- 1. Shock and Top opinions...Please (score: 1)
- Author: David Earl Brown <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:53:17 +0000
- Gentlemen (and Ladies), I'm feeling the pressure, as the Moss and VB winter sales are nearing their end, to make some purchase decisions. Most are no-brainers, but has anyone tried the Spax shock kit
- /html/mgs/1998-02/msg00938.html (7,566 bytes)
- 2. Re:Aligning Drive Shaft (score: 1)
- Author: David Earl Brown <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 07:42:48 -0500
- Hi Tom, I had a similar problem for over a year, a nasty vibration 50-60 mph. I of course checked the driveshaft by grabbing it and giving it a good twist, which told me the U's were O.K. Kept Suffer
- /html/mgs/1998-02/msg01068.html (8,126 bytes)
- 3. Mobil Gas and the MGA! (score: 1)
- Author: David Earl Brown <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 22:57:06 +0000
- Did anyone else notice that the mobil speedpass holiday ad (above their pumps) sports a caricature of an MGA? Too Cool. If someone else has mentioned this, I beg pardon.... Dave Brown 77 MG Midget (t
- /html/mgs/1997-12/msg00084.html (6,357 bytes)
- 4. Re: Midget King Pin Reamer ? (score: 1)
- Author: David Earl Brown <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 00:01:36 +0000
- FYI, it only cost me $50 to have Don at English Motors (NE Detroit Metro area) ream and assemble my King Pins. As I recall, the reamer is $200+. IMO, forget the reamer, unless of course you have 10
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg00247.html (7,834 bytes)
- 5. I bought a "bastard" MGA! Help! (score: 1)
- Author: David Earl Brown <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Sat, 08 Nov 1997 08:59:30 +0000
- Hello All, Well, I finally stepped up to the plate and bought something that looks like a "classic". But boy oh boy, when you hear what the DPO did to this one... Stats: 61 MGA 1600 with a (gasp) Iro
- /html/mgs/1997-11/msg00472.html (8,013 bytes)
- 6. Re: Midget Runs, then dies....Continued (score: 1)
- Author: "David E. Brown" <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 00:08:57 +0000
- Hello all, And thank you very much to everyone who sent suggestions! The problem is still unsolved, but definitely is electrical in nature. To reiterate: Turn Key, result: Car will *run* as long as s
- /html/mgs/1997-08/msg00426.html (8,160 bytes)
- 7. The Bobsled Rides again! Re: Midget Runs, then dies (score: 1)
- Author: "David E. Brown" <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 02:40:45 +0000
- Thanks Nory, As you, and many helpful others! suspected, it was indeed in the resistance wire circut where the problem was found. Very simply, there was an open where the wlg wire to the coil was spl
- /html/mgs/1997-08/msg00505.html (10,212 bytes)
- 8. Re: Midget Runs, then dies....Continued (score: 1)
- Author: "David E. Brown" <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:55:19 +0000
- My findings on the topic... The 77 Midget has a resistance wire, which you can find in a splice in the front wiring harness right in the center above the horns, and the other end lies in a splice wit
- /html/mgs/1997-08/msg00536.html (9,700 bytes)
- 9. No oil in Filter? (score: 1)
- Author: "David E. Brown" <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 16:18:38 +0000
- This one bummed me out... Anyone had this happen to them? I went to change the oil on my 1500 Midget (77) and when I removed the filter, after draining the oil, it looked like it had not had any oil
- /html/mgs/1997-08/msg00933.html (7,248 bytes)
- 10. Re2: No oil in Filter? (score: 1)
- Author: "David E. Brown" <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Aug 1997 22:57:38 +0000
- Hi Trevor, I will cut it open, I guess, but I have never had that happen before, and the car was only sitting about an hour before I removed the filter. OTOH, I have never used that filter type befor
- /html/mgs/1997-08/msg00960.html (8,112 bytes)
- 11. Re: Overheating (score: 1)
- Author: "David E. Brown" <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 23:52:16 +0000
- My first guess would be wrong or upside down head gasket blocking a critical passage. This happened to me on my first engine rebuild, but I blocked an oil passage and chowed my 76 Audi Fox's head. On
- /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01188.html (7,931 bytes)
- 12. Re: Re2: No oil in Filter? -Reply (score: 1)
- Author: David Earl Brown <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:02:31 +0000
- Of Course, Matt, Of Course, Unfortunately, I don't have the number in front of me, but the brand was CROSLAND, and it was obtained from a local chain of import stores, S&G Import car parts. For the 1
- /html/mgs/1997-08/msg01963.html (8,055 bytes)
- 13. midget runs, then dies (score: 1)
- Author: "David E. Brown" <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 1997 07:20:02 +0000
- Hi All, I have a 77 Midget 1500 with an unusual problem. When you start it up, all seems well. Drive it away and within a block or two it starts its dying/restarting cycle, that is, the tach falls to
- /html/mgs/1997-07/msg01350.html (6,768 bytes)
- 14. 1500 Midget to DCOE or not to DCOE (score: 1)
- Author: "David E. Brown" <debrown@concentric.net>
- Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 20:03:39 +0000
- Hi All, I'm considering going the Weber sidedraft route in replacement of my working, but just don't care for it Z-S. Your Pro and Con stories and experience will be of much help. (If there has alrea
- /html/mgs/1997-05/msg01379.html (6,531 bytes)
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