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Turning a “bargain banger” into a perfectly respectable example of the MG marque

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 10:19 No Comments

 Following yet more work on the brakes CHO is treated to a new set of wheels!
Last month I left off saying the brakes had been completed at last. This was not strictly true as I actually wrote the report before bleeding the brakes, and as I should have expected no job is as easy as [...]

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Turning a “bargain banger” into a perfectly respectable example of the MG marque

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 10:17 No Comments

The last couple of months have seen much activity on the MG project scene. The last report back in November ended with the rear brakes having been completed and the corroded pipe having been replaced, but since then I ran into a couple of problems I hadn’t anticipated at the time of writing the report.

One [...]

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Turning a “bargain banger” into a perfectly respectable example of the MG marque

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 10:15 No Comments

One of the problems on the jobs to do list was the rear wash wipe which refused to function. There was no sound of the pump operating on pressing the button, so that was obviously broken. A trip to Aldershot Car Spares allowed me to salvage a new pump, the donor car being an A [...]

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