- 1. Mystery Pin (score: 1)
- Author: Nels Anderson <nels@flightsim.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:33:09 -0400
- I'm trying to track down a leak on my 1953 MG TD and it appears that it's coming from something that I cannot identify. The spot is right at the back of the engine, in front of the clutch housing, in
- /html/mg-t/2007-07/msg00022.html (7,381 bytes)
- 2. Re: Mystery Pin (score: 1)
- Author: Carl French <leylandauto@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:38:51 -0700 (PDT)
- I am a mostly B series person but it is the same for us. The cotter pin was put into an intentional drain hole to keep it from getting plugged up with gunk. You are seeing leaking oil from the rear m
- /html/mg-t/2007-07/msg00023.html (8,008 bytes)
- 3. Mystery Pin (score: 1)
- Author: Nels Anderson <nels@flightsim.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:51:04 -0400
- Wow, took a whole 5 minutes to get a response :-) Thanks Carl and Ron. So, if I understand it correctly, it's actually supposed to leak from that spot and the pin vibrating keeps the hole clear so st
- /html/mg-t/2007-07/msg00024.html (7,290 bytes)
- 4. Re: Mystery Pin (score: 1)
- Author: Carl French <leylandauto@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:15:29 -0700 (PDT)
- Maybe I am wrong but I have always summed up rear main leaks as "oil is cheap" When you need to do something requiring pulling the lump deal with it then (so long as it is not affecting clutch action
- /html/mg-t/2007-07/msg00025.html (7,813 bytes)
- 5. Re: Mystery Pin (score: 1)
- Author: Dave and Liz DuBois <ddubois@sinclair.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:33:10 -0700
- Carl is both right an wrong. The cotter is just as Carl describes, there to keep the hole open. The rear seal is not a rope seal, in fact it is not a seal at all and if the rear main bearing and oil
- /html/mg-t/2007-07/msg00026.html (8,320 bytes)
- 6. Re: Mystery Pin (score: 1)
- Author: PopeyMike@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:19:21 EDT
- It is a pleasure to see this sensible discussion and not a panic remedy to take up arms. As all, I also have a small leak there that has existed since I first purchased the car 20 plus years ago. Ini
- /html/mg-t/2007-07/msg00027.html (10,224 bytes)
- 7. Re: Mystery Pin (score: 1)
- Author: Dave and Liz DuBois <ddubois@sinclair.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:44:38 -0700
- If anyone mentions that your car is leaking oil, just pull yourself up, and in an authoritative voice, tell the person that MGs do not leak oil, it is just marking it's marking it's territory! :-) Ch
- /html/mg-t/2007-07/msg00028.html (6,700 bytes)
- 8. Re: Mystery Pin (score: 1)
- Author: "Clive Sherriff" <clive.sherriff@ntlworld.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:38:34 +0100
- Over the years I've had occasion to drive a few very territorial XPAGs that would worship the ground on which they stood with large pools of engine oil from the rear seal. What I've noticed however,
- /html/mg-t/2007-07/msg00029.html (10,387 bytes)
- 9. Re: Mystery Pin (score: 1)
- Author: PopeyMike@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:16:13 EDT
- You are exactly correct that a little oil seep is a small price to pay for engine longevity - that was my point. Michael ** ** In a message dated 7/30/2007 4:40:20 A.M. Central Daylight Time, clive.
- /html/mg-t/2007-07/msg00030.html (10,416 bytes)
- 10. Mystery Pin (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Donahue" <bobmgtd@insightbb.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:23:34 -0400
- That's a 'normal' motor oil leak. The hole is to drain the motor oil that leaks into the clutch housing. The cotter pin is supposed to bounce around and keep the hole from plugging up. A teaspoon or
- /html/mg-t/2007-08/msg00000.html (7,220 bytes)
- 11. Re: Mystery Pin (score: 1)
- Author: "Carr&Edwards" <scvc70@epix.net>
- Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 11:11:24 -0400
- One more point of view on the oil-drip problem: While normally we regard Blower's Manual as reliable, we recently discovered one major difference between its recommendations and the factory Workshop
- /html/mg-t/2007-08/msg00001.html (8,255 bytes)
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