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81. Midget 1500 Overdrive Project, day 1 (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 01:14:08 -0400; I promised a few people to take careful photos and notes of the process, so I started a new page here: http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/midget/midget_overdrive.html Day 1 is done and up there. So far noth; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00055.html (6,611 bytes)
82. Re: What did I do? (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 01:27:45 -0400; Anything improve if you shake the key? Maybe the "accessory" feed from the ignition is dodgy. The DPO might have sensed this and planned for alternate power from the light circuit. This also allows t; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00056.html (7,157 bytes)
83. Midget 1500 overdrive install, day two (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 01:54:51 -0400; Day two of the overdrive install is gone, the URL is the same: http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/midget/midget_overdrive.html Today's jobs were: - Cut the floorpan - Remove the middle section of the crossm; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00088.html (7,265 bytes)
84. Re: Loading up... How to prevent it? (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 16:49:56 -0400; What is your idle set to? If the air flow isn't fast enough, the fuel vapour will fall out of the mixture and collect on the walls of the manifold. Then sometimes it'll get sucked through in globs an; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00105.html (7,997 bytes)
85. Midget 1500 overdrive project, day three (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 17:17:01 -0400; Same link as always, just two new pics today: http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/midget/midget_overdrive.html A short day, but the engine is back in safe and sound. I had some helpers over so that made it e; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00107.html (6,694 bytes)
86. Midget 1500 Overdrive Project Day Four (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 01:51:59 -0400; Day four is done. The crossmember was made up and welded in. The rear tranny mount was fabricated and bolted up. That's about it for the overdrive stuff, the rest of the work will just be putting the; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00141.html (6,711 bytes)
87. Me whining about ebay for a change (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 19:24:10 -0400; Normally I love ebay, but this week I have some whining to do... How come everybody ELSE gets huge bucks for their ebay stuff, but I can't get good bids on decent stuff? This is the second time I've; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00195.html (8,168 bytes)
88. Midget Overdrive day five, now it's a twin SU 'thang! (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 04:25:22 -0400; Today was day five of putting it all back together. I did some OD stuff but nothing worth taking pictures of, filling it with oil and such. However, I did put up some pics and comments of the work re; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00216.html (6,926 bytes)
89. Re: Craziness... (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 16:33:06 -0400; At my local 'ship there is a T series MG with a big engine conversion. It's been so long since I have seen it I forget whether it was a TC or a TD, but the engine was a Jag XK engine. An ENORMOUS lum; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00284.html (8,717 bytes)
90. Re: Filling the @#%$& Gearbox... (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 16:04:47 -0400; Buy a couple of bottles of oil (more than you need) and use a thin clear hose up into the hole. You can buy these hoses, they are called transmission filler hoses or something and they screw onto oil; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00325.html (9,016 bytes)
91. Midget overdrive conversion days 6, 7, and 8. It works! (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 02:07:34 -0400; Well, in a nutshell, the overdrive works! Day 6 was spent doing the hose wiring, reinstalling the rad, that sort of thing. I didn't post that to the list, I took some pics but it really wasn't that e; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00361.html (8,053 bytes)
92. Re: 3 synchro overdrive prices (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:57:49 -0400; I agree with this logic, but draw a somewhat different conclusion. Generally when a part is available both from a supplier and from a private sale, the private sale is the "fair" price to me. It's th; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00904.html (8,804 bytes)
93. Re: Oh Sh*^ BTDT! (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:32:50 -0400; This can definately be done on a midget 1500. The pan BARELY fits between the rails to pull it down, but it fits. As expected, the front bolts are a pain, but possible. A good small crows-foot wrench; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00945.html (7,502 bytes)
94. Re: Oh Sh*^ (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 21:05:59 -0400; Did you originally see the metal on the dipstick? Is the tube around the dipstick intact? Any chance it is coming apart and you got it on the dipstick last time you pulled it? This is very easy to ch; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg00960.html (9,389 bytes)
95. Re: EGR plug (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 17:19:57 -0400; As mentioned, spark plugs work. What also works is an oxygen sensor, so put one in and you can monitor your A/F ratio as well! -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca ICQ #17432933; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg01058.html (7,038 bytes)
96. Another one for the fleet? (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 01:11:58 -0400; I picked up another LBC tonight. It's titled as a 1971 MGB roadster, but it's a split rear bumper that I suspect is really a 1970. Shockingly, it's less than 800 cars after the MGB I owned and restor; /html/mgs/2000-09/msg01084.html (7,605 bytes)
97. Re: Air Nibbler (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 08:47:18 -0400; They are truly excellent. You have to replace the tips occasionally and the dies VERY occasionally, so buy a few tips. About the only bad thing I have to say about them is that when working they make; /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00170.html (7,605 bytes)
98. Re: Air Nibbler (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 10:31:43 -0400; I agree that it probably wears faster, but the consumables are fairly cheap. Around here the tips are $4 CDN ($2.75US?) and you can use each one two or three times by rotating it around because it's; /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00179.html (7,669 bytes)
99. Re: Bonnet bondo (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:42:46 -0400; Good bondo will adhere there with no problems at all. -- Trevor Boicey, P. Eng. Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/ "I am disrespectful to dirt. Can you see I a; /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00221.html (7,281 bytes)
100. MGA spin-on filter adapter without hose? (score: 1): Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>; Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:53:12 -0400; Is there an MGA spin-on adapter that does NOT have the hose coming out of the side? I bought one at a jumble hoping it would fit my Magnette, but my Magnette has the oil pipe coming out the side. Loo; /html/mgs/2000-08/msg00225.html (7,125 bytes)

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