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161. Re: MGF (was Jaguar XK8) (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 96 20:20:21 GMT
I copied your text to the the MG Cars Enthusiasts Club Bulletin Board (http://www.mgcars.org.uk/) and got the following reply:- This is a paraphrasing of comments made by Stephen Cox at the MG Car Cl
/html/mgs/1996-10/msg01253.html (9,426 bytes)

162. Re: Abingdon (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 96 19:59:37 GMT
I visited Abingdon as part of a run a couple of years ago, and one of the "events" was the opportunity to travel the old road test circuits used by the factory. One of country lanes was used to check
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00107.html (6,892 bytes)

163. Re: Major Midget Electrical Failure (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 96 19:21:46 GMT
Did you measure this at the battery posts? If so sounds like a duff battery, but possibly not if the alternator is duff. Sounds like the alternator is just giving just enough output to run the engin
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00174.html (7,766 bytes)

164. Re: Fuel Cut-Off (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 96 19:31:57 GMT
Would someone who nicked a 'B really want a 'B? If so would they be wise to the dodge? If so would they carry a length of wire to jumper from the ignition to the pump? "I may be paranoid but that do
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00176.html (7,350 bytes)

165. Re: MGB or C Wanted (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 96 16:43:08 GMT
Anders Clausager in "Original MGB" says "late 67" to "August 1973", production dates, of course. PaulH 73 Roadster (HD&H) 75 V8 (DD)
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00202.html (6,894 bytes)

166. Re: More fuel pump questions... (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 96 20:05:40 GMT
diodes were used connected straight across the contacts, to oppose the normal current flow. I think the theory is that the collapsing magnetic field in the (usually inductive) load induces a voltage
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00399.html (8,883 bytes)

167. Re: Outer sill filler panel (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 19:08:30 GMT
At the lower front of each rear wheel arch, in line with the outer sill. The two long sides should have flanges, which face outwards. Regards, Paul Hunt.
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00401.html (6,826 bytes)

168. Re: MGB Engine Numbers (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 96 19:15:50 GMT
Anders Clausager in "Original MGB" doesn't list an 18V/886. He does list 18V-884-AE-L, engine numbers 101-10425, car numbers 410001-523002, Jun 76-Oct 80. This translates to single carburettor, emis
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00402.html (7,090 bytes)

169. RE: Stereo installation...? (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 96 16:27:15 GMT
I had a pair of of sub-woofers in the rear fire-wall of my roadster but they kept blowing the boot lid open. PaulH 73 Roadster (HD&H) 75 V8 (DD)
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00473.html (7,004 bytes)

170. Re: Bad Coil? (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 17:21:48 GMT
Who said "Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times is enemy action"? PaulH 73 Roadster (HD&H) 75 V8 (DD)
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00825.html (6,557 bytes)

171. Re: My B is back, and rust prot. advice needed. (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 96 17:17:33 GMT
I have read an opinion that Waxoyl is too viscous and bridges over seams leaving a small space for moisture to attack, and the person concerned preferred to block up the sill/rocker panel drains and
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00826.html (7,363 bytes)

172. Re: British Car Quality (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 96 18:53:38 GMT
Stopped to look over a TD parked in the street on Nantucket last week and another chap stopped to say he used to have two. By the way, LBC score was two T type replicas with non-MG radiators, one wi
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00868.html (8,069 bytes)

173. Re[2]: Bad Coil? (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 96 18:55:52 GMT
Correct! Give the man a carat! PaulH 73 Roadster (HD&H) 75 V8 (DD)
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00869.html (6,653 bytes)

174. Re: The Fast Lady (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 96 17:22:33 GMT
I can remember going to see that as a young teenager when it first came to Ilford (near London in the UK). I went on my own and because it was 'A' rated (must be accompanied by an adult) I had to beg
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00969.html (6,401 bytes)

175. Re: Boy I could use some advice (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 96 18:32:19 GMT
What do you want to do? If you would dearly love to own, restore and drive it then keep it until you CAN restore it, even bit by bit, and particularly if you can keep it under cover. Take the long v
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg00970.html (7,406 bytes)

176. Re: horn ground (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 19:59:14 GMT
Dunno, but mine didn't work either when I replaced the puny little moped horn with the pukka items. Explains why the DPO fitten a puny little ... I doubt if my resistance (well, the cars, you know w
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg01036.html (6,600 bytes)

177. Re: starters and a movie (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 20:50:26 GMT
Its that Goldfinger thing again. The very day after reading in the digest the reference to the 1962 film "The Fast Lady", I'm watching "The Car's The Star" featuring the Healey 100 and 3000 on BBC2,
/html/mgs/1996-09/msg01040.html (6,845 bytes)

178. Re: Hard starting warm engine (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 96 20:08:39 GMT
This green and sceptered Isle can go as high as 100F and as low as -27F ... but it can also snow in June and be warm enough at Christmas to turn milk, and not rain for two months or rain for thirty
/html/mgs/1996-08/msg00028.html (6,766 bytes)

179. Re: MGA problems : fuel gauge (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Aug 96 20:30:27 GMT
I've changed senders on a 73 Roadster and a 75 V8 and ended up with inaccuracy at both Full and Empty. Full is easy, there is an adjuster screw on the voltage stabilizer but this has virtually no eff
/html/mgs/1996-08/msg00036.html (7,470 bytes)

180. Re: Smog law protest (score: 1)
Author: Paul Hunt <on76@dial.pipex.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 96 19:59:22 GMT
do n to old by the hard I was more than a little surprised to see in a program on a UK TV program= on the Mustang recently that your President still owns and occasionally driv= es one that he has ha
/html/mgs/1996-08/msg00081.html (7,699 bytes)


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