It's been great. No chirps or other signs of distress from the dynamo.
An unintended side effect, sadly, has been a large reduction in the CT
cat population. As they have dashed out into the road to follow the
intriging scent of tuna, they have been pressed by Triumphs attempting to
overtake the TD.
Bob
On Mon, 22 May 2000 08:53:31 -0500 "Ray McCrary" <spook01@home.com>
writes:
> So, Bob, how did the Tunafish oil work out??
> Ray McCrary
> "Speed is Life;
> of course Luck and Altitude
> are helpful, too."
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bob Howard" <mgbob@juno.com>
> To: <yd3@nvc.net>
> Cc: <mg-t@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2000 7:05 AM
> Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Re: TB lights
>
>
> > This is amusing. Here we are, almost 50 years after the cars
> were
> > built, puzzling over the changes to the electrical systems. As
> you went
> > to the Lucas parts book, I was inspired to go to the TD Service
> Parts
> > Book. It's not as helpful, giving only one MG part # for all
> years, and
> > it's not a useful Lucas #. I wonder when MG went to the larger
> > capacity dynamo--suppose it was when the regulator and fusebox
> were
> > changed? That shows at car #8142 in my book, which is earlier
> than I
> > would have guessed.
> > For further amusement, check out Horn-high note. What do you
> suppose
> > "Sundry parts, 2 sets, 17H5001" might have been?
> > In the parts book, the greaser is referred to as the oiler,
> unlike the
> > owners handbook. I read in a TSO several years back that the
> original
> > rear bushign was --forget the name but might have been oilite--
> that was
> > soaked in oil at Lucas for a week before installation. In service,
> then,
> > the grease was OK. But, the article pointed out, replacement
> bushings
> > that may have been reamed to fit, would have the porous surface of
> the
> > oilite bushing ground over so that the entrapped oil, if any,
> would not
> > be released to the spinning armature. Thus, the author observed
> that he
> > used oil, and that he made a point to put oil in the hole after
> every
> > long run of the car. I had the rear bushing of the dynamo
> replaced a
> > couple of years back. Before I installed the unit I stood it on
> end in a
> > tunafish can of oil, just to give that bushing more time to
> absorb.
> > Bob
> >
>
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