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341. Value at the end of the road. (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 13:05:06 -0600
Well, I finally started getting the digest again. A good thing to as I was starting to have withdrawal symptons. The topics spurred the following musings: It is true in general that, for a given age
/html/mgs/1997-01/msg01494.html (9,041 bytes)

342. 20k in a 10k car- why? (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:09:49 -0600
As I mentioned at the end of my last post, the person I bought my A from claimed he had about 14k into it. Whether that is true in this case is hard to say but, from the tone of the posts lately, the
/html/mgs/1997-01/msg01509.html (8,972 bytes)

343. MG-ness, electric cars, timing (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 15:49:58 -0600
Ever since I have gone onto the digest, I feel that I have lost the timeliness of my posts. I read something and respond only to find out that I a parroting the responses of many members of the live
/html/mgs/1997-01/msg01631.html (9,927 bytes)

344. Boot locks, Welders, A sills, Broken B's, B carbs, Earings (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 09:01:29 -0600
Hello all. Lots of questions to at which I can throw my opinion and see if it sticks. If I could only buy one welder, I would buy a wire feed welder. If you can afford it, but one with gas since it w
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg00938.html (8,732 bytes)

345. Welders- the advantages of having gas (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 09:57:36 -0600
The advantages of having gas on you welder go beyond allowing use on When you use a torch to cut steel, you actually "burn" the metal. The oxygen reacts with the metal and it dissapears. In fact, onc
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01039.html (9,267 bytes)

346. Stupid LBC tricks, oil octane (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:28:26 -0600
First to Geoff: You say that your supercharger feeds oil into the intake? Oil has a very low octane rating. The more you burn, the more the propensity to detonate. The two most stupid things I've don
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01047.html (7,633 bytes)

347. Condition ratings, Classic top 100. (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:30:16 -0600
When I was looking for an MGA, I went to the local Barnes and Noble and snuck a peak at a couple classic car price guides as well as looking at adds in Hemmings. These gave me a good idea about gener
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01319.html (8,338 bytes)

348. Silk purses and sow's ears (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:27:45 -0600
Just yesterday I was lamenting how I did not have my basement finished after four years of sporadic effort (work, family, school, LBC's). Last night I was downstairs working on the A's side curtains.
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01370.html (7,016 bytes)

349. Holding your nuts, bad parts (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 11:12:20 -0600
When I have had a tough time holding a nut / washer / spacer together in the past, I have used super glue and glued everything together. I don't know how that would work if there was much oil around
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01371.html (7,761 bytes)

350. Warm hearts, cold engines (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 16:12:07 -0600
Your car was flooded. I'll bet it fired a couple times then finally caught. It slowly spooled up on 2, then 3, and finally four cylinders all the while throwing out clouds of white smoke. This is a
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01457.html (9,525 bytes)

351. RE: Binding brakes: (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 08:59:48 -0600
Jarl's suggested cause of your A brake problems makes a lot of sense. If, after checking for this, you still have the problem, I would move on to check the following: I have had that problem in the p
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01772.html (7,330 bytes)

352. An LBC Christmas (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 09:40:35 -0600
Another Christmas has come and gone. We didn't have a chance to get the A out since we had a record cold for the day (-22F low, -8F high). Santa was good to the A, providing a new license plate (61 M
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01773.html (8,106 bytes)

353. Radiators, Paddy Hopkirk pedals (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 1996 16:22:41 -0600
The Paddy Hopkirk pedal attaches to the standard throttle to make heel and toe downshifting easier. It kind of wraps around the brake pedal. It also looks way cool. Concerning radiator soldering. I
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01843.html (7,100 bytes)

354. Harmonic balancers, crank questions (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 09:29:47 -0600
I was intrigued be a recent post concerning using an MGB harmonic balancer on an MGA. I have loads of questions on this general topic. I have heard that 1600's are prone to crankshaft cracking. Could
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01966.html (7,438 bytes)

355. sill replacement - my questions. -Reply (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 09:49:58 -0600
When it comes to welding, the best teacher is practice. If you can get some sheet metal the same thickness as what you plan to weld, play with it until you get comfortable befor attacking the real t
/html/mgs/1996-12/msg01969.html (7,996 bytes)

356. Ported vacuum, the final chapter? (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 08:20:04 -0600
I believe that the reason that catalyst equipped cars went back to proper use of ported vacuum and vacuum advance is that the catalyst did most of the exhaust cleanup so they could again tune the eng
/html/mgs/1996-11/msg00005.html (7,067 bytes)

357. Combustion theory (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 12:45:20 -0600
I have read a lot of questions on ignition system performance both here and on the MGA BBS. Since I spent a goodly portion of the sober moments of my college career studying internal combustion theor
/html/mgs/1996-11/msg00017.html (12,693 bytes)

358. MGA BBS (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 13:23:29 -0600
The MGA BBS can be found at: http://www.ipl.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum/MG/sub6/cmtlist.html There are other MG lists supported by this web site and I believe you can get there from the above address. I have
/html/mgs/1996-11/msg00018.html (6,613 bytes)

359. Ignition health and combustion (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 14:30:26 -0600
Its Friday afternoon and all of my coworkers are already sick of me for the week. I can't go home yet so I might as well torture those poor souls on the MG mailing list. As if ownign an LBC wasn't en
/html/mgs/1996-11/msg00024.html (10,640 bytes)

360. Combustion corrections: (score: 1)
Author: William Eastman <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 14:14:54 -0600
I believe that Simon is correct that a little low speed pinging is more efficient than no knock. He is also correct that you usually can't here detonation under full throttle. I appreciate his and al
/html/mgs/1996-11/msg00160.html (7,108 bytes)


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