- 1. Re: Wiper Water (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 20:53:07 -0500
- The bag you describe sounds like the one used in my 74 MGBGT. Even about the same size. Tim .
- /html/british-cars/1993-06/msg00315.html (6,676 bytes)
- 2. MGBGT mystery ... (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1993 21:39:14 -0500
- Interesting how similar problems occur to similar cars. I had the exact same symptoms with my 74 BGT. I took the line free from the carbs and the flow looked fine. But my car would no longer start. I
- /html/british-cars/1993-06/msg00560.html (7,227 bytes)
- 3. Re: TR6 Door Locks (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 19:41:51 -0500
- About the shaking... Have you checked your tires? I tried for many years to find the solution to why my MGB would shake at 50-60 mph. I tried to have the tires balanced one time and the guy wouldn't
- /html/british-cars/1993-05/msg00093.html (6,942 bytes)
- 4. Re: TR7 Operating Temp (score: 1)
- Author: (Timothy Lyle Smith) <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 93 10:46:15 CST
- Have you checked the sending unit yet. I had the same problem with my 'B and it was just the sensor. Tim
- /html/british-cars/1993-05/msg00317.html (6,421 bytes)
- 5. Mirror (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1992 07:48:14 -0500
- I seem to remember somebody posting about needing a day/night mirror. Well now that I've checked, I have a day/night mirror for a 1972 MGBGT. Is this the needed item? Tim
- /html/british-cars/1992-06/msg00054.html (6,510 bytes)
- 6. Mirrors and the Near East (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1992 23:57:05 -0500
- Teriann, I will get the mirror in the mail tommorrow or Friday. I don't know how much of it you need so I will be sending the whole thing as it would be dismounted from the car, ie. it's coming with
- /html/british-cars/1992-06/msg00070.html (6,958 bytes)
- 7. Still waiting (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1992 14:44:50 -0500
- Have to try the other address as I'm still waiting for a call to tell me when to head out for the job. So my cars all ready, execpt for washing, to go with nowhere to go yet. Greased the front wheels
- /html/british-cars/1992-06/msg00120.html (8,570 bytes)
- 8. Re: MGB engine question (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 May 1992 08:56:48 -0500
- Sounds like the engine I started with except mine didn't clatter. Your oil pressure doen't sound all that good. With a fresh set of bearings in the bottom the engine can get 100 psi when cold and 75
- /html/british-cars/1992-05/msg00003.html (7,594 bytes)
- 9. Re: MGB tech questions (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 12:04:46 -0500
- **NOTE** All my advice stems from a '74 engine. Teriann J. Wakeman asks: Having replaced this seal twice and never using a magic tool I would say you don't really need one. No, the seals were not rep
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00221.html (11,549 bytes)
- 10. Plastic fans (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 12:15:30 -0500
- I don't know about that. I've turned my engine many times with the plastic fan. You just have to grab the blade at the base of it. Best have the iodine around to treat your knuckles with afterwards.
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00326.html (6,838 bytes)
- 11. Re: MGB tech questions (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 12:47:20 -0500
- The bolts holding the bracket to the body. When you take these out the engine might settle a little but will for the most part stay where it was. For alignment if used a small drift punch through one
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00328.html (9,120 bytes)
- 12. From one problem to another... (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1992 14:56:26 -0600
- It was payday last week and I decided that it was time to fix the BGT. I had left it sit after determining that the throw-out bearing had worn out again. I purchased a brand new bearing and headed ou
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00108.html (7,848 bytes)
- 13. Re: oil cooler, front valence (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1992 12:18:16 -0600
- Robert Jones scribed: Unless my adjuster cone is extremely worn there are 8 flats on the cone. 4 large ones and 1 between each of those. Tim
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00156.html (7,376 bytes)
- 14. Adjuster cone (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1992 09:58:11 -0600
- Ahhh! But I have looked at the little bugger. Having recently talked to my roomate about this problem the conculsion is that the peak is has been worn to a flat spot. Strange thing is that the "peak"
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00318.html (6,928 bytes)
- 15. Re: MG Electricals (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1992 09:25:04 -0600
- I'm not sure about your switch but you might find that the internals of the two switch types are interchangeable. The switches just snap together top to bottom or back to front depending on orientati
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00434.html (6,886 bytes)
- 16. LBCs in the movies (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1992 15:36:28 -0600
- There is yet another movie with a LBC. Sunday night I watched Protocol with Goldie Hawn, in the movie. She drove an orange 75+ MGB. First scene with it shows the car broken down on a parade route. Mi
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00542.html (6,757 bytes)
- 17. I'm back again (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1993 10:54:19 -0600
- Greetings all, I am finally back in school after 7 months of being a traveling construction worker. In that time I managed to put approx. 10,000 miles on my MGBGT. The MG managed to outlive an 84' Bu
- /html/british-cars/1992-01/msg00279.html (7,236 bytes)
- 18. The dignity of LBCs (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:06:09 -0600
- The long and short of it is LBCs have no dignity, or for that matter If you take an objective look at the cars, they're not any better than anything else on the road. There are cars that are more rel
- /html/british-cars/1992-01/msg00344.html (7,544 bytes)
- 19. Re: LBC Photos (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1991 10:35:43 -0600
- I haven't got a clue as to why a person would want a picture of their LBC hanging on the wall or in the wallet but, if there was any picture I would want it would be as follows. A night with a full m
- /html/british-cars/1991-12/msg00385.html (7,256 bytes)
- 20. Re: Brake Down/Up (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Lyle Smith <tsmith@plains.NoDak.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1991 10:38:06 -0600
- Rear disk conversion for a B????? Where, how get, how much???? Tim
- /html/british-cars/1991-12/msg00386.html (6,466 bytes)
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