Hi Bud, your "expert" is out to lunch!!! The narrow or smaller
reinforcement on the bracket goes to the front of the car or toward the
bumper.
The wide, or broad, full width "V" slope goes to the rear.
Bob
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> From: Bud Krueger <bkrueger@ici.net>
> To: mg-t <mg-t@autox.team.net>; MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Subject: TD Radiator Support
> Date: Saturday, May 29, 1999 7:54 PM
>
> Help, please?
>
> I'm befuddled, but that's not unusual. The support member that the
> radiator mounts to in a TD can be installed in either of two
orientations. It
> is almost symmetric however, the radiator mounting holes are slightly
offset in
> the fore-and-aft direction. Another way of looking at it is that the two
> flanges with the hole for the crank are quite different in size. One is
a broad
> flange that tapers uniformly toward the center, the other is a narrower
flange.
>
> Can anyone tell me for certain which way the support should me
installed.
> Should the narrow flange be toward the engine or toward the bumper? An
'expert'
> told me that mine was reversed (narrow flange toward bumper). Today I
got a
> look at another TD and saw that it was the exact same way. TIA.
>
> Bud Krueger
> 52TD
> 77MGB
>
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