- 101. Saw a TF yesterday (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:44:42 -0700
- Hi list, I saw a white TF or maybe TD yesterday while going down 72nd toward Tualatin, Oregon to pick up my father-in-law. I waved but he didn't. I guess he doesn't wave back to another OF in an Olds
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00110.html (6,472 bytes)
- 102. Re: 68B new with questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 08:32:17 -0700
- The "B" came with 155 SR 14 tires. Most were replaced after about 20K miles with 165 SR 14 steel belted. The list recommends everything from that up to about 195 70's, depends on who is talking. I'v
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00492.html (11,066 bytes)
- 103. Re: Tube shock conversion data (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 11:53:57 -0700
- Peter Burgess' book on "How to power tune MGB engines" has a chapter on suspension which basically indicates that you should renew the lever arm shocks and rubber bushings and springs to "like new"
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00500.html (13,707 bytes)
- 104. Re: Multimeter (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 23:01:41 -0700
- I've had a Radio Shack multi-meter for longer than I can remember. It's general purpose - AC/DC, Ohms, microamps and some other features that I never bothered to figure out. These are also referred
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00543.html (9,062 bytes)
- 105. Re: Fuel and Lever Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 11:35:46 -0700
- The lever by your right knee controls the air intake vent that comes in from the chromed vent in front of your windshield. Pushed all the way toward the engine shuts off the flow of air to the vents
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00634.html (10,848 bytes)
- 106. Re: SU HS4's conversion (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:42:51 -0700
- I don't know what you mean by overflow tubes. There are connections to the carbon canister for gas fumes from the gas tank and to take care of venting oil fumes from the block with the incoming air
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00641.html (8,248 bytes)
- 107. Re: MGCC Show (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 11:28:22 -0700
- Nice pictures. Your finger looked too clean to be working on your car. Centre list,
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00729.html (7,179 bytes)
- 108. Re: Question Re: Ethanol (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:01:11 -0700
- In Oregon, at least in the Portland area, we are required to have alcohol in the gas during the winter months. When they first started this, the mechanics had a field day as the alcohol cleaned out t
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00731.html (10,265 bytes)
- 109. Re: Red Mill British Car Day Pix (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:50:22 -0700
- Nice pictures. I haven't seen an AC Bristol for a long time now. We have a annual car show in the little college town of Forest Grove in Oregon called a concourse d'elegance (sp?) with lots of reall
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00739.html (7,682 bytes)
- 110. Re: "Project Drift" - Shipwright's disease (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:04:05 -0700
- After reading the Jag page disease list from David Littlefield's mail, I feel that I am becoming a Hypochodriac. Especially the Shipwright's disease. I just wanted to put a Pertronix ignition in, dis
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00752.html (9,961 bytes)
- 111. Re: Cracked Crank (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 21:46:04 -0700
- You might check with FASPEC British Parts in Portland. (503) 232-1232. If anyone around this (Portland) area has one they might just be able to get it for you. They are the closest thing to a real L
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00769.html (7,778 bytes)
- 112. Cracked block - (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 21:53:19 -0700
- Already deleted your e-mail or I would send directly to you. If you send me an e-mail of exactly what you need, I'll call FASPEC for you. It's a local call for me. Dave 72 B djw69@idt.net
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00770.html (6,207 bytes)
- 113. Re: Dual SU's (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:15:56 -0700
- There's a big British swap meet at PIR (Portland Int'l Raceway) toward the end of summer if you are in the neighborhood (300 mi. neighborhood that is). You can usually find just about anything you w
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00786.html (8,755 bytes)
- 114. Re: Burgess's rear seal (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:12:12 -0700
- "An uprated version from Rover is available, part number LUF10002 (Sherpa van)." Page 51. Don't know anything about it, but recently read the book as well. I thought it was interesting reading. numbe
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00791.html (8,769 bytes)
- 115. Re: Rocker Assembly (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 14:28:08 -0700
- You said Sykes machine shop. Is that in Alexandria? I had a Sykes machine shop put together my full race flat head Merc engine in about 1959 to put in a 1939 rag top Merc. Neat place, he had crank g
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00811.html (8,259 bytes)
- 116. Re: All electrics go but no vrooom! (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:49:07 -0700
- Did you check the wire to the starter that activates the solenoid when you turn the switch to start the car (the small wire)? It should only be hot when you turn the key to start the car. If it's ho
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00945.html (7,734 bytes)
- 117. Re: MGB and stereos (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:59:14 -0700
- I installed a cheap stereo with amplifier and 2 6x9 speakers on my 72 roadster a number of years ago in place of the original AM only radio that I got with the car. I put the speakers in the trunk.
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg00948.html (12,012 bytes)
- 118. Re: LEAKY NEW BRAKE MASTER CYL (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 23:40:21 -0700
- I had the same problem a number of years ago. I went through about 3 or 4 new master cylinders before I got one that lasted. I asked an lbc mechanic friend about it and he said that he occasionally
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg01003.html (8,036 bytes)
- 119. Re: No starter no vroom (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 10:59:59 -0700
- I'm not sure about the voltage to the solenoid. I would have thought that 12 volts was needed there as well. Why don't you connect the battery connection at the starter with the solenoid spade with
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg01031.html (8,822 bytes)
- 120. Re: 71 MGB trans dipstick? (score: 1)
- Author: "Dave Wood" <djw69@idt.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:22:31 -0700
- My 72 B has the dip stick behind the console under the dash and covered by a flap on the carpet on the transmission tunnel. Lift the flap and pull the rubber plug to expose the dip stick. It is a bi
- /html/mgs/2000-06/msg01147.html (7,780 bytes)
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