Author Topic: Possible Tranny Problem? (Read 2645 times)

tpl · « **Reply #20 on:** July 12, 2005, 06:28:48 pm »

Safristi! I have watched and helped but not been responsible for a valve adjustment job on a jaguar 3.8.....nowdays my favorite tool is the telephone.

And it gets more unlikely that I would ever lie under a car again...unless I was in an accident... but now with economic freedom I could buy a lift for the big garage workshop I don't have.

I rather fancy myself as a rather slower driving LKJ Setright actually rather than Egan but maybe Saf YOU are the reincarnation of Setright cobined with Spike Milligan

AVToller · « **Reply #21 on:** July 12, 2005, 08:55:36 pm »

Well Saffi, I guess you have me pegged.

Oh God, for this post I lost my life?

Why not for one of my brilliant, erudite ones? Right - there haven't been any yet. <sigh> Still, there is always hope for the future.

tpl · « **Reply #22 on:** July 12, 2005, 09:17:49 pm »

But AVT owning TWO MG Magnettes makes it all worthwhile...really!

AVToller · « **Reply #23 on:** July 12, 2005, 10:20:45 pm »

They were lovely cars for their time. It would be kind of hard to get a real, solid wood dash these days.

My first one was a '57 ZA - my first engine rebuild. There were only a FEW pieces left over when my older brother and I finished. Never did figure out where they belonged!

tpl · « **Reply #24 on:** July 13, 2005, 06:50:22 am »

The ZA was the last with a real MG engine no? the ZB wasn't that the early BMC B series lump?

AVToller · « **Reply #25 on:** July 13, 2005, 09:10:07 am »

Don't think so. ZA & ZB were mechanically the same IIRC. The change came with the new (ugh) body style - the square look. Mind you, I said goodbye to the '58 in 1968, so the details may not be perfectly fresh in my mind.

To bring it (sort of) back on thread, my first transmission rebuild was on my MGA Mark II. I actually wound up doing 4 of them, the extra 3 helped finance rebuilding the A.