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Just realised I put this in the MGF forum, but any input from members would be helpful, I have reposted in MGB forum,
Apologies

Steve

Hi Out there,
I am currently restoring a 67 GT (UK), that is positive Earth. I am going to upgrade to an Alternator, and have the bits to do this, however, when cleaning up the engine area, discovered the loom has had multiple bodged repairs on it and is generally in poor shape. I have managed to get a loom from a 72 GT, with a view to fitting this as an upgrade, the advantages being that it i...

Someone paid $6,600 for this and MG TD’s are going for less than $10k on this site. Crazy.

Regards, Tom


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Hi Out there,
I am currently restoring a 67 GT (UK), that is positive Earth. I am going to upgrade to an Alternator, and have the bits to do this, however, when cleaning up the engine area, discovered the loom has had multiple bodged repairs on it and is generally in poor shape. I have managed to get a loom from a 72 GT, with a view to fitting this as an upgrade, the advantages be...

I have a couple year old Michelin 165-15 XZX on my TD. Made by Michelin in Serbia. Only weird thing-they had about a thousand " tire nibs" on them. No problem for the 4 on the ground. But I'm doing a show in a month and spent about half and hour with a belt sander to get them off of the spare so it didn't look hairy! I had them trued and balanced on the car, amazingly smooth. George

FWIW....the rims can handle a tire size up to 175 wide. I have Michelin ZX 175R15 tires on the car at present. However, it does not appear Michelin makes the ZX series any longer. I think there are a few other tire manufactures who do make a 175/15 tire. I chose that size tire to fill-up the fender wells a bit more since the tires are pretty skinny to begin with. No clearance issues using the...

I put Vredisteins on my TF 155R15. Think it was a mistake and should have put on the 165R15.

When you say "couple of mm" do you think you have something out of line?

Have you driven it since correcting the king-pin to damper alignment? Has the wheel angle driving in a straight line changed?

You could check the tracking, and see if it pulls to one side on a flat (no camber) level surface. Trakrite first one side then the other will probably show up any difference between s...

All done - I released the top of the ARB, and the whole removal did not take long. The pivot shaft is off and looks OK to me. I will take take to someone in the know for a second opinion

All that is left after this is the hub/king pin assembly or the cross member. We are only talking a couple of mm so its difficult to measure?

That would have given the game away. 😉


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