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"...if the tming chain goes, what can I expect?" Jason... The engine is not an "interference" motor with respect to valve/piston clearance so mechanically nothing much to worry about. It'll probably backfire a couple of times as it looses power and quits as valve timing is lost. BTW, as timing chains really wear, they usually "rattle their cage", making quite a bit of mechanical noise under there, especially to those you are approaching who are standing outside towards the front of the car. They usually last a good, long time, though. Cap'n. Bob '60 :{) PilotRob@... 23420... MORE
David, a really nice description of your holiday, and all the places you visited. I recognise virtually all of them as places I have been to, some of them on many occasions. Particularly Mull which is certainly a dramatic place and that north coast road is just superb. I have driven that on several occasions in my Sprite, whilst holydaying there. My elder daughter lived in Tobermory for two years; used to work as a wildlife guide on boat trips whale watching and around the islands so it became a gerular trip up there in the Sprite. Sorry to... MORE
Jim.... Best and easiest way to get this right PDQ....call these people tomorrow AM and they will guide you correctly... www.nisonger.com 3 hour diff. in time, of course!! :) Cap'n. Bob '60 :{) PilotRob@... 23375... MORE
Hi I think I might be to late put my two pennyworth in. I have just done the very same job on my Mk1 Midget and it is exactly the same.The rear end was fixed to a point behind the trim with a self tapping screw.The frount and had a small bracket that fixed around the trim and bolted to one of the nuts that are attached to the padding on top of the dash.As far as the trim around the door space is concerned this is fixed by little clips with barbs on them that clip on to... MORE
Kim , only a thousand dollars for all that work ? , and it certainly looks good quality from the pix on your web page. If you really have to sell, then good luck, but if there's apart of you that says, I'd really like to hang onto that car. Then you will find that all the bits you have taken off the car will fit inside it, stacked up. Put it in the corner of your garage with a dust sheet over it. Pick up the project in a couple of years time when the little Yuchols take... MORE
Where are you and this car in a basket? Bill French Hilton Head, SC frenchww@... 23318... MORE
Don't! If there is water in it you need room for a header - for expansion - and that means all the hoses etc to give proper circulation, and you will be able to run it only for a few moments, and if there is not a header - how much money did you say you want to throw away on an unnecessary rebuild? On the other hand, why not take it apart and have a peek whilst you are there and save all the trouble and aggravation! Just a look inside the rocker cover will give you a... MORE
I must apologize to those who followed my progress report, just don't have the time nor the room anymore to work on my 67 Sprite. It is a 67 Sprite that is torn down and middle of restoration. It has a lot of body work done already and shouldn't take much to finish. The shell and doors were professionally sandblasted to bare metal. (cost over $400 for just that). Car is apart but well cataloged, small parts in Ziplock bags with labels, bigger parts in categorized plastic bins, shell on a dolly, new VB parts used cost over $600.... MORE
G'day all Gotta ask - why?????? Under heavy braking, when the weight transfers to the front, the rear brakes lock up with the standard drum brakes fitted. I get slower as I get older (or so my bride tells me), but perhaps someone can explain to me why locking up the rears sooner (by using disc brakes) is an advantage. Personally, I enjoy power oversteer, but don't cherish disappearing backwards into the shrubbery under hard braking. Of course I have seen a few people fit rear disc brakes. Guess what they fit next. A brake biassing valve (usually off... MORE
Heh, heh.... Well, Terry.. ......if he's capable of doing his own machining then it's basically his time and not really the money that is at stake. With a proper biasing valve it should work. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I, too, find the stock brakes pefectly adequate. Wonder what it'll be like when he hits the pedal in the rain? Probably have to crank in a little more bias to the fronts, I would imagine. Which will probably defeat the whole purpose of discs in the back for superior stopping in the dry? Maybe he'll make page... MORE
Don.... Is the water pump is operable and on the engine and belt hooked up? If so, hook up a hose (tape, whatever) and "feed" the motor thru the thermo cover letting it run out the back (block heater outlet) using a normal hose hooked up to a spigot at low flow velocity? And I wouldn't take a chance on a malfunctioning stadt, either. Go stadtless. Otherwise I have no clue since in summer temps., mine warms up virtually in a heartbeat...really. But I don't think this is the critical aspect of it, anyway. You see, without water circulation... MORE
Hi, Hamondale.... This does seem like overkill with all the excellent lining material we have today for the street, doesn't it? However, once he's got the biasing valve in place, it will sure stop! And the "quicker" you can stop, the "quicker" you can go for a longer period of time in distance. So I think I MAY have a handle on why he is doing this in a street application. You can only get so "hard" on linings before they lose their effectiveness 'cause you can't keep them "hot" enough on the street at "normal" speeds in "normal"... MORE
