- 1. MGB gas mileage, mixture and tank size (score: 1)
- Author: kbedford@biggles.uk03.bull.co.uk (Keith Bedford)
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:42:21 +0100 (BST)
- Ever since buying my 77 BGT I've been getting a very poor 22 MPG (thats UK G's). I've tuned the carbs, and had them tuned professionally, changed points & condensor, plugs and adjusted tappets to lit
- /html/mgs/1997-06/msg01331.html (8,002 bytes)
- 2. re: Wits End (score: 1)
- Author: kbedford@biggles.uk03.bull.co.uk (Keith Bedford)
- Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 12:30:18 +0100 (BST)
- A friend of mine rebuilt an engine which wouldn't rotate - when I asked him how he'd torqued up all the bolts he said 'one at a time', ie from loose to full tight. When we loosened everything off and
- /html/mgs/1997-05/msg01006.html (7,680 bytes)
- 3. MGOC Show, Duxford UK. (score: 1)
- Author: kbedford@biggles.uk03.bull.co.uk (Keith Bedford)
- Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 13:16:10 +0100 (BST)
- anyone going to the MGOC show @Duxford this weekend? I will be there on Saturday. Cheers, Keith (77B GT, UPP536R). -- == Keith Bedford keith.bedford@uk03.bull.co.uk Bull Information Systems Maxted R
- /html/mgs/1997-05/msg01835.html (6,763 bytes)
- 4. MGB Brake problems (score: 1)
- Author: kbedford@biggles.uk03.bull.co.uk (Keith Bedford)
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 08:14:40 +0100 (BST)
- A little problem with my 77 BGT (servo) brakes... When idling applying the brakes causes a gentle but persistent rise in RPM, up to 2000 and still going. Today the edge has gone from the brakes - the
- /html/mgs/1997-04/msg00286.html (7,493 bytes)
- 5. re: 77MGB brake problems (score: 1)
- Author: kbedford@biggles.uk03.bull.co.uk (Keith Bedford)
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 09:08:48 +0100 (BST)
- Thanks to everyone who replied to my first post, but - My brake problems took a turn for the worse ... now the servo wheezes and the pedal goes soft. Not really driveable! I took the hose off - its f
- /html/mgs/1997-04/msg00342.html (8,117 bytes)
- 6. Re: mgs@autox.team.net digest #616 Thu Apr 10 02:05:01 MDT 1997 (score: 1)
- Author: kbedford@biggles.uk03.bull.co.uk (Keith Bedford)
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 12:33:30 +0100 (BST)
- Duuh me an idiot ... surely not, mind you I could be driving a REAL MODERN car for less than the B cost so maybe. Rest assured I wll ask more (stupid?) questions. I believe Nolan missed the referenc
- /html/mgs/1997-04/msg00415.html (8,399 bytes)
- 7. re:77MGB brakes (score: 1)
- Author: kbedford@biggles.uk03.bull.co.uk (Keith Bedford)
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:56:57 +0100 (BST)
- Not wanting to heat up the discussion but... Oddly enough the problem occured whilst driving. And the driveability problems were more the engine revs rising (interesting when in gear) or dropping (if
- /html/mgs/1997-04/msg00603.html (8,376 bytes)
- 8. Solex 45 on an 1800B? (score: 1)
- Author: kbedford@biggles.uk03.bull.co.uk (Keith Bedford)
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 13:07:29 +0100 (BST)
- whilst at the local MG specialist (see seperate thread on brakes) this weekend I was shown a modified 1800B to which the owner had fitted a 45MM Solex carb, very similar to a weber dcoe but complete
- /html/mgs/1997-04/msg00604.html (6,748 bytes)
- 9. re:007 (score: 1)
- Author: kbedford@biggles.uk03.bull.co.uk (Keith Bedford)
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 09:11:35 +0000 (GMT)
- I believe the bedpan reference was because the B was a convertible - secret agents don't like convertibles, they're too conspicuous, the driver can be seen (a double whammy for Bond - the bad guys ca
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00544.html (8,830 bytes)
- 10. re: Triumph Heralds (score: 1)
- Author: kbedford@biggles.uk03.bull.co.uk (Keith Bedford)
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 12:03:27 +0000 (GMT)
- Jim Boyd was asking about Triump Heralds, I owned a couple (twenty years ago. 1959 was very early for a Herald, mine were made in the mid-60's. If Jim's car really is 59 in might be quite rare. the
- /html/mgs/1997-03/msg01089.html (7,352 bytes)
- 11. re: SPEEDOMETER readings (score: 1)
- Author: kbedford@biggles.uk03.bull.co.uk (Keith Bedford)
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:41:04 +0000 (GMT)
- In response to the recent incorrect speedo readings thread some readers may be interested in the following table showing MPH @ RPM for later MGBs. It should apply to most B's (except earlier cars had
- /html/mgs/1997-02/msg01290.html (7,689 bytes)
- 12. Plug-gaps for 77 MGB (45D)? (score: 1)
- Author: kbedford@biggles.uk03.bull.co.uk (Keith Bedford)
- Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:45:48 +0000 (GMT)
- Can anyone give a definitive answer on the plug-gaps I should use for a 77B with original Lucas 45D (NOT electronic) distributor? Haynes says .035, and thats what I've used, but other sources say onl
- /html/mgs/1997-02/msg01291.html (7,065 bytes)
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