Coupla thoughts on recent topics:
Scott Fisher:
<Don't bother with the spring compressor, as even the factory book
recommends the previous procedure to remove and install front coil
springs on MGBs. (Presumably also on As and TD/TF cars as well, which
used the same suspension.)>
*Similar* suspension, but not the same, for MGA's and probably not for
TD/TF's, either. MGA kingpins have large screw threads top and bottom
(so the front end is actually moving up and down slightly in the trunnions
when turning left and right). Ray Gibbons' method of removing the inner
A-frame pivots from the frame will work, however.
Chris Kent Kantarjiev:
<For those of you concrened about being seen in your LBC....>
Near the top of my list of (early) LBC upgrades is elimination of the dumb
hydraulically-operated brake light switch. Normally, by the time the brake
lights go on we're already pretty heavily on the brake pedal and the poor
soul behind has darned little time to react. Even worse, as the switch fails,
it requires increased hydraulic pressure to operate the lights.
OK, purists, it's sacrilege, but I'm nervous about being hit from behind, so I
installed a microswitch on my MGA, operated by the brake pedal arm. The
switch actuator rests against the brake arm (switch normally open) and the
switch actuates when the pedal arm moves 1/8 inch, long before any
hydraulic pressure is built up. It's comforting to know the lights came
on before the brakes do!
By 1965, when TR4A's were built, the hydraulic brake light switch was
gone, replaced by a switch operated by the upper end of the brake arm
near the master cylinder.
Is it gonna be SPRING soon? I'm tired of winter already!
George - all the lbc's are hibernating *in mothballs* - Haynes
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