Thanks for the reply. It's very hard for me to explain what I need to know. The seal I purchased from Moss Motor clips over the ridge that runs from front to back on the area of the door opening on the main body. It is a system that to spread apart and slip over this ridge. Only troube is that once you do this the seal will not stay in place. That's the best I can explain it. Zegrod53@... 23242... MORE
Tracey.... Welcome and congrats on your newly acquired MG Midget. Get on to "Amazon" or favorite book store and pick up a Bentley AND Haynes manual on these cars as your best guide and source of information on your vehicle for both you and any mechanic that may work on it. You can't do anything without proper information. And we're here to help you along.... purrfect! :) You do like cats, right? This is very important along with some knowledge and or a liking for guns and beer! :) Cap'n. Bob '60 :{) PilotRob@... 23049... MORE
But of course in the UK most of these have different names, and some - like the "sidemarker lamps" don't exist at all! And a "quarter light" as in the original thread topic, is nothing to do with Mr Lucas. The term light refers to a window or pane of glass - as in Elizabethan buildings with "leaded lights", "skylights", "fanlight", "borrowed lights" etc. Remember these are LBCs. Actually, I think everyone should stick with the British naming of parts and drop all references to hoods when you mean bonnets, rotors when you mean discs, fenders when you mean... MORE
Can you remove them without taking the seat cover off? I asked this about the 74 head rest, turns out they did have a spring loaded clip that once it popped into place it was almost impossible to remove except by brute force and pure luck that the retaining clip would break. It worked for Bob, it did not work for me. Either his clip was weaker than mine or he is more brutish than I . . . Et tu, Brutus? Don "Don May" 22995... MORE
Nelson I think it is for the blocked filter warning light ( the red light just above the oil pressure gauge ). A 62 Sprite should have this light the later cars do not so a spin on filter head from a later car will not have this connection but I guess an adapter for use on an earlier car should. Hope this helps Dave "David Dixon" 22986... MORE
midgetSpriter's, I've been trawling the lists for an answer to what seems to be an eternal struggle of getting my Standard Block 1275cc Midget (1970) to run in a reasonable fashion. I've read with interest a number of suggestions and am even more confused as to what the right thing to do in regard to getting this car to run with todays fuels. I've tried the full complement of fuels and am currently running with Premium Unleaded. The engine has been recently rebuilt with the addition of hardened valve seats so I guess I should at least have some... MORE
I checked and have found the relevant mounting points. The wheel well attachment consisted of two studs with chrome dome nuts. Can anyone suggest a US source for the proper 3-point belts? I don't believe that they would have been retractable. Thanks, Herman "hermanfarrer" 22891... MORE
Toy... You forgot..... .............you'll need at least a 9 round clip. Cap'n. Bob '60 :{) PilotRob@... 22827... MORE
Don, Have been following your discussion of mystery mods. This may help. It sounds like your 74 has twin carbs. In 75 they went to the single Zenith and the third rubber hose from the canister hooked up to a compression fitting on the back or firewall side of the carb near the bottom. It may be that the emissions equipment was retrofitted. FWIW Rob C 75 Midget robbiesg@... 22781... MORE
Actually, Bob... Number of carbs notwithstanding, it's probably the same system they used on the single carbed '75, slightly modified for the different engine and/or single carb. set-up and/or closed loop fuel system. However, your input gives us the reason for the compression fitting in the first place...I was not at all sure how it figured into the system, as you may have guessed! And while I do not recall it being a part of the emissions stuff I pulled off my previously owned '74, most likely it was there, in the same place as Don May finds it... MORE
Hi, Don... Well, I have to admit I am doing most of this from memory of what I had on my po'd '74.....this was like 20+ years ago!! Naturally, when I looked at all that stuff cluttering up the engine compartment, I barfed! Then I took it all off, cut the restrictors on the carbs, got a ventilated/ filtered oil filler cap and set up a "ventilated" rather than "evacuated" system. But as Gerard and many others have correctly pointed out, a properly working PCV system is a "good thing" in more than one respect. Yes...the engine breathes in... MORE
Hi Bob, The restrictor inserted in the hose from the oil separator is a modification and not a stock part rather a jerry rig piece of a standard plumbing compression fitting he used to restrict the line, so it was not an official California set up. All I know to do is return it to the direct hose and see how it runs. Although curiosity leads me to wonder why he did it. If I recall correctly in 74 model year the pancake looking PVC valve on top the intake manifold was deleted and the Y connector to the... MORE
Morning Bob, So the collected fumes in the charcoal canister are fed back into the system via the hose to the head cover. It appears there is no collection ports from the fuel bowls on the carburetors. So that would explain their being no hose from them to the canister. That leaves why the PO felt an additional restrictor was necessary, or desirable, in the oil separator to carburetors hose. It was my understanding that as you say "The input fittings within the carbs are in themselves graduated orifices." Think I will take the additional restrictor he inserted out... MORE
