Post by cutterbuck on Sept 2, 2016 7:34:57 GMT
So I have been absent from these forums for a while now. I will flatter myself and assume someone might be interested in why. The answer is I had a Beerloom moment. We have all done it, had a couple of glasses of something nice too many, looked on ebay and then woken up the next day thinking "oh Canoe Spheres, the wife is going to kill me".
1978 MGBGT with a leyland special tuning front lip, an engine rebuilt 1,000 miles ago and an obscene cherry bomb exhaust
First problem a knackered alternator,
After this jump start I also discovered that the pot on the dash that controls the dashboard illumination is dead. Which makes night time driving interesting. its summer so we can worry about that later. While we are talking about electrics, the car came complete with a lovely MW/LW cassette player radio, (and a free pointer sisters tape), The cassette player is knackered - replacing it seems to be a dash out job. As for the alternator, it supplies some charge so it can stay for a while and be augmented with a trickle charger, when a decent unit appears on ebay from a breakers then I will swap it out.
This bit is the heater return valve. A knob in the cockpit tensions a cable which opens or closes the valve. The valve is knackered, closing it causes water to pour out, and in classic british design style it is situated directly above the distributor. New part ordered, I will fit it later, after it's not like the heater fan works so running with the heater on isnt really an issue.
The car then started marking its territory on the drive with an oil leak, if you think your 5 leaks oil then you have never owned a british car. As they say if there isnt oil under it - then there probably isn't any oil in it. Tappet cover seals replaced, a manifold and carbs off job so I paid someone to do it for me.
which brings us to today:
1978 MGBGT with a leyland special tuning front lip, an engine rebuilt 1,000 miles ago and an obscene cherry bomb exhaust
First problem a knackered alternator,
After this jump start I also discovered that the pot on the dash that controls the dashboard illumination is dead. Which makes night time driving interesting. its summer so we can worry about that later. While we are talking about electrics, the car came complete with a lovely MW/LW cassette player radio, (and a free pointer sisters tape), The cassette player is knackered - replacing it seems to be a dash out job. As for the alternator, it supplies some charge so it can stay for a while and be augmented with a trickle charger, when a decent unit appears on ebay from a breakers then I will swap it out.
This bit is the heater return valve. A knob in the cockpit tensions a cable which opens or closes the valve. The valve is knackered, closing it causes water to pour out, and in classic british design style it is situated directly above the distributor. New part ordered, I will fit it later, after it's not like the heater fan works so running with the heater on isnt really an issue.
The car then started marking its territory on the drive with an oil leak, if you think your 5 leaks oil then you have never owned a british car. As they say if there isnt oil under it - then there probably isn't any oil in it. Tappet cover seals replaced, a manifold and carbs off job so I paid someone to do it for me.
which brings us to today:
le sigh