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Update I
Created on 2002-05-11 00:00:00
Spent a few hours tearing the car down this weekend, here's how things stand now.
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Here we go - passenger side seat out, everything out of the trunk, some interior panels removed.
The early type door before disassembly. Remove top & bottom screws on right-hand runner, then two nuts holding on quarterlight from the bottom and two bolts from the side (under plastic plugs), then screws holding bottom of quarterlight runner at the bot
The door parts I removed so far: window glass, right runner, left runner and quarterlight, regulator
The mostly bare door
Doors stripped, windshield out, rollbar out, most interior out. Note the notches cut out of the battery cover for the rollbar mounting plates (me) and the crappy fiberglass transmission mods (DPO).
The rear gets the same treatment. Generous use of penetrant to get those bumper bolts off!
On to the engine bay. Ran the car for a while to warm it up (feels like a race car sitting in it with no interor or windscreen) - then drained the oil and coolant. Removed distributor and generator, horns, and the radiator and oil cooler as one unit.
The easiest way is to remove all of this as one unit (radiator, overflow tank, oil cooler and hoses, shroud). Note the aftermarket expansion tank. I'm not sure if I will keep it, as it blocks some of the fresh air that feeds the carbs. Cooler intake =
Here we go - passenger side seat out, everything out of the trunk, some interior panels removed.
The early type door before disassembly. Remove top & bottom screws on right-hand runner, then two nuts holding on quarterlight from the bottom and two bolts from the side (under plastic plugs), then screws holding bottom of quarterlight runner at the bot
The door parts I removed so far: window glass, right runner, left runner and quarterlight, regulator
The mostly bare door
Doors stripped, windshield out, rollbar out, most interior out. Note the notches cut out of the battery cover for the rollbar mounting plates (me) and the crappy fiberglass transmission mods (DPO).
The rear gets the same treatment. Generous use of penetrant to get those bumper bolts off!
On to the engine bay. Ran the car for a while to warm it up (feels like a race car sitting in it with no interor or windscreen) - then drained the oil and coolant. Removed distributor and generator, horns, and the radiator and oil cooler as one unit.
The easiest way is to remove all of this as one unit (radiator, overflow tank, oil cooler and hoses, shroud). Note the aftermarket expansion tank. I'm not sure if I will keep it, as it blocks some of the fresh air that feeds the carbs. Cooler intake =
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Summary of Previous Journal Entries
Showing previous 10 journal entries:
| Title | Date | #Pic | #Cmt | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| On Your Mark, Get Set... | 2002-04-29 | The wheels of restoration have once again been set in motion, tonight I start taking the B apart. I have a spot reserved at the end of May with my new bodywork specialist, and af... | ||
| Hibernation | 2002-01-16 | Well, I fixed most of the leaks by using some silicone RTV to help the lower windshield seals seal properly. I'm just using the B for short errand trips right now, the valvetrain... | ||
| Drip Drip Drip | 2001-12-01 | OK, for all of you that have been emailing me wondering when I'm going to update the web site, here it is. The reason that I haven't been doing much work on the car is because I ... | ||
| Found the Clonk | 2001-10-01 | 2 | For a while now I've been trying to find the source of a "clonk" sound that comes from the rear-right hand side of the car when I go over bumps. If you search through the rest of... | |
| Catastrophic Engine Failure | 2001-09-09 | Last night I was driving up Knight street here in Vancouver, accelerating up a mild hill, when I hear a soft "bang" sound in the engine bay and all of a sudden the car loses all p... | ||
| New Exhaust Note, Wheels Fixed | 2001-08-01 | This month I did a LOT of driving in the MGB. During a recent trip up to the cabin in the mountains, I had just rounded the last corner of the hour-long hillclimb through the mou... | ||
| MGB Month II | 2001-06-15 | 6 | Lots to report, first I finally got a new speedometer installed. I ordered a large-face 1280 tpm speedo from the UK to match my later top-fill overdrive transmission. Only the U... | |
| MGB Month I | 2001-06-04 | 3 | Did some more work on the car today while the weather lasts. There was a "clonk" coming from the rear right-hand (passenger) side which I assumed was due to the new leaf spring pa... | |
| Pre-Paint Pictures | 2001-05-30 | 3 | As promised, pictures with the new orange boot lid. For the first time since I bought the car the boot actually closes and locks normally - I will never get sick of that beautifu... | |
| How Wide is Too Wide? | 2001-04-26 | 1 | Did a lot of spring maintenance on the car last weekend, changed the oil and filter, topped up the coolant, replaced the plug wires, replaced the fan belt, fixed a ground problem ... |
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