MG
The Classic Marque

My TD came to me with no clock at all so I just totally cheated and fitted a Walmart quartz watch in the hole. Keeps quite good time and batteries only needed every year or so.

Without seeing what you have there Ian it is very hard to actually comment on what you have or do not have. Can you post a picture or two?

You don't want to go finer than 400, you need some surface roughness to hold oil to lubricate the seal - certainly do no polish it chrome smooth!

Thanks Frank, that is who I had in mind for speedo rebuild.

Might be best to just get it rebuilt as standard and then after making the “gearing changes” get a correction gearbox.

Or, maybe smarter, just love a clock that is right twice per day until the gearing is done.

What prompted this was reading about folks that rebuilt the clocks, but it might just be easier to do it all...

Thanks Chris. I'll try WD40/ brake cleaner with an old towel to see how much more they clean up, then maybe 400 or higher paper if needed (around, not across the journal, of course).

When we had the old F series Ford based ambulances here ,pads like that and much worse were very common
You'd get them come in with brake noise after a trip down the West and pull the brakes off and find all sorts like broken pads(backing plate), pads worn out that far that the caliper pistons had welded themselves through the plates , rotors worn down from the pads falling apart that badly t...

Well-- No-one has quoted the workshop book which surprises me a bit -------------

It says-
Fit a clear hose to the bleeder with the other end submerged in a container into the fluid being used, fill the reservoir, open the bleeder 3/4 of a turn and slowly operate the pedal in full strokes up and down ,maintaining fluid in the reservoir until a clear flow with no bubbles is seen in th...

It would have helped more if I'd have noticed a lot sooner, especially as I've blocked a hole before on mine when rushing to fit a stub stack - but fiddling with carbs is very distracting and makes you forget logical sequence (as if I could remember that in the first place).

I don't think that even Mort has a seat heater !!!! And he has done many, many mods for comfort and performance!!

Steve

It's been 50 years since I've driven my TD but I seem to recall that the muffler was directly below the seat and that it got pretty warm inside the cabin anyway. In the States though the passenger gets whatever benefit there is from the exhaust. Cheers
Peter TD 5801