- 221. RE: Silly part name (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 09:14:14 PDT
- Okay, it _was_ a typo (or lapse in memory), but what the heck is a "distance piece?" Denidze Thorpe thorpe@kegs.saic.com
- /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00688.html (8,843 bytes)
- 222. RE: Silly part name (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 12:16:21 PDT
- Not at all. I think it would be more fun to have people guess what and where it is. I would guess that a squab is the round rubber bulb at the end of the tube that hangs from the vent of a B. And plu
- /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00697.html (9,630 bytes)
- 223. grunion bladders (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 95 15:42:37 PDT
- Oh. That's very different. Nevermind. So where are an MG's bladders? There are two, kinda like tip tanks. Emily Latella latella@kegs.saic.com
- /html/mgs/1995-09/msg00707.html (6,343 bytes)
- 224. RE: AC (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 95 12:46:25 PDT
- When I was wrenching for a living at a Britcar dealership (Kearney Mesa British in San Diego), no MGB's came to us with AC, but we did kludge it onto some cars at the customer's request. There was a
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00113.html (7,951 bytes)
- 225. speaking of OD's (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 95 12:55:11 PDT
- With all this talk of OD's and what can go wrong with them, I realize that I know ABsoLUTEly nothing about OD's. I have a '72 OD tranny sitting in my garage waiting to go into a '67 MGB that I'm theo
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00114.html (7,804 bytes)
- 226. San Diego British Car Day (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 95 18:45:43 PDT
- Just in case no one else has or will announce this... The Sixteenth Annual San Diego British Car Day will be Sunday, October 1 in Del Mar, CA at the Del Mar Racetrack (and Fairgrounds). Take I-5 to t
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00143.html (7,984 bytes)
- 227. Re: MG Holiday Sweep Stake! (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 09:41:30 PDT
- Recently, my boyfriend and I drove my '67 B from San Diego to just shy of the California-Oregon border and back without automotive incident. At least there was no incident with *my* car -- we did st
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00209.html (8,172 bytes)
- 228. Re: 77B Won't Start (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Fri, 11 Aug 95 13:15:50 PDT
- Does your wife know she gets last billing after a MINIVAN?!? I always hang around when my car is being smogged if for no other reason than to tell the mechanic to stop leaning on my aluminum hood (b
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00216.html (10,251 bytes)
- 229. wrenching women? (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 95 10:46:56 PDT
- Just out of curiosity, are there any other women within the sound of my electrons who work on cars? Denise Thorpe thorpe@kegs.saic.com
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00283.html (7,182 bytes)
- 230. Re: greasing nipples (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 12:17:20 PDT
- My least favorite automotive expression has always been "bleed nipple" -- especially when people talk about putting a wrench on one and cracking it open. The alternative, "bleed screw" is not much b
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00329.html (6,796 bytes)
- 231. wrenching women survey (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 95 15:00:49 PDT
- According to my informal survey, there are five women who work on cars (Datsuns count) and post to the mailing list, and four wrenching women who are the significant others of people who post to the
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00399.html (8,082 bytes)
- 232. Re: wrenching women survey (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 95 17:18:25 PDT
- Paul Davis <mgbv8@cybersys.demon.co.uk asked: Me. When I wrenched for a living, if someone objected, I used to tell 'em, "Try to think of me as a lumpy guy." The only _mechanic_ I worked with who had
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00401.html (7,189 bytes)
- 233. Re: Dim Bulbs (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 95 10:36:48 PDT
- All you need to test the alternator output is a voltmeter. But if it were your charging system, everything else would be dim also. Yup. I had the same problem years ago with my `67 B (and still do).
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00438.html (7,304 bytes)
- 234. air tools (was Differential nut) (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 11:15:19 PDT
- Instead of using up valuable MG part storage space for a compressor, I use an air bottle. Whenever I need to blip off some stubborn part, I take my air bottle to the local gas station and fill it up,
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00483.html (8,431 bytes)
- 235. Re: Dual carb mod in CA? (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 95 18:47:18 PDT
- Some (abridged) recent comments about California smog laws: You probably didn't get much feedback because not many people do it. There's a severe penalty for trying to get a modified car smogged and
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00503.html (10,522 bytes)
- 236. Re: Rover V8!! (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 95 17:29:52 PDT
- Since no one else has answered the Buick part of this question, I'll tell what little I know on the subject. Some model (or maybe more) of '62 (and possibly '63) Buicks got the all-aluminum V8. Year
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00567.html (7,988 bytes)
- 237. Re: To all wrenching women (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 95 17:55:49 PDT
- Ray replied to Damit Dick: My boyfriend's only vehicle is a '91 Toyota pickup that never needs work. It's one of his most endearing traits. One "car guy" per household cluttering up the yard with car
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00568.html (7,480 bytes)
- 238. Re: Wedding Registry, was Wrenching women (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 95 11:21:25 PDT
- Because men let them. No eye-rolling here. China and silver and crystal and all that stuff that women pick out is meant to be used for formal entertaining. No one gives formal dinner parties anymore.
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00599.html (7,952 bytes)
- 239. Re: Solicitng MGB accident anecdotes (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 95 16:14:38 PDT
- Jay Tilton asked: It didn't happen to me, I didn't see it happen, but I saw the results. A brand new '79 Limited Edition B was towed into the body shop of the britcar dealership where I worked. The f
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00694.html (7,933 bytes)
- 240. Re: Midget does strange things (score: 1)
- Author: thorpe@kegs.saic.com (Denise Thorpe)
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 95 15:59:43 PDT
- Maybe it had too _much_ gas -- you were up in thinner air. There's your problem. MG's don't respond to good thoughts, they only respond to abuse and violence. Remember the "rapping the fuel pump" tr
- /html/mgs/1995-08/msg00695.html (8,119 bytes)
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