Kai:
I seem to recall that someone on this list mentioned that Moss has
already put at least British Leyland and perhaps other British
manufacturer's parts numbers in cross-reference with their own. There
was an email on the list some months ago that suggested attempting to
schmooze a Moss employee for one of their "outdated" disks (since they
update them regulary (quarterly?)). Try Moss and see if they would share
this info with you to get you started. It would be nice if these things
were searchable and cross-referenced so it would be easier to identify
the proper part for our cars. I recently received British Wiring's
catalog, for example, which has BL codes, but doesn't tell me which part
(except for wiring harnesses) is proper for my MGA or MGTD.
Hope this helps.
David Littlefield
Houston, TX
On Fri, 11 Jul 1997 07:35:32 -0400 "Kai Radicke" <mowogmg@pil.net>
writes:
>Hi everyone:
>
>I started work again for my local BritCar shop (this is my second
>summer)
>and I got stuck with inventory work and computer junk. I was talking
>to my
>fellow co-workers (of 12 only 4 actually own an MG, the other 8 are
>american iron lovers) and we got on the subject of aluminum crossflow
>heads...are thinking being that the TR7 had an aluminum head an cast
>iron
>block. The TR7s head often cracked and welded itself to the block as
>a
>result of the iron heating up faster (or vice versa)...would this hold
>true
>with a new crossflow head? I don't want to spend $1200 just to find
>out in
>3 years that my head is cracked and that it is welded to the block.
>Any
>comments?
>
>Secondly, I had a great brainstorm for my website; but I want to know
>how
>useful it would be, before I commit my life to doing it. I would like
>to
>take every British Car Part # in the world (Lucas, BL, BMC, Vera,
>Moss,
>etc.) and organize them into ONE cross-searchable index. This would
>include Lucas lens #s (eg. L542, as well as 54571563 numbers). I hope
>to
>make the index in a way that if you search for a Lucas number you will
>also
>receive the original BL or BMC number as well as the new product
>number
>that Moss uses. I have access to every possible parts book ever made
>for a
>british auto mobile or parts company...and yesterday I found an
>original
>Lucas Training Manual. What do you think, and would you use it?
>
>Thanks,
>
>KMR
>
>Kai M. Radicke -- mowogmg@pil.net @ 1966 MGB --
>http://www.pil.net/~mowogmg
>
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