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Chris W
Member ID: sweep
Member Status: Gold Member  Gosford NSW, Australia 
Last Login: 2012-05-17 15:57:25
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Owner of '67 MGB in bits. *Update* Many more bits now and more to come! *Update2* Lots more bits and now on Rotisserie. *Update3* Started the way back has revamped front and rear suspension and is back on the ground. *Update* Pretty sure now car is a '66. *Update4* Did complete motor rebuild and it's in and running. Now working on the interior and the body. *Update5* Now road registered and able to be driven - still lots of cosmetic issues, however.
3 Vehicles --
Total mileage: 333,019 mi (535,942 km) --
Average age: 1983
There are 169 total entries in this Journal.
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Posted on: Thursday May 17, 2012
Having finished off the clutch re-visit, I've been enjoying the exploration of the OD. After the initial shack-down mentioned in the previous entry I was keen to give it a good decent run. So after checking on eBay and finding nothing, I gave Heritage motors a ring to enquire about a OD speedo cable. After some discussion on the phone it was established that they had one there and they would send it up to me. "Hang on, I might take a ride down and get it." Ok, they will leave it on the counte...
Posted on: Monday May 14, 2012
Started this morning and checked that the bolts would go in beside the U joints. Yes! Easy-ish! So to drill the holes to couple it together. I was anticipating this to be more difficult than it was so I've gone a bit overboard with the photos. So because I took them you have to look at them! I thought that I was in for a long fiddly process of measuring and drilling the holes 'cause I wanted to sure they were accurate. Well hit on a short cut using an old valve stem that happened to be th...
Posted on: Sunday May 13, 2012
Did this on Friday - haven't had a chance to write it up 'till now. Annoyed at myself for not taking more photos, especially of the block I started with. Made more frustrating because the times I thought of taking pics I didn't have my camera with me, I'd completely forgotten about my new phone which has a decent camera in it and this was in my pocket the whole time! In fact the 3 pics I have I took with it. They're not great but certainly acceptable. Well, continuing on, I needed a slug ...
Posted on: Thursday May 10, 2012
Mosquitos have been horrendous lately here at any time of day. So thick I had to give it away yesterday. This morning I went mad with the Aeroguard and managed to replace the fuel filter and start it up again and run it for a few minutes. Smoked like crazy - oil on the exhaust I suppose. Anyway that seemed to disperse the mozzies and I was able to install the switch and the relay. I used a existing screw to mount the relay and I managed to fit the switch between the fuel gauge and the vacu...
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| Date | Site | Title | Category | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-04-02 | mgb | KPH Speedometer Conversion | Service:Electrical and Instruments | 1 |
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