David Stecher wrote:
> Another problem that my hands are having... I'm trying to install a new
> choke cable. The DPO broke the choke cable and instead of puting it back
> where it belongs he put the new one in the radio console. When ever you
> pull it the plastic cracks a little more. Any hints on how to get my hand
> up under the dash to the back of the choke cable?
I went through this recently in my '74 MGB. I had the seats out of the
car,
and was lying on the floorboards and still could not get to that damn nut that
holds
the choke cable housing in! I had a used choke cable, so I swallowed my pride
and
pulled the cable completely out of it's housing. I soldered the ends of the
cable so
I had a lead 'bullet' at one end, then I filed the lead to fit inside the cable
housing. I pulled my old cable out of it's housing, and I pulled the housing
from
it's grommet in the firewall so I could manuever it better. I fired a shot of
grease
into the housing in the car, and lined up the new, soldered cable. After about
15
minutes of fidgeting, I managed to get it started and on it's way. I stopped
about
halfway so I could refit the cable housing to the grommet. The rest of the
cable slid
in W/O difficulty, and also fit the connector on the SU carbs without the
typical
fraying that most cables will give you.
Honestly, the worst part of this process was getting the solder to
stick (For
me anyway!) I wound up using a small torch to heat the cable. The filing
process
takes a while also, and you must keep one thing in mind: The solder should be
firmly
adhered to the cable and, or when you pull the cable from the housing, the
solder may
catch on something and stay in the housing.
On another MG-related note, I was perusing our college's children's
book
library, and came across two goodies -Sports Cars and Classic Cars. In the
Sports
Cars book, it compared various sports cars including MGB's and Midgets, other
LBC's,
American, German, Italian, etc. They gave some interesting and questionable
top
speeds for the cars. For a '73 Midget, the had it listed at 99mph. '73 MGB
convertible was 103mph, but the MGB-GT was listed at only 100mph. I thought
the
Midget speeds were optimistic, and the B-GT should have been higher...In the
classic
cars book, they had various old cars, but no pre-war MG's, no T-series either.
Then I
came to the "Modern Classics" chapter. In full color, there was a great
picture of a
Midget and a 'B, curiously also '73's. The caption said something like, "No
car can
call itself a classic if the MGB and it's younger cousin the Midget are
excluded."
Heh heh heh...The Vette and VW bug only got blurbs...
--
Michael S. Lishego
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Elementary Education Major,
English Minor, Class of 1999
R.A. of Winston-Salem Hall
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