- 1. J2 piston question (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 16:18:26 -0700
- MMM listers, My J2 has four-ring split skirt pistons +020. The engine probably has about 800 miles since rebuild fourty years ago...car reduced to "basket case" in 1968 by prior owner. The bottom oil
- /html/mg-mmm/2004-05/msg00003.html (7,809 bytes)
- 2. Reflector aluminizing (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 16:46:31 -0800
- The 120 inch diameter James Lick telescope mirror is aluminized....must be good! They have no way to glass coat the mirror. The mirror is re-aluminized every 7 years on site in a specal chamber in t
- /html/mg-mmm/2004-03/msg00067.html (8,297 bytes)
- 3. J type springs (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 13:19:10 -0800
- I asked my local spring shop to make new main leaves for my J2 as the trunnion has warn them down considerably. They said no as they didn't stock narrow material...just big Detroit iron type spring m
- /html/mg-mmm/2002-03/msg00004.html (9,236 bytes)
- 4. Re: aluminium-bearings (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 15:57:10 -0800
- I can't advise you on your project much, but I do know aluminum needs a good supply of oil...any interruption and it will gall quickly. Many OHC engines have aluminum towers with the cam running dir
- /html/mg-mmm/2002-03/msg00031.html (8,715 bytes)
- 5. J2 diff (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 12:17:47 -0800
- I have been reading with interest the posts on the 2-star aluminum nosepieced differential. The pumpkin on J2 #3343 is stamped 7/37 and has a cast iron nosepiece. The gears are marked 7/37 with a 2-s
- /html/mg-mmm/2001-12/msg00071.html (7,365 bytes)
- 6. EP lubricants (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:33:27 -0700
- Re: EP lube I was told by a local oil company chemist that EP (extreme pressure) lubricants made for hypoid gears have a lot of sulphur content to make them more "slippery". It is an inefficient gear
- /html/mg-mmm/2001-04/msg00036.html (8,544 bytes)
- 7. J2 flywheel (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 13:20:55 -0800
- I am having my J2 flywheel lightened as per suggestion in Howell's "A practical Guide to the Restoration of the J Type MG Midget" page 51. Some material is removed form the OD and the inside is machi
- /html/mg-mmm/2000-12/msg00025.html (7,335 bytes)
- 8. Ring gear shrink (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 16:09:03 -0700
- Hi Brian, About 20 years ago I machined off my J2's very warn ring gear and shrunk on a new one. The gear was purchased thru Barry Walker or Mike Dowley and had an instruction tag attached. I never t
- /html/mg-mmm/2000-06/msg00007.html (9,343 bytes)
- 9. Re: 6G Stainless Steel Supply Source (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Traill" <bill@clovermachine.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 10:58:38 -0700
- I made a set of stainless steel spokes for my TC in 1968 along with another TC owner, Jack Nadeau. This was a 'back-yard" project with hack-saw and hammer. I paid for metallurgical analsys on an ori
- /html/mg-mmm/2008-05/msg00010.html (8,071 bytes)
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