- 81. Re: Are MGB's Designed to Overheat? (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 12:30:30 -0500
- Greg: I can't say much about a 66B; I have a 75B tourer. However, I can say, it never overheats (touch wood). In fact, I have exactly the reverse problem: it won't make the heater heat atall (despit
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00489.html (8,464 bytes)
- 82. Re: Jammed Starter Motor (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 14:03:19 -0500
- Ditto what Ross said, plus: The starter motor will tend to magnetise anything in contact with it, from time to time, and sometimes the bendix gets 'stuck' by being so charged. Usually rocking it a b
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00579.html (7,155 bytes)
- 83. Re: 76B dash removal (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 13:58:41 -0500
- I consider it a better than even bet that the factory put the dash in a) before the seats were in and b) before the windscreen was in. You can console yourself that it's a knuckelbuster of a job, no
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00585.html (6,816 bytes)
- 84. Re: 76B Instruments (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:15:38 -0500
- Yes. I think MG switched instruments sometime around 77 or 78. Smiths guages were used in all the early B's I've seen, including my 75. Corey 75 MGB 'Rags' RD#373750
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00629.html (6,489 bytes)
- 85. Weird Whistling, Mk II (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:41:43 -0500
- I've got sort of an odd problem with Rags these days. She's being used = as a daily driver now, after many many months off the road, and I'm = starting to find out some quirks with her all over agai
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00630.html (8,598 bytes)
- 86. Re: Damn Cats! (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 13:57:33 -0500
- It's nobody's mogie, It's just red and flat and soggy, Yes, it's nobody's mogie now. I've now read more bandwidth on cats this week than I have on cars. Please send any further replies to flatcats@au
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00790.html (7,632 bytes)
- 87. Re: 74 MGB ignition problems (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:31:55 -0500
- Scott: One of the things I've found with doing large-system rebuilds, especially in the electrical area, is that betimes you get a bad part (new) and just don't realise it. My method for curing this,
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00838.html (9,644 bytes)
- 88. Re: Dratted cats! (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:43:34 -0500
- Ray: What a passel of problems you have! The solutions are simple, of course. Tying a knot in the radiator hose is NOT recommended. That's an old wives' tale. The true solution is, in fact, to PERFO
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg00840.html (8,613 bytes)
- 89. Re: FW: Spanner? (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 07:15:17 -0500
- ho we got from spanner to wrench, but I won't... 'Spanner' comes from an old saxon (ie, Old Low German) word meaning 'to fasten' [spoen, spaan ... depending on the branch]. 'Wrench' comes from an equ
- /html/mgs/1996-10/msg01293.html (9,440 bytes)
- 90. Badge Bar (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:01:11 -0500
- Fellow Fiends: Now that I'm reasonably assured of Rags' continuing performance (486 miles on the clock and still going!), the possibility once again looms that I may, at some point in the future, att
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00539.html (6,912 bytes)
- 91. Badge Bar TX (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 11:52:06 -0500
- Thanks to all who responded so promptly on my badge bar question. I'll check out the MGOC website and catalogue, if I can induce them to send me one. Cheers, Corey 75 MGB 'Rags' RD#373750
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00573.html (6,220 bytes)
- 92. [Fwd: Re: MG Ride height] (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:39:44 -0500
- X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Message-ID: <3242D6B0.7D02@fls.infi.net> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:38:56 -0500 From: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net> Reply-To: ragthyme@fls.infi.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macinto
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00702.html (7,448 bytes)
- 93. [Fwd: Re: It lives, it breathes, it is very loud.] (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:40:11 -0500
- X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Message-ID: <3242D544.2B6@fls.infi.net> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:32:52 -0500 From: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net> Reply-To: ragthyme@fls.infi.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintos
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00703.html (7,208 bytes)
- 94. Re: British Car Quality (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 12:19:01 -0500
- One thing I've found cheap and enjoyable, particularly since I haven't had much time, money, or ... time, to get to British shows in this area, is to attend some of our weekly non-British car shows.
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00823.html (8,176 bytes)
- 95. Re: Stubborn hood snaps (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:17:02 -0500
- <snip> Joseph: I assume you're talking about the lift-the-dots on the rear deck of the MG, not the snap fasteners inside the car. The problem is more likely to be with the portion of the lift-the-dot
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00864.html (7,421 bytes)
- 96. re: Going Topless!! (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:59:18 -0500
- Absolutely gorgeous night last night (Wednesday) here in Virginia. Crystal clear, temperature a brisk 52F with little wind and a full moon. Perfect MGB weather, in my opinion. I got to put on the lea
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00896.html (6,784 bytes)
- 97. Re: Boy I could use some advice (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:36:38 -0500
- When I first started restoring my own 75 B, a friend who'd been in the game far longer than I said, "Being realistic? These cars, including initial investment, are usually 5k to run well, 10k to run
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00943.html (8,488 bytes)
- 98. Re: 2017 miles, the journey begins... (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 12:53:56 -0500
- Godspeed! and may ye have St. Christopher (who I'm sure is still on the job, despite being de-canonised) ridin' as yer navigator the whole way! We look forward to the travelogue when you return. Cor
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00967.html (6,584 bytes)
- 99. Re: Rag Top Derby (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 08:54:11 -0500
- I'm not completely sure I understand; what exactly do you mean, 'put the top up'? --Confused and topless in sunny (cough) Virginia
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg00988.html (6,338 bytes)
- 100. Re: MGB History (score: 1)
- Author: ckr <ragthyme@fls.infi.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:19:51 -0500
- Greg: British Motor Heritage in England can handle the production, originality and shipping information side of your question. I know someone on this list has the address; all I have is the telephone
- /html/mgs/1996-09/msg01020.html (7,310 bytes)
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