- 81. Re: nix Y2K in Mogs (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 18:07:38 EDT
- "...probably a 4/4 too...." You know, it probably is a 4/4; those modern V8s have who-knows-what kind of spooky electronic technology to keep all those cylinders from running into each other, and as
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00048.html (7,368 bytes)
- 82. Re: nix Y2K in Mogs (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:19:07 EDT
- To all - I joke about tractor engines (jokes are left over from my MG vs. my Triumph buddies) but hope no one thinks I'm putting anybody's car down. I need everyone's help to keep the 4/4 going and c
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00054.html (7,906 bytes)
- 83. Re: My kingdom for a decent reference book!!! (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:22:38 EDT
- For what my advice has been worth lately (and I was 1 for 3 on the last one) the fuel lines and lighting wires run down the INSIDE of the left side of my 4/4, and the battery cable runs down the INS
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00056.html (7,054 bytes)
- 84. Re: Who Needs Y2K When We Have Lucas! (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:24:38 EDT
- Kit - I think you're right about the efficacy of Lucas systems in general. My Lucas parts on any of my LBCs (like regulators, generators, motors,etc) last at least as long as their Delco or Bosch cou
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00070.html (7,686 bytes)
- 85. Re: More questions! (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:05:46 EDT
- Jeff - Re: "...seat dimensions....gaps...." I went out and measured the seats on my '66 4/4 (which has a slightly different seating system than yours, but is a two-seater), and found that my seat bas
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00081.html (7,970 bytes)
- 86. Re: Hub Puller (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:01:42 EDT
- << Why can't life be simple? Regards, Jeff >> Jeff - Life CAN be simple. You just buy a 1999 Dodge Neon instead of a 41-year-old hand-cobbled tractor-engined English car manufactured with a jigsaw an
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00126.html (6,628 bytes)
- 87. Re: Grease fittings (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 14:47:04 EDT
- Can anyone tell me what could be wrong with the top bushing area on my offside sliding pillar that would not allow grease to go into the fitting on top of the pillar? I can pump grease into the near
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00137.html (7,886 bytes)
- 88. Re: VSCCA Race (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 18:03:17 EDT
- John - Would love to come down to Virginia Beach to the races, but unfortunately have other plans because I didn't plan far enough ahead. Neither my Rough Rider nor British Car has them on the calend
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00139.html (7,073 bytes)
- 89. Re: Specs. please? (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:38:41 EDT
- We revolutionaries still have an awful lot of British in us. We revere British sports cars and motorcycles, we use a railway gauge that is traceable back through the spacing of Roman military chariot
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00150.html (8,373 bytes)
- 90. Re: Grease fittings (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:12:01 EDT
- RE: my inability to get grease into my kingpin; No, I've had the zerk fitting out and it's clear; I can pump grease right through it. The consensus seems to be that the small lube hole that allows gr
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00174.html (8,256 bytes)
- 91. Re: SPECS PLEASE! - did you forget about the original question? (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:17:03 EDT
- Chip - I agree. If you're the kind of person who wants straightforward, objective living, with clean quantitative answers, and efficiency and closure everything you do, THEN BOY ARE YOU IN TROUBLE OW
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00176.html (7,943 bytes)
- 92. Universal truths found under a Morgan (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:14:39 EDT
- Just finished a midnight shop session under the 4/4, installing bumpers, new oil pan, removing oil cooler, etc. There's bound to be a lesson in human behavior to be learned from this car. Summary - (
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00190.html (9,039 bytes)
- 93. Re: Correction on Re: Specs. please? (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 18:57:58 EDT
- << Don't believe everything you read in a book! On page 134 in my copy of "Completely Morgan ... 1936-1968" there is a caption that reads "Simple and to the point: this 1955 brouchure was the first t
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00200.html (7,985 bytes)
- 94. Re: Alignment of the bonnet halfs. (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 13:45:57 EDT
- Would probably be best not to give Triumph a hard time either, along with Ford, as long as we're being sensitive to the needs and sensibilities of Jaguars and 4/4s. Morgan has done well and uniquely
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00222.html (7,964 bytes)
- 95. Re: Universal truths found under a Morgan (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 18:18:33 EDT
- << Everyone knows or has personal experience with a used car that is just a complete screwup... Why does anyone mess up a completely simple thing on a car? Wouldn't it be a lot more logical to just r
- /html/morgans/1999-04/msg00225.html (8,061 bytes)
- 96. Re: Looking for some input... (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 22:52:40 EST
- The diagonal braces from the front subframe to the chassis like to get loose. Check the exhaust hangers (lots of flex in that frame) every once in a while. Crawl under and tighten the bolts holding
- /html/morgans/1999-03/msg00006.html (6,847 bytes)
- 97. Re: Seeing over the steering wheel (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 20:21:16 EST
- There's one small disadvantage to "that loose sheet of plywood" as opposed to a box... Say (just for a theoretical example, for talking purposes only) that the driver weighed 290 pounds (this is onl
- /html/morgans/1999-03/msg00089.html (8,325 bytes)
- 98. Re: One can only try... (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:01:49 EST
- On your wife's thinking "...that's a little wooden car...." 1) "That's one a them kit cars, ain't it?" 2) "Idn't that the same as a MG?" 3) "Is it got a VW engine in the back"? Lannis
- /html/morgans/1999-03/msg00188.html (7,816 bytes)
- 99. Re: One can only try... (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:10:30 EST
- You know, I'm trying to think........I've never met a woman who liked to drive a Morgan. My wife liked to double behind me on my BSA twin, but she considers the Morgan too uncomfortable by compariso
- /html/morgans/1999-03/msg00189.html (8,627 bytes)
- 100. Re: One can only try... (score: 1)
- Author: LSelz@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 00:58:35 EST
- I have the greatest and most understanding wife in the world. However, one day in 1984 I went out and spent $8500 on a new Electra-Glide without telling her about it or discussing it with her. Worst
- /html/morgans/1999-03/msg00194.html (8,232 bytes)
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