- 61. Re: Engine Oil (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 02:27:02 +0000
- Michael, While I don't know the reason why the oil spilled on your manifold didn't smoke, I can tell you that a car WILL still smoke while running synthetic oil. My wife's 166,000 mile Honda is fina
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01988.html (10,491 bytes)
- 62. Re: Old Fart question--NO LBC (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 02:27:02 +0000
- Rick, Thanks for the reply. I guess they just used the same arrangement used today, only with a physical switch vice a remote-controlled relay. I can answer your question about locking oneself out o
- /html/mgs/1997-10/msg01989.html (8,826 bytes)
- 63. Re: Can't go over 3000 rpm (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 1997 02:44:45 +0000
- This seems a little fishy to me, since one of the stated purposes of WD-40 is water displacement. Wouldn't make sense to have water in the product in any significant quantities. Sounds kind of like
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00000.html (8,244 bytes)
- 64. Re: MG Tunes (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 22:41:24 +0000
- Sorry, you lose the bet, although I don't have very much by them. They did most (if not all) of the soundtrack for "Risky Business". I just about wore that tape through. Remember "The dream is alway
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00182.html (8,076 bytes)
- 65. Re: '69 MGB value for Insurance purposes? (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:44:01 +0000
- Lawrie, Nobody ever said these cars were good investments. If your transmission blew today, and you spent $1000 buying and installing a new one, would it raise the value of the car? Probably not mor
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00329.html (9,992 bytes)
- 66. Re: MG Tunes (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:44:01 +0000
- Michael, I agree. Many of the young officers I work with have beaucoup expendable income, and they're always impressed with how inexpensive MGs are when I tell them. They also say that they regret s
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00331.html (9,569 bytes)
- 67. Re: High Quality Water Pumps (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:44:01 +0000
- Rich, I'm quoting from the Motorhead Diagnotic Sourcebook/Catalog: "The costlier cast iron late model water pump eem to last longer than the aluminum one." They sell the cast iron upgraded pump for
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00332.html (8,044 bytes)
- 68. Re: Variable idle (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:44:01 +0000
- Graham, I'm sure everybody knows the procedure you're referring to, but just in case, I should point out that Eric won't get very far spraying NON-volatile liquid around the carbs. Eric, use somethi
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00333.html (8,524 bytes)
- 69. Rebuild in Progress (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 00:56:23 +0000
- Well, I went by the mechanic's today to look at the engine now that it's back from the machinist's and all clean. I had no idea that the block would come out of the hot tank so pretty! Almost a shame
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00335.html (7,322 bytes)
- 70. Origins of "car bug"? (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 01:07:53 +0000
- I got to thinking tonight--Where did each of us get this love for tinkering with/restoring/driving old cars? No one in my family ever got the bug, if you don't count the two Fiat 850s my oldest broth
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00336.html (7,322 bytes)
- 71. Re: Garbage on mail list (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 00:31:10 +0000
- Rick, Actually, even an old fart like yourself is predated by electronic music. Remember the theremin? It's the device responsible for all that weird space music from the movies, as well as some of
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00439.html (8,314 bytes)
- 72. Re: British Car Appreciation (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 00:31:10 +0000
- Trevor, I believe this to be true as well. Even though they might not appeal to us, there are many cars that were popular during the 80's that will be considered unique collector cars to future gener
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00440.html (9,330 bytes)
- 73. Re: LBC Owner Qualifications (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 02:42:23 +0000
- <<SNIP>> Misa, A fire extinguisher was my FIRST post-MG-purchase acquisition. Three-pound dry chemical bottle in a quick-release behind the passenger seat. Of course, since I'm actually prepared, I'
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00442.html (7,088 bytes)
- 74. Re: (NC) mgs@autox.team.net e-mail delay (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 02:42:23 +0000
- My B.S. is in computer science and Engineering, but I'll be the first to admit that my knowledge of Internet routing is a little light. As far as the number of "hops" between the source of a packet a
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00443.html (8,563 bytes)
- 75. Re: youth vs. parents, clarification (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 02:42:23 +0000
- Barry, Where's your creativity? so, the parents are springing for safety items? Let's see, you should be able to get new shiny bumpers, some new headrests, a new collapsible steering column, or at l
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00444.html (7,829 bytes)
- 76. Re: British Car Appreciation (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 02:42:23 +0000
- Then they wouldn't buy. MGs aren't the only game in town. If you set the prices too high, you'd simply end up being the owner of the largest MG collection in the world. Intel only controls the price
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00445.html (12,432 bytes)
- 77. Re: Where's the love? (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 03:26:22 +0000
- Kai, I wouldn't worry about it too much. I, for one, don't take you seriously enough to get personally offended by ANYTHING you say. I suspect Trevor is the same way, or else he would have jumped do
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00446.html (8,402 bytes)
- 78. Re: Emissions Question (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 03:26:21 +0000
- I really don't think it's fair to say that an airpump simply "dilutes the exhaust". As I understand it, the air pumped into the exhaust helps complete combustion of some of the hydrocarbons that wou
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00447.html (9,752 bytes)
- 79. Re: British Car Appreciation (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 04:22:06 +0000
- Nory, I agree. There's an economics term that describes products such as cigarettes, where consumers will pretty much always buy the same amount, but they are very fickle when it comes to brands, of
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00448.html (9,474 bytes)
- 80. Re: British Car Appreciation (score: 1)
- Author: "Scott Gardner" <gardner@lwcomm.com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 1997 04:22:06 +0000
- I have to admit that's probably what got me into my MGB. I didn't know much about them when I bought it, but I had an insurance check from my VW Jetta, and saw the B. I thought, "That's a good-looki
- /html/mgs/1997-09/msg00449.html (9,188 bytes)
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