190.html (8,405 bytes)
- 15. Re: Leaded/Unleaded in the UK (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:09:13 -0000
- Exactly my point Paul, but I do not see how one small addition can bring a tankfull back to 4* leaded quality ( I always thought that this had been standardised at 98 Octane) . Castrol even wrote me
- /html/mgs/1999-11/msg01242.html (11,172 bytes)
- 16. SU-HP Fuel pumps (score: 1)
- Author: "Colin Brown" <ccbrown@whitesea.co.uk>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 19:09:14 +0100
- Since the whole of the USA seems to be discussing diaphragm throw etc! may I throw in my copper. Left alone to do its work, I'm sure that the 'delivery flow smoothing device' is efficient & reliable.
- /html/mgs/1999-10/msg01116.html (7,050 bytes)
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