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Clovis, CA, USA
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NOTE: These repairs were made in June of 2018.
I purchased this car from my son (pgaither) earlier this spring with the intent of using it to base my V6 build on. The body is straight and rust-free, the paint is good (not GREAT, but good). There is no interior other than seats. So by this time, I had arrived home with my new V6, so my plans for this car changed and I decided to offer it for sale to another enthusiast who would give it some TLC. I really love the Mark-I's with the metal dashboard and this car has already been outfitted with a D-Type overdrive. .
When my son first bought the car it was wearing HIF-4's. A local British repair shop decried them as garbage and sold my son a Weber DGV. It never really ran well. So I decided to take it to the same shop so they could make it run good. Upon seeing it, they decried the DGV as garbage! I reminded them that they are the ones that sold it to us so they decided to fix it. After 90min of labor, it still didn't run right. They said I should consider getting some HS-4's to put on. I drove away from that shop for the last time.
I called the local British Wizard (OleanderJoe) who had retired and he agreed to help me with this car. It didn't take him very long to find a laundry list of things incorrectly done by the previous shop.
So he rebuilt the carb, attached the vacuum advance, wired the coil correctly, repaired a broken pulley on the generator, rebuilt the generator, adjusted the valves, adjusted the timing, rebuilt the distributor and adjusted everything. It ran better than ever. Joe is truly a wizard!
In the mean time, I had an MG-Exp member who was interested in this car. Before we could complete the sale - one of his other cars broke down. The tires are all ancient and need replacing.
Since I bought a completed V6 rather than building one – I still have the hankering to build another MGB. I have to decide if I really want to sell this car now OR refresh the whole car, put the interior and then sell it next spring. I can’t keep 3 MGB’s and give them the attention they need as I don’t really have the space. I thought other folks would want to purchase this little gem and then finish it to their own specification. But I’m getting the feeling folks would rather have something finished. That’s okay… I can do that.
I purchased this car from my son (pgaither) earlier this spring with the intent of using it to base my V6 build on. The body is straight and rust-free, the paint is good (not GREAT, but good). There is no interior other than seats. So by this time, I had arrived home with my new V6, so my plans for this car changed and I decided to offer it for sale to another enthusiast who would give it some TLC. I really love the Mark-I's with the metal dashboard and this car has already been outfitted with a D-Type overdrive. .
When my son first bought the car it was wearing HIF-4's. A local British repair shop decried them as garbage and sold my son a Weber DGV. It never really ran well. So I decided to take it to the same shop so they could make it run good. Upon seeing it, they decried the DGV as garbage! I reminded them that they are the ones that sold it to us so they decided to fix it. After 90min of labor, it still didn't run right. They said I should consider getting some HS-4's to put on. I drove away from that shop for the last time.
I called the local British Wizard (OleanderJoe) who had retired and he agreed to help me with this car. It didn't take him very long to find a laundry list of things incorrectly done by the previous shop.
So he rebuilt the carb, attached the vacuum advance, wired the coil correctly, repaired a broken pulley on the generator, rebuilt the generator, adjusted the valves, adjusted the timing, rebuilt the distributor and adjusted everything. It ran better than ever. Joe is truly a wizard!
In the mean time, I had an MG-Exp member who was interested in this car. Before we could complete the sale - one of his other cars broke down. The tires are all ancient and need replacing.
Since I bought a completed V6 rather than building one – I still have the hankering to build another MGB. I have to decide if I really want to sell this car now OR refresh the whole car, put the interior and then sell it next spring. I can’t keep 3 MGB’s and give them the attention they need as I don’t really have the space. I thought other folks would want to purchase this little gem and then finish it to their own specification. But I’m getting the feeling folks would rather have something finished. That’s okay… I can do that.
Just washed her up and took a photo
Engine bay prior to work
Engine bay prior to work
Engine bay prior to work
Took it to a lift to take photos of underside
Bad distro wire and broken pulley
repaired pulley with JB-Weld
Rebuilt distributor
Getting the carb worked out
Manifold
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