[Mgs] BGT problems

[Max Heim]

Hmm, have you checked the compression lately? One ugly possibility is a
blown head gasket.

Also, your timing seemed a little advanced, which can cause hot running. I
have to say I was curious why, if you thought it might be a timing problem,
that you bought a new distributor and set it at exactly the same timing as
the old one. I would have thought the logical first step would be to change
the timing on the existing distributor.


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 10/15/07 10:03 AM, RampantNM at aol.com at RampantNM at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 10/15/2007 10:23:46 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
> r.gosling at penspen.com writes:
> 
> Has the  radiator been flushed at all recently?  There could be any
> amount of  muck restricting the free flow of coolant.
> 
> Just one of a number of  possible remedies, but a cheap one to try
> first...
> 
> Also, what's the  drive like?  Free-flowing or stop-start?  In
> free-flowing traffic  the fan shouldn't need to do any work, the forward
> motion of the car should  be enough, so I wouldn't spend too much of my
> effort focussing on the fan  unless your car spends significant time
> under  20mph.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Radiator was flused an checked a few months ago when we changed the  engine.
> 
> The drive is mostly freeway.  First five miles has maybe 4 stop  lights, and
> 3-4 at the other end, but most is 55-70 MPH freeway.
> 
> One thing I forgot to mention yesterday, as I let off the gas and coasted  to
> a stop at those first few lights, I had 3-4 large backfires through the
> muffler, with great clouds of smoke from each one.  If I pushed in the  clutch
> and
> let it idle as I coasted to the stop, the backfires did not  occur.
> 
> John Twist set the carbs in April, so they should still be spot on.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Robert B. Houston
> 63 TR4
> 74.5 MGBGT
> 73 MG  Midget
> 
> b&Reminds me of my safari in Africa, somebody forgot the corkscrew  and for
> several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. W. C  Fields