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41. Re: Who knows their stuff? (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 12:27:47 -0400 (EDT); <snip> at that time, BMC had become British Motor Holdings. When did this happen and= why? In 1966, Sir William Lyons decided to merge his Jaguar company into BMC. Lyons was the co-founder, controlli; /html/mgs/1997-05/msg00656.html (9,353 bytes)
42. Re: Locking up the engine (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 18:36:00 -0700; ==Reply== Second the air impact wrench. If you can get friendly with a truck tire shop, they will have a 1-inch drive impact wrench that looks like a chainsaw, with big jeezly sockets. One of them sh; /html/mgs/1997-05/msg01374.html (7,797 bytes)
43. Re: Update on '78 Midget ressurection-long (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:48:59 -0400 (EDT); <deleted> ==Reply== You might try it, but I'll bet it won't work cold. Reason? The Galaxie had an Amurrican carburetor with an accelerator pump. The SU doesn't. (I'm assuming you have SU's). So when; /html/mgs/1997-04/msg00966.html (7,726 bytes)
44. Re: Exhaust Port Air Injection (70 Midget) (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 01:36:14 -0400 (EDT); <del> WAG follows: I'm a little rusty on air pumps, but I'll give this a shot: on American cars I've owned, there's a vacuum-operated valve that opens and closes the air feed to the ports, to prevent; /html/mgs/1997-04/msg00991.html (9,203 bytes)
45. Re: Engagement of O/D (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 02:40:06 -0400 (EDT); . . . except that an automatic has a fluid coupling (torque converter) which absorbs some of the shock from trying to force the engine to slow down to match the higher gear ratio. Your O/D only has t; /html/mgs/1997-04/msg00992.html (8,889 bytes)
46. Cruise control (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 14:39:50 -0400 (EDT); one <snip> ==Reply== I used to have a VW Bus, on which I'd installed the world's simplest cruise control: a brick. Placed delicately but firmly on the throttle, it'd maintain 65 on the flat, 50 uphil; /html/mgs/1997-04/msg01425.html (8,210 bytes)
47. Re: Parts Suppliers (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 09:23:51 -0500; <snip> <snip> ==Reply== A few years ago I ordered a number of items to rebuild my MGA's front suspension. The MGB-V8 rubber/metal bushings were fine, but the steel spacers were so appallingly bad tha; /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00070.html (9,005 bytes)
48. WAS: Other French things; NOW, Heaven & the other place (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 18:06:27 -0500 (EST); <<snip>> ==Reply== Puts me in mind of the joke (with many, MANY apologies to European listers -- all in fun :^) -- What's a European's idea of heaven? It's where the English are the police, the Frenc; /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00474.html (7,759 bytes)
49. Re: Vacuum Troubleshoot (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 23:20:29 -0500 (EST); <<snip>> Have you done a compression check? It's possible you may have a burnt valve, or a holed piston; although since you said that 1 and 2 aren't firing; I'd suspect a burned head gasket between c; /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00540.html (7,983 bytes)
50. Re: Wooing Spouse's LBC Approval (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 22:48:09 -0500 (EST); Okay, about those two vent holes: Can anybody verify this story? I remember reading a few years ago that some time in the '60s, an engineer for one of the big 3 US car companies, who owned an MGA and; /html/mgs/1997-03/msg00722.html (9,257 bytes)
51. RE: 25 year smog bill/musings (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 16:14:21 -0500; <<snip>> ==Reply== I would never belong to a club that would have someone like me as a member. (Wilde or Shaw. I can never remember which, but I'm sure someone on the list will soon tell us!) Mark Mo; /html/mgs/1997-03/msg01296.html (8,121 bytes)
52. Re: Tyres & Smog (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 19:39:56 -0500 (EST); <<snip>> ==Reply== Actually, of course, there is. I also subscribe to the Jaguar list, and there's a discussion going on about making the engine-management system of late-80s XJS V-12's work right. I; /html/mgs/1997-03/msg01464.html (7,253 bytes)
53. Re: stuck clutch (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 01:38:31 -0500 (EST); Don: Hope you haven't pulled the engine yet. I'm assuming the engine runs, and the brakes are good? I'm also assuming you are near a pretty deserted stretch of straight road. Get the car pointed in a; /html/mgs/1997-03/msg01474.html (8,906 bytes)
54. Re: Names and all that sort of thing (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 01:27:47 -0500; I still like the Fairthorpe Electron Minor.; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00559.html (8,958 bytes)
55. Re: [NC] Car Theft (and Carol's secret Corvette lust!) (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 01:48:49 -0500; AHA! You didn't say what your "other" list was, but now we know! Having been there, I urge you to repent before it's too late! When I was 19, I traded my all-black, overdrive, hardtop TR-6 (okay, oka; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg00562.html (8,301 bytes)
56. British car swap meet in PA; ride/share expenses? (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 12:51:06 -0500; Is anyone from the NY City area or going through the NY City area going to the British swap meet in Norristown PA this weekend? The spouse has the car, so I can't go unless I can thumb a ride. Will g; /html/mgs/1997-02/msg01036.html (6,674 bytes)
57. Re: MG vs. Triumph (Wake UP) (My .02 worth) (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 16:52:17 -0500; Well, my first *real* car (we're not counting the '74 Dodge Colt my Dad insisted on) was a '71 TR-6. Black, black factory hardtop and a correct British Leyland (I'll go wash my mouth out with soap no; /html/mgs/1997-01/msg00490.html (8,572 bytes)
58. Re: MG comraderie (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Sat, 11 Jan 1997 13:53:20 -0500; a definite covered in an first before shot at. I love our I remember reading a reprint of that article in R&T sometime in the '70s. As I recall, it was titled "The Armwagglers Guide", was originally; /html/mgs/1997-01/msg00612.html (8,872 bytes)
59. Re: Distributor Rebuild? (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 11:27:44 -0500; Most machine shops or speed shops will have a distributor machine. Find a shop you trust, get the specs for your distributor if they don't have them (advance curve, etc.), and pay them the $15-25 the; /html/mgs/1997-01/msg00899.html (9,111 bytes)
60. Re: You Probably own an MG if: (Part1) (score: 1): Author: Mark Moburg <markmoburg@mindspring.com>; Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 11:01:22 -0500; But the problem is, my best friend asked me to be the godfather of his third son. Then I find out he's gone and named the boy Lucas . . . Mark Moburg; /html/mgs/1997-01/msg01175.html (7,013 bytes)

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