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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1541
Buzz808 Thomas B Hawaii, USA 1973 MG MGB GT	Posted: August 14, 2012 01:44PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 46

Power washed the underside of the car. Need to scrape the undercoating off now. Prepping to remove a section of the outer wheel wells for repair. Separating the wheel wells from the fender will be a chore. It looks like the PO replaced part of the fender and welded it solid to the wheel well.

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1542
9146 rick dentel yardley, pa, USA 1970 Porsche 914 1978 MG MGB 2002 Mini Cooper	Posted: August 14, 2012 03:30PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 1,358

Installing the fresh engine and trans in my son's 78B.

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1543
Buzz808 Thomas B Hawaii, USA 1973 MG MGB GT	Posted: August 14, 2012 09:09PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 46

Started wheel well repair, removed section of fender and wheel well. Partially installed patch panel. Ran out of welding wire.

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1544
Swabby Mike Greeno Wichita, KS, USA 1972 MG MGB 1972 MG MGB	Posted: August 14, 2012 10:30PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 61

Installed repaired heater motor and started to rip out drivers inner sill snd both floorboarda

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1545
oily-hands Owen Frankland Stockton on Tees, Cleveland, United Kingdom 1937 MG TA "Numbum" 1971 MG MGB GT "The Bruise" 2002 MG ZR	Posted: August 15, 2012 02:01AM Registered: 3 years ago Posts: 5,176

Called in to visit some friends. grinning smiley

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1546
mdubash Manek Dubash Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom 1968 MG MGB "Odysseus"	Posted: August 15, 2012 07:26AM Registered: 11 months ago Posts: 226

Got the car back from a complete front-end suspension rebuild and:

- Replaced U/S choke cable (much easier if you take the radio out first)
- Replaced missing tonneau pegs
- Replaced ugly 1990s radio with modern (but retro-looking) unit that plays tunes from my phone
- Fixed non-moving heater air flap
- Refitted demisting hoses
- Washed the car

- An MGB is never finished. And all those replacement part deliveries give your postman something to do...
- If duct tape doesn't fix it - you haven't used enough duct tape

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1547
Mephiskapheles6 Corey Mason Nestleton, ON, Canada 1967 MG MGB GT "Hot RatZ"	Posted: August 15, 2012 07:58AM Registered: 10 months ago Posts: 73

Got the crossmember welded in. Next, fitting the frame rail reinforcements.

~C~

A.F.& A.M., C.Tech

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1548
dangerous-dave DAVE CHASE Puyallup WA., USA	Posted: August 15, 2012 09:04AM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 26

Changed the front shocks. and oil... devil smiley

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1549
tourtelot Douglas Tourtelot Seattle, WA, USA 1976 MG MGB "Heathcoat"	Posted: August 15, 2012 10:14AM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 463

We drove to Mt. Rainier on a beautiful sunny Northwest day. A place that is surely worthy of the term "awesome."

D.

Douglas Tourtelot
Seattle, WA
1976 MGB
18GB-U-H 85005

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1550
MG David David Witham Warwick, United Kingdom	Posted: August 16, 2012 06:06AM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 118

Finished soldering the Mega Squirt 1 V2.2 that I have been building. Now onto the loom and sensors for it. Going to run it for ignition, via dizzy and sigle coil, and datalogging only. Staying with the SU carbs.

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1551
Buzz808 Thomas B Hawaii, USA 1973 MG MGB GT	Posted: August 16, 2012 10:33PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 46

Drained the differential, removed cover, flushed with kerosene/autotransmission fluid mix.

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1552
Patioboater John Magee Wolverine Lake, Michigan, USA 1976 MG MGB MkIII "FUN MG"	Posted: August 17, 2012 12:43PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 169

Oy, vey, what a fortnight! First the fuel system died a couple weeks ago. So I installed a new fuel filter, which didn't solve the problem, since no fuel was getting that far. So I had had my garage install a new fuel pump. (The real culprit! The Mr. Gasket solid-state pump had died, no doubt a death hastened by some very dubious previous-owner wiring.)

Then as I pulled out of the garage, the tail lights died. Then after getting the tail lights going again, everything on the ignition-switched fuse died. And then after I replaced that, the directional signals died.

Agggh!

