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MaGic_GV
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 05/09/2014 : 12:11:18
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Originally posted by rustcollector
Ags,
Where do you get your information, is it a long time of chatting and discovery or are there books I should get.
I am sorry to say this but for me it is a great deal of chatting and discovery, though Blower is a jolly good start. None of the books tell you every thing you need to know, there are so many wrinkles! This forum is a life saver to those like me who have had their car for some time, maintain it themselves and have only dismantled the bits they've broken!
Malcolm Green's books are good, if you can find them, but usually expensive, (MG Road Cars Vol 1 (4 cyls) and Vol 2, 6 cyls)He has many others but these are the technical ones. There is lots in the Yearbooks and Bulletins too, and elsewhere on the web - see the 'links' bit.
Blower and this forum, plus lots of practice, is as good a start as anything!
Regards,
Graham
ps I apologise for butting in and answering on behalf of AGS, he may well say something completely different...
GVA
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Edited by - MaGic_GV on 05/09/2014 13:49:30 |
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gb
United Kingdom
205 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2014 : 19:35:40
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Hi Michael,
My PA (PA1836) was rebuilt in the 80's (or so I am lead to understand) and has a PB style dash. It has the tacho calibrated in RPM only and with the separate Speedo. The speedo also has the 30mph warning light which is to the rhs of the tacho..
Regards
Glenn
PA 1836
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BobH
United Kingdom
250 Posts |
Posted - 05/09/2014 : 20:11:42
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No need to buy Blower at inflated e-bay prices- its available brand new on Amazon at £34.
Now if anyone can show me where to get Malcolm Greens 4 cyl book.... |
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ags
United Kingdom
275 Posts |
Posted - 06/09/2014 : 15:11:54
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Hi Michael,
In the time which I have taken to respond everyone else has filled in the gaps which you needed to know. I have even been saved the trouble of photographing my tachometer and/or dashboard. (Thanks to all.)
For any body even just thinking about running an MMM car Blower is an essential purchase, my own copy is so old and tatty from constant use that it falls apart now so that I am seriously thinking about a new copy for reference purposes only. I acquired it first with my second J2 circa 1963 when the book was relatively new being a 1960 edition. The book has long outlasted the car which ended up with Richardsons and probably now resides in one of the Heathrow reservoirs. (The J was a red swept wing one. The chassis number and registration number have long departed me as I did not care to remember either after it threw a rod in the Slough area.)
The chassis numbers in my emails were extracted from the Parts List and the ratio details from Blower by comparing the specification lists. I may have talked about these things with numerous other people but my memory does not retain such things sufficiently well unless I check them. An example of this failure is the Thirty MPH warning light on the dash, which had slipped my memory. This item is of interest when you consider the date of the cars, as the then Transport Minister, Hore-Belisha, had introduced the urban speed limit of 30 in 1935 together with pedestrian crossings complete with their beacons. Naturally Kimber and Co. did not want too many of their more hot shoe drivers to be hauled up before the Magistrates!
More ramblings from
Andrew Smith MMM571
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rustcollector
United Kingdom
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Posted - 08/09/2014 : 21:22:29
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I just checked my steering and it seems I have the bishop cam type steering box hoorah ;-) my frame no. is P 1275 so that doesn't make sense, but definately bishop cam.
and then noticed that S&V do a replacement worm and state it is 8:1 so I guess they made an average between the PA and PB. |
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