- 141. Re: Pittsburg (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 09:52:41 -0400
- I hope to hear a trip report from you-all. According to John Jacobson, who I think is involved in this event, it is a lot of fun, well attended, and takes place in a very beautiful setting in Pittsbu
- /html/morgans/1997-07/msg00073.html (7,902 bytes)
- 142. Re[2]: hierarchy of waving. (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 18:30:21 -0400
- I wave at everybody. Barn animals. Everybody. What the hell. Chip Brown Re: hierarchy of waving Years ago I recall reading an article by, I believe, Tom McCahill (sp) in Mechanix Illustrated or one o
- /html/morgans/1997-07/msg00120.html (8,849 bytes)
- 143. Re: Windshield replacement (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:07:26 -0400
- I broke my windshield by putting the screws back in the frame wrong, so the first thing is to watch how the screws come out and put em back in the same way. I took the broken glass and the frame to a
- /html/morgans/1997-07/msg00128.html (8,196 bytes)
- 144. Making An SU Rich (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 09:24:21 -0400
- Okay, here goes. Some tune up questions for early Plus Four owners. As I concluded a tune up of my '57 Plus Four yesterday, which was completely problem free up to then, I found that I couldn't get t
- /html/morgans/1997-06/msg00009.html (8,455 bytes)
- 145. Re[2]: Making An SU Rich (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 18:00:39 -0400
- John- Thanks for your suggestions. I think you've uncovered a few sins of omission in my tune up. I DID start with the valves and a cold engine and end with the carbs and a warm engine, with the poin
- /html/morgans/1997-06/msg00013.html (11,696 bytes)
- 146. Bias Ply Versus Radials- The Morgan Shimmy Is Worse With? (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 15:35:25 -0400
- I replaced my HM Tourist (Avon)5.25x16 with 165r400 Michelin tires/tyres over the weekend. The great big shimmy that resulted therefrom is due, I suspect, to one of the tyres/tires not being complete
- /html/morgans/1997-06/msg00019.html (9,237 bytes)
- 147. Re[2]: Bias Ply Versus Radials- The Morgan Shimmy Is Worse W (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 07:59:12 -0400
- Steve- Thanks for your thoughts. I bought my tires from Coker, in Chattanooga, Tenn. They have a web site (http://www.coker.com). What helped me a lot was Bob Couch's suggestion that the 165r400 seri
- /html/morgans/1997-06/msg00021.html (11,343 bytes)
- 148. Intake Manifold Mods to add power (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 08:44:38 -0400
- Okay, here goes one more time. I remember when I was a kid all of the hot rodders used to polish and open up the intake manifold and cylinder head volumes, apparently to add torque and horsepower, on
- /html/morgans/1997-06/msg00043.html (7,519 bytes)
- 149. The Global Morgan Village (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 10:27:32 -0400
- Imagine a town where the only cars you see are Morgans, where on the weekends drivers are either out in their Morgans or hidden in their cave-like garages, armed with trouble lights, tool boxes and b
- /html/morgans/1997-06/msg00059.html (8,407 bytes)
- 150. Re: Delivery or collection (UK only) (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 11:55:52 -0400
- Those of us who can only dream about picking a car up on Pickersleigh Road and driving it home want to say to our colonial master cousins: Go pick the dam thing up yourself, shake Charles Morgan's ha
- /html/morgans/1997-06/msg00080.html (8,786 bytes)
- 151. Tire/tyre Pressure and Axle Crabs (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 12:10:52 -0400
- Ok, here goes. Having worked out my wheel shimmy, I am now happily tooling around Silvermine with about 28 pounds of air in my brand-new Michelin X-stop tires/tyres. Very jiggly at low speeds, handle
- /html/morgans/1997-06/msg00106.html (8,580 bytes)
- 152. Re: Oil Coolers (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 07:19:45 -0400
- Armando, I can't help in this regard, but would greatly appreciate knowing what set-up you end up with. I am very likely going to install one as well, below the radiator. Won't get to it until the Fa
- /html/morgans/1997-06/msg00161.html (7,127 bytes)
- 153. Re[2]: Morgans on TV (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Mon, 30 Jun 1997 09:10:12 -0400
- I am sure I speak for dozens of us who don't have the inclination to pay for expanded cable tv (which we in So. Connecticut must do to get the history channel) who ask that you make sure to broadcast
- /html/morgans/1997-06/msg00164.html (7,787 bytes)
- 154. Re: 7HA axle breather (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 10:17:23 -0400
- According to Fred Sisson's book, there is a 1/8" hole on the top or the side of the tube 7-8" (sorry, I don't do metric) from the wheel end of the axle. I didn't get home with enough daylight to veri
- /html/morgans/1997-05/msg00024.html (8,245 bytes)
- 155. Re:Lets keep Will Happy (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 09:34:12 -0400
- How I Came To Find My Morgan My search for a Morgan started in 1949 when a friend of my father's came by our house with a Model A roadster and I went for a ride in the rumble seat. Even at five I kne
- /html/morgans/1997-05/msg00043.html (10,744 bytes)
- 156. Re[2]: Refugee (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 17:04:10 -0400
- I have never replaced a TR engine head gasket, but I have been told a multiplicity of times by several different knowledgeable people that turning the engine over to pop the head gasket is a very bad
- /html/morgans/1997-05/msg00069.html (10,981 bytes)
- 157. Re: LUCAS Voltage Regulators... (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 08:07:21 -0400
- Is your ammeter showing a charge at idle but less at higher speeds? I found that I had a short in my generator where the armature was slightly damaged and basically shorted out at higher RPMs as cent
- /html/morgans/1997-05/msg00078.html (8,510 bytes)
- 158. Re[4]: Refugee (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 11:01:52 -0400
- The compression breaks the seal. My head gasket experience is limited to an Alfa 1600 Giulia that I had years ago that blew head gaskets for a while until I figured out what was what. It had sleeves
- /html/morgans/1997-05/msg00082.html (8,447 bytes)
- 159. A Final Word on Head Gaskets Decarbonizing (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 15:05:40 -0400
- Mr. Vandergraaf's citation on decarbonizing gaskets reminds me of a huge question: According to one of our respected Fairfield County Connecticut mechanics (who will remain nameless here, but is real
- /html/morgans/1997-05/msg00084.html (7,172 bytes)
- 160. Morgan +4 wheels, windshield seals: Questions and Searches (score: 1)
- Author: ebrown@ms.com
- Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 14:15:54 -0500
- (1) I am looking for four 16" pressed steel (not wire) wheels for my 57 +4. (I am in New England.) If you've one or more to sell, let me know your delivered price. I prefer wheels in good shape, will
- /html/morgans/1997-04/msg00007.html (9,677 bytes)
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