Hans,
The exhaust virus must be contagious because my exhaust broke this weekend
also while getting ready to go to an event. I patched it up to make it to
the event and I'm getting a new system this week. This must be a super virus
to make it all the way across the Atlantic:-).
I met someone from Holland at the Chicagoland MG rally in Abingdon yesterday
and on the way home someone from Ireland came up to me and said he had a 76B
"back home".
Monte
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Duinhoven" <h.duinhoven@planet.nl>
To: <MGS@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 1:08 PM
Subject: Battery issue solved - little adventure afterwards
> Hi listers,
>
> Thanks to Mark we can share our adventures again.
> I always like to read messages, where listers were succesful after some
> advises.
> So I like you to share my battery story.
>
> Yes I dared to get rid of two 6V batteries and move to one.
> So I requested some advises - most US listers came with replies about
group
> 26 type.
> This is not known in Europe, so I went to the Varta website Europe's
biggest
> battery manufacturer.
>
> In htier website http://www.varta.com/eng/ you can search for a matching
> battery with your car.
> UK car lovers really will like to home page showing a BBC (Big British
Car)
> Searching for MGB, there can be a matching type found. (6V)
> Looking to all specs, I discovered there are some important specs to look
> for:
> Size of course
> Capacity in Ampere - Hours
> But a very important one I never look at: maximum cold starting current.
> The latter specification with the recommended 6V battery had a value of
> about 270 Amps max.
> My new 12 V battery provides the GT with a 350 peak current!
>
> Nice thing to mount the new battery was, that it was so easy to move the
> ground terminal from the right battery box to the left one - there was a
> hole for this ready to be used!
>
> The day after the fix I went to the Dutch MGA Club for a tour.
> That tour was bad for the GT - my exhaust went bust - two studs on the
> engine mount were broken and the car was making quite some noise!
> So I had the exhaust replaced today.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> Hans Duinhoven
>
> GT back in order
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