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Hello fellow travellers on the car restoration highway.
Heres one for you.................
I have restored a frogeye Sprite that has only been fired up a couple of times since i finished it.
Whilst awaiting some final parts for my Sprint resto, I decided to crank up the sprite and check that all was well.
This car has had a nut and bolt restoration throughout. It has been upgraded ...

Try this:-
https://www.mgexp.com/article/mg-midget-wheel-bearings.html

"Up" to East Anglia this weekend :)

Anything interesting going on September 28th-29th ? :)

Yes, the housing without the filler (4.22 and higher ratios, noting Dave's point above) has the pinion axis offset further away from the crown wheel to make room for a bigger pinion head.
The cage is the same for both I think, but happy to be corrected if not.

Most of the new cwp units I have seen of late haven't had the setting markings. Would be sooooo helpful if they did. There is usually an ID number, which should appear on both crown wheel and pinion. I think that's the 4 digit number.

We did once find a new cwp "set" with non-matching numbers ....
only noticed it after having tried to set it up and getting nowhere. Should have l...

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Any tips please for fitting 'beehive' rear brake shoe retaining springs?

Also anyone know of a good source of these springs, as I am unsure whether the quality of my new reproduction ones is contributing to my fitting woes (hook end seems wrong shape/gap between tip of hook end seems too small to base of main beehive bit/not too sure about the springiness of wire used etc - do...

Nigel-don't know if this helps but when i've had problems i click on feedback on the opening page of this forum and send a message direct to Mike Plumstead and he fixes it

Just to add- I find bearing blue a pain to use setting up diffs
i mix orange ochre(any light colour would do it) with a touch of engine oil to make it around the consistency of paint and paint it onto a few c/w teeth sparingly,just enough to fully cover the tooth , load it up and turn it over a few times and the mark is really clear

Interesting with the markings on your pinion Most ot...

It would be nice to find details about rebuilding the BMC final drive but I haven't found those details. This details rebuilding a similar final drive in a Winget dumper, same axle used in my neighbours previous Morgan where we replaced the CWP and set it up, details here http://www.winget.co.uk/document/SERVICE%20%20MANUAL%20SALISBURY%205HA%20AXLES.pdf , likely needs copying and pasting due to th...

IIRC the early final drive casing with the additional filler is unsuitable but the later ones without are OK and the same as the 3.9 and 3.7. Note on the other thread the Bastuk price for one of the early pinion bearings, spendy, must be a low volume bearing now.