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The Classic Marque

@Arie,

Yes, I've just bought that kit, as I have the car on the ramp with the wings off I was hoping to fit it this week, but Mamba are on holiday, so it will go on next week.

I have been chatting to Malc Le Chevalier about the internals of Armstrong lever arm dampers and managed to amass a few set for a few pounds of eBay - I also have an MGB based kit car ( NG TC) that has leve...

Some interesting reading about radiator caps on Paul Hunt’s website.

https://www.mgb-stuff.org.uk/coolingtext.htm#radcap

Hello,

I bought a new aluminum radiator and it was delivered with a 1.1 Bar cap(16lbs). My MGB is equipped with a 7 lbs cap. Aluminum radiator has a small cap model and it was not easy to find a low pressure cap. After verification were equipped with 7,10, 13 lbs caps and 15 lbs for closed circuit. Can someone explain to me the reasons for these variation and if there any drawback to use t...

Thanks will check them out.

The first thing I did was replace the battery with new and nothing changed. I had the ground to engine issue a couple of years ago. I added a second ground as I couldn't tighten the original one and that fixed the problem. starter is fairly new. I had it out and bench checked. Has to be something on the ground side. All the lights work fine. I even pulled the plugs to make sure I didn't develop a ...

I wonder if aluminium or copper/brass (thermostat) acts a catalyst for the crystals to form. As its seems to be in those areas.
Yes Dave they are the crystals, in various colours.
I don't recall mixing antifreeze types.
Only use IAT blue ethylene glycol with distilled water now. Following advise from FBHVC in GB, for historic vehicles.

I’ve found some photos of the deposits.

The heater valve was quite badly corroded, despite only being fitted for four years.

Coolant will crystalize if the engine sits for a long time without being started and having the opportunity to heat up and mix within the cooling system: its basically caused by additives/chemicals in the coolant dropping out of suspension and solidifying. It can also be caused by mixing different, incompatible coolants, and while there are some coolants specifically recommended for aluminum radi...

Nigel

Terry Horler’s book ‘Original Sprite & Midget’ is a very useful book to understand the production history and standard specification of these cars from 1959 to 1979. https://www.herridgeandsons.com/original-sprite-midget This helps determine which mark you are looking at and to what degree it has still had the period correct bits on it for the mark and year from engine size, ...

Dr J.E.Davies
I haven’t seen or heard from Dr Davies in a while. I donated a dynamo for him to repair and sell on as he donates to the RNLI.

Having a damaged dynamo pulley that I wanted to fit to aDynamator I bored out the centre and sleeved but then needed to cut the keyway. Dr D kindly cut the keyway as he held the appropriate tooling. I would certainly have a go at restoring that re...