MG
The Classic Marque

Sorry, I was a bit ambiguous with my front/rear terminology.

Purple wires are at the back of the fusebox (away from front of the car), brown wires are at the front of the fusebox). By 'rear' purple and brown, I meant inner connections closest to the inner wing rather than the more easily accessible ones closest to the engine!

Sorry to hear Paul. I broke my back skiing a year ago and screwed up my nerves. Could not balance amongst other things. Just getting balance back now and think I will be OK to drive again later this spring. We'll see.

In the meantime my car has been in its little bubble pack. Its amazing how clean it stays in there. When I take it out after a year it will be exactly the same as when I put i...

Regarding Willie's use of the copper spray, it is great stuff - we use it to seal between the de-compression plate and the cylinder head on the supercharged K engine. Just the spray, nothing else.
Has survived coming up 20 years of hard use.

Wow. This had been a running sleeze/sex/trafficking story, with only suggestions of more important involvements.

But now it's blowing wide open.

How big is it going to get?

Will Mandy and Andy tell all?

Or will they fear for their lives if they do?

Epstein's death has always looked suspicious. Now it looks even more so.

After my broken hip in January, I never drove the TF last year! I start it up once in a while and let it warm up to circulate the oil. Set in a climent controled enviroment, so no worries there, plus polish it on occasion. Not sure what I'll decide to do with it. PJ

Good to see you yesterday Bernie

We use one of two head gaskets on the small bore engines. We use XRN(County) CAF070-C approx 2.7cc compressed or AF070PT which is approx 4.39cc depending whether we are trying to get cr up or down or happy with what we have got.
Sometimes we struggle to get cr high enough with the small bore engines with 202/295/206 or even the smaller 24.5 cc basic mi...

Alan--I agree Cometic gaskets are fantastic, I run one on our elan, ordered a special mls to suit the overbore size and the thickness I needed to get the compression right and the online ordering link said there would be a delay of 7-10 days for special orders---nearly fell over when it arrived here 4 days from ordering it from Cometic USA --
If you have a decent stud set the Cometic mls i...

Where can I buy a steering wheel boss for my Lempert steering wheel? I have a "modern" retractable steering column and, if possible, want to keep the original horn button in the center of the steering wheel.
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I use Payen gaskets, fitted dry these days. In the long distant past I would put a smear of axle grease on one side. So long ago I have no idea why. Just something that you did!
I avoid over torquing as that crushes the fire rings, transfers the clamping pressure across the whole head surface and actually reduces the sealing pressure on the fire rings. (Read up on Calver's advice on this)

You're spot on there Willy in the personality assessment. A lifelong source of fun. My dad also worked out what pushed my buttons, and was very good at feeding the need to know and repair. I have a photo of me at 6 months old, being wheeled in a pram..........I'm leaning over the side just watching the wheels revolve. Genetics???
I've never been able to adhere to the " if it ain't broke...