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Re: Need two measurements for an MGB trunk (boot) support...

To: MG List <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Need two measurements for an MGB trunk (boot) support...
From: Max Heim <max_heim@sbcglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:23:31 -0800
Perhaps the stay is correct, but it is just attached to the wrong point, on
either the lid or the lip, or both...


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 11/13/06 8:27 AM, Paul Hunt at paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:

> Maybe there is a problem with the hinges or something else that stops it
> opening as far as it should, hence the shorter stay, hence the 'proper' stay
> doesn't fit ... or maybe your spare is for the bonnet ...
> 
> There *were* two stays for the MGB boot, but the first was a plain rod which
> was changed to the telescoping type for the 71 model year and didn't change
> after that.
> 
> If I had my 73 here I'd measure it, the bonnet stay *is* a different item to
> the boot stay, so no point in measuring that on my 75 V8 GT.
> 
> PaulH.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> ... I discovered that
>> it is too _long_!




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