But all is finally sorted, and I'm back on the road. Now it's time for a wee shakedown cruise to make sure it all hangs together, then a wash and wax, and then we're off to the Dream Cruise tomorrow. Hurrah!

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/17/2012 12:47PM by Patioboater.

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1553
oldredsel Rick Crosby South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA 1959 Ford Country Sedan "Edsel Villager Station Wagon" 1969 MG MGB GT "Emma" 1997 Dodge Neon 2003 Chevrolet S10 2011 Subaru Forester	Posted: August 18, 2012 05:52PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 1,782

Went to MG Day at the Larz Anderson Auto Museum in Brookline, MA. About 120 miles on the trip odometer.

I posted some pics here:

MG Day at Larz Anderson Auto Museum, Brookline, MA PICS!

Cheers,

Rick

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1554
oldredsel Rick Crosby South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA 1959 Ford Country Sedan "Edsel Villager Station Wagon" 1969 MG MGB GT "Emma" 1997 Dodge Neon 2003 Chevrolet S10 2011 Subaru Forester	Posted: August 19, 2012 07:49PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 1,782

Jackie and I took the back roads (New Boston, Mattapoisett, Long Plain, Gammons, Perry Hill, Mary's Pond, and Fearing Hill Roads) to sup at Qdobas in Wareham. . . And I bet those roads just made Steve (sws615) smile. smiling smiley

On the way encountered a '58ish Corvette and actually got a thumbs up

from a driver of a Ferrari 308, and then met a TR3 and a RBB on the way back home. It was a good drive! smiling smiley

Cheers,

Rick

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1555
Buzz808 Thomas B Hawaii, USA 1973 MG MGB GT	Posted: August 19, 2012 11:57PM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 46

Preserved the outer wheel well with rust restorer and undercoating spray. Repaired the rust in the right rear fender with a patch and welded, just need to check and final weld. Found the same rust on the right rear quarter panel window like I did on the left. Makes for alot of small metal piece fabricating

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1556
Bankerdanny Daniel Palmer Chicagoland, USA 1972 MG MGB GT "Dudley" 1977 Honda MC Gold Wing	Posted: August 20, 2012 07:27AM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 1,055

Tried to see if a seat I found from a late 80's Prelude would fit (no). Rebuilt the right rear brake wheel cylinder and replaced the handbrake cable. My brakes definitely seem to work better (although initial pedal is still a bit soft and I finally have a working parking brake.

Endeavor to Persevere

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1557
JohnTF John F Northeastern Ohio, USA 1970 MG MGB 1970 MG MGB	Posted: August 20, 2012 07:52AM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 843

In reply to # 2146231 by tourtelot We drove to Mt. Rainier on a beautiful sunny Northwest day. A place that is surely worthy of the term "awesome."

D.

Nice, the clouds always seem to block the view when I come around, same with Mt. St. Helens, make sure the cover is on the MG when Rainier goes, that ash will scratch the paint. ;-)

Regards, John

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1558
Orange-77 Joe Torre Tallahassee, FL, USA 1977 MG MGB "Punkin"	Posted: August 20, 2012 09:01AM Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 12

In Florida we do things a bit backwards. In the summer we put the car up on blocks for annual maintenance and repairs (hopefully in an air conditioned garage). It's just to freakin hot to be out for a drive.

Over the weekend I started installing the new brakes: Slotted and cross drilled rotors, new calipers, new backing plates, new pads on the front and shoes on the rear. Next will be installing new seat belts and a new oil cooler. After that, new telescoping shocks? The list never ends.

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1559
newpaintbody David Snowder Napa CA, USA 1969 MG 1100	Posted: August 20, 2012 11:16PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 93

i installed my weber again, round 2!! and tuned it up, found out i need smaller jets! now what to do with the 1 3/4" SUs?

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Re: What did you do to your MGB today? #1560
Dwight Dwight McCullough Ham Lake Minnesota, USA	Posted: August 21, 2012 06:47AM Registered: 4 years ago Posts: 1,151

Uh, well, ya know, ya might find sumbuddy to buy 'em........

In reply to # 2150409 by newpaintbody i installed my weber again, round 2!! and tuned it up, found out i need smaller jets! now what to do with the 1 3/4" SUs?

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