- 381. Re: Overdrive problem..... (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 14:33:17 -0600
- The only thing I can add, since I've never had an MG OD apart, is that most OD units have a reverse gear lockout to prevent the OD from being engaged when backing (which would seriously damage most O
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00314.html (8,903 bytes)
- 382. Re: small parts needed (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 14:34:13 -0600
- Wow!! Thanks Bud! -Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com -- Red Dirt Rangers (Rocky on piano): http://www.reddirtrangers.com JJ Cale Live (w/Rocky): http://www.rocky-frisco.com/calelive.htm The Luggage Fa
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00315.html (7,275 bytes)
- 383. Re: Got a result/Body shop in SFBA? (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 20:49:35 -0600
- Some do, many from the various competition efforts have them, plus an alloy bonnet too. I have seen both made absolutely perfectly by "panel-beaters" in Canada and the UK, literally better doors, tha
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00411.html (8,469 bytes)
- 384. Re: Carb question, grinding into third (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 21:12:17 -0600
- One of the things I scavenge when a salvage yard gives me pocketing rights is these little damper caps off SUs. Here was our shameless quick and dirty fix for the wandering caps many years ago: if it
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00413.html (8,339 bytes)
- 385. Re: Problem opening bonnet (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:52:17 -0600
- Might be worth a gentle try: try pushing the bonnet to one side by laying your hands flat on it, push down on it and then to one side and have somebody try the bonnet release; if that doesn't work, t
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00454.html (7,547 bytes)
- 386. Re: New Fuel Pump (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:36:22 -0600
- I have one of the American cube-shaped electronic pumps on the Victor. Night before last, I filled up at the local station 4 1/2 blocks from my house. I barely got up the (steep) driveway, since the
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00501.html (10,418 bytes)
- 387. Re: speedometer and odometer trouble (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:19:51 -0600
- The little drive gear on the odometer drive has begun slipping on its shaft. Usually this happens the first time when it's trying to go from 9999 to 10000 or some similar pattern; after that it will
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00530.html (8,914 bytes)
- 388. Re: New Fuel Pump (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:29:15 -0600
- Thanks, Paul! I would agree, but the "ifs" weren't satisfied in this case: I saw 12 volts at the pump terminals with them *disconnected*. The pump would not work when connected to the terminals, but
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00531.html (8,535 bytes)
- 389. Re: New Fuel Pump (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:33:21 -0600
- Thanks, Charles! I ran new wires. The situation with the ground on this car (Victor Special) is anomalous because it has a fiberglas body, so all grounds are tied together by cables. -Rock http://www
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00532.html (8,284 bytes)
- 390. OT from Rocky (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 11:46:19 -0600
- Upcoming "tour" info: Madison, WI and Urbana, IL have been canceled. Chicago and Kalamazoo are still on. http://www.reddirtrangers.com/tour/tourdates.html -Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com -- Red Dir
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00533.html (7,042 bytes)
- 391. Re: New Fuel Pump (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:59:31 -0600
- Thanks, Paul; this is so. On the other hand, not knowing what the resistance nor impedance might be across the terminals of a working fuel-pump of unknown manufacture, I just used the meter as a quic
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00589.html (8,759 bytes)
- 392. Re: Sound Deadening (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:22:59 -0600
- When I rebuilt The Luggage, my Cooper S, with a brand new body and subframes, I added the brown plastic sound deadening sheet to the roof, doors, back seat back, firewall and floor. It's a bit heavie
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00623.html (8,542 bytes)
- 393. Re: Sound Deadening (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:26:04 -0600
- That's one of the brands I used in the Mini. Works very well. -Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com -- Red Dirt Rangers (Rocky on piano): http://www.reddirtrangers.com JJ Cale Live (w/Rocky): http://www.
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00624.html (8,466 bytes)
- 394. Re: Minilite Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 20:04:37 -0600
- Well, he might have previously clipped a curb and the spokes might have been chrome-plated and/or misadjusted. If the car went into oversteer or skidded out and then, while the rear wheels were going
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00633.html (9,094 bytes)
- 395. Re: [Fwd: Time goes bye bye !]non-lbc (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 01:47:47 -0600
- I'm fairly sure the other more than half of the world that doesn't use our calendar couldn't care less. ;) (What is this, the Year of the Fruitbat?) -Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com -- Red Dirt Rang
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00637.html (7,816 bytes)
- 396. Re: Minilite Wheels (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 11:08:22 -0600
- Not certain, but that was the current wisdom back in the 60's, so I have avoided plated ones. ;) -Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com -- Red Dirt Rangers (Rocky on piano): http://www.reddirtrangers.com
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00650.html (8,490 bytes)
- 397. Re: Backfire through carb (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 02:44:39 -0600
- I'm pretty sure it's going to turn out to be just a lean mix. Is the choke working? Too rich mix can often cause backfiring through the exhaust, usually on over-run, but backfiring through the carb i
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00745.html (8,514 bytes)
- 398. Re: new rear harness and lighting trouble (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 04:42:15 -0600
- Might be a bad ground. Run an extra wire all the way from the battery ground post to the ground of the light cluster. If it starts working right, there's your answer. -Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.co
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00752.html (8,724 bytes)
- 399. Re: Installing alarm and actuators (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 05:00:27 -0600
- I prefer the relatively cheap remote-pager alarms from such as Radio Shack. I still have one I bought in 1979 and installed on a VW Camper-Van. It still works perfectly. I'm planning to mount it on e
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00754.html (9,417 bytes)
- 400. Re: Idling Electric MG's (score: 1)
- Author: Rocky Frisco <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 06:25:28 -0600
- Star Trek Tech Warning!!!!! There used to be a fairly popular acronym on the net: "YATI." It stood for "Yet Another Trechnical Inconsistency." :) Sounds like a sex manual written by an imaginative 12
- /html/mgs/2002-02/msg00807.html (8,341 bytes)
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