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Name that hole !!!
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vlangan Vincent Langan
Warrenton, VA, USA   USA
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1963 MG C-Type Midget
Everyone loves a good test question...Here goes....I am restoring a 61 - 63 Midget...I had to pull the dash because there were wires and cables going everywhere except through dash. I am trying to determine which wire/cable goes through each hole. Now don't think I'm to foolish, I do know where the gauges and steering wheel go, its the other stuff. The only rule of the quiz is that you need to go from left to right.

Good Luck !!!

(No mechanics were harmed in the making of this question)


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Kunanative MK1 Larry G
Midvale, ID, USA   USA
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1963 MG Midget "Kunanative MK1"
Above Steering wheel----turn signal indicator light
Top three from left to right----starter cable, turn signal, choke
below turn signal---------------ignition

good luck!!

Larry

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refisk Rick Fisk
Frankenmuth, MI, USA   USA
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I like the other way for the top three left to right - choke cable, turn signal switch, starter cable. This puts the choke cable on the same side of the engine as the carbs and the starter cable on the same side of the engine as the switch and starter. smiling smiley

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PeterC Platinum Member Peter Caldwell
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Rick agree.

Is that dash wood?


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vlangan Vincent Langan
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Yes, the dash is solid wood. Not sure of the type of wood? It should clean up very nicely. I will post a picture when its done.

Vince

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AmishIndy Seth Jones
Glendale Heights, IL, USA   USA
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Make it easy for yourself and just take a peek in the appropriate drivers handbook or factory workshop manual. I have a lot of them on my website. I got this screen shot from page 16 of this pdf.

http://www.spridgetguru.com/AKD4021B/AKD4021B_GenData.html

The main page of this workshop manual is
http://www.spridgetguru.com/AKD4021B.html

you may also find this one useful
http://www.spridgetguru.com/AKD1775.html

and this one
http://www.spridgetguru.com/MGhaSalesLit_files/MG_Mdgt0461.pdf

and this one
http://www.spridgetguru.com/DriversHandbooks/AKD3898A.pdf


Seth Jones

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autocomman mark w
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Thats funny cause for the sprite everything is opposite from the midget dash. The heater switch is where the light switch is, but the top controls are choke, turn, start. If you do it any other way the cables wont reach, not even close. That just seems screwy to have heat reverse and start set up like that picture

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Perdido Gold Member Rut Rutledge
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Iirc, the catalogs and manuals are incorrect. Someone posted the correct layout quite some time ago.
Rut

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vlangan Vincent Langan
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Seth:

Now I know why they call you the "Guru". This is information that I, as a newbie, did not have and should possess.

Can you tell me if the dash is made of wood? I have seen many pictures that show colored dashes for the Midget?

Thanks for your input.

Vincent Langan

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Tim H Tim Hendy
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I am sure there's a reason, when the Mk2 Sprite came out, they swapped the positions of the choke and started cables, but I can't imagine what it was. I used BE cables on my Mk2 so swapped them back, but I may have to reconsider.

The good news for you is, it's really not complicated. If I can wire up a dashboard, anybody can smiling smiley

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AmishIndy Seth Jones
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In reply to # 2664252 by Perdido Iirc, the catalogs and manuals are incorrect. Someone posted the correct layout quite some time ago.
Rut

Some manuals and catalogues are incorrect, not all of them. The earliest MG midget factory manual is one example where some are mislabled. Later editions corrected the issue.


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AmishIndy Seth Jones
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In reply to # 2664277 by vlangan Seth:

Now I know why they call you the "Guru". This is information that I, as a newbie, did not have and should possess.

Can you tell me if the dash is made of wood? I have seen many pictures that show colored dashes for the Midget?

Thanks for your input.

Vincent Langan

Originally should have been stamped sheet steel covered in vinyl.


Seth Jones

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