[Mgs] Engine install update

Ed Woods fogbro1 at comcast.net
Tue Aug 12 11:41:30 MDT 2008


Listers,

After putting new alternator bearings and brushes on the original Lucas 
alternator, I installed the unit in the '72 MGB. Guess I should have should 
have replaced the regulator too, for the ignition light remained on. 
Solution: a rebuilt alternator from Auto Zone. The Lucas unit they supplied 
was identical to the one I'd removed and beautifully done. It worked too! At 
$61.00 exchange with a lifetime guarantee, it's obvious that I should have 
gone that route in the first place. The only complaint I had was the metric 
heli coil used to repair the threaded hole for the adjustment bracket: 8mm x 
1.5.

The oil pressure gauge which worked two years ago, wasn't getting off "0". I 
bent my old body under the dash and removed the tach so that I could reach 
the oil pipe connection to the oil pressure gauge from the front of the 
dash. After loosening the pipe and starting the engine, still no oil flow. 
Turned out to be a solidly blocked pipe which I cleared with a piece of wire 
followed by compressed air. 70psi at idle running 30wt Brad Penn non 
detergent break in oil. I'm happy with that.

Now on to the new windscreen glass....

Ed Woods 


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