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Update And Acquisition
Created on 2009-03-14 06:40:50
Been a while since I've posted here.
Christmas and New Year have come and gone and I've been using the B as much as I can.
It's done about 800mls and apart from some serious rattles and some intermittent gauge workings it's running well.
BIG learning curve to drive smoothly and I'm not sure if it's me being spoilt by new cars with power steering and brakes or it is just a difficult car to drive.
David pestered me about driving it now he has his full license and I let him have a go the other day.
All in all he did ok but I think he now realises how difficult the actual driving bit is. He needs lots more practice and I hope the gearbox can take the punishment.
Which brings me to this:
It's a Mk1 gearbox WITH overdrive.
I won't go into how I came by it but although it looks a little rough now I'm hoping that I can eventually install it.
Hopefully after Davids gear changes have improved.
Christmas and New Year have come and gone and I've been using the B as much as I can.
It's done about 800mls and apart from some serious rattles and some intermittent gauge workings it's running well.
BIG learning curve to drive smoothly and I'm not sure if it's me being spoilt by new cars with power steering and brakes or it is just a difficult car to drive.
David pestered me about driving it now he has his full license and I let him have a go the other day.
All in all he did ok but I think he now realises how difficult the actual driving bit is. He needs lots more practice and I hope the gearbox can take the punishment.
Which brings me to this:
It's a Mk1 gearbox WITH overdrive.
I won't go into how I came by it but although it looks a little rough now I'm hoping that I can eventually install it.
Hopefully after Davids gear changes have improved.
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Summary of Previous Journal Entries
Showing previous 10 journal entries:
| Title | Date | #Pic | #Cmt | Excerpt |
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| Not Quite The Bargain I Thought. | 2008-11-22 | Seems the bearings I got were the wrong ones and the correct ones are not available in the cheaper version. So $100 odd later I got the right bearings and they went in today... | ||
| PVC Glove Box | 2008-11-14 | Remember this! Well, I've kind-of given up on this - too much stuffing around. There's one on Ebay from the guy? I got the fuel tank from. I think I might ju... | ||
| Noise From Rear End. | 2008-11-14 | This is close to the text I put as a question on the forum: I've only put less than 100 mls on the car since the rebuilt and when it came to the rear end, I pulled i... | ||
| Finally Got Rego! | 2008-10-25 | 2 | 2 | After a dismal Wednesday postponement because of the weather, yesterday morning I was successful in getting the MGB registered for road use. David and I took off at ... |
| Parking Brake And The Wrong Springs | 2008-10-18 | 2 | Pulled a rear wheel to see 'what's-what' with the hand brake. Basically I can't get enough adjustment on the hand brake lever and the lever is all the way up before it holds... | |
| Side Mirror | 2008-10-15 | 2 | Few weeks ago, during the school holidays and on the way to visit the in-laws, we called in at Heritage MG and I bought a new side mirror. I intended to get the 'bullet' style but ... | |
| Speedo Refresh And LED Dash Lights. | 2008-09-10 | The speedo was pretty much the last important thing to sort out and I ended up pulling it and disassembling it. Was all gunked up with hardened grease. While it was out I th... | ||
| Death Of A Friend | 2008-09-10 | 4 | Peter died early last week and I'm struggling coming to terms with it. A few days ago I wouldn't have been able to write this but I'm getting a little better. The funeral wa... | |
| Glove Box Fabrication | 2008-09-10 | 2 | Mentioned before about a new glove box out of PVC sheet. I thought that I may have been able to make the box a little bigger to make use of some of the space behind the dash... | |
| First Run On The Streets. | 2008-08-27 | 6 | Not legal yet but, went for our first decent drive tonight. Went up the road did a 3 point turn and came back. Checked around the car a bit, checked the tyre pressures and put Davi... |
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