OK Bill,

What is an Accusump and how does it work???   Does every hill climbing MG TDr need one? == especially if the car has a fine front engine????

Ed’s right it does sound like a symptom of carb icing.  But carb icing in south Florida?  I have never experienced icing, so check the temperature of your inlet manifold just below the carburetor.

More progress trying to get the hood to line up at both ends — “mark — cut — test fit — mark — cut — test fit — sand — repeat as needed…..”

And we got it to be as good as it gets — we adjusted out as much as was possible given the fact that the hood was pre-trimmed sometime in its past  30 years by one of its prior owners.

It turns…[Read more]

Half-inch plate isn’t “reinforcement” Bill. It’s armor.

When I had those symptoms it was carb icing. One of the little heater tubes that come from the exhaust manifold and go to the intake manifold had rotted away. It was hiding behind one of the bigger paper foil heater tubes that run into the fan shroud, so I did not see it for like a season. Eventually I just wrapped it with silver muffler tape and…[Read more]

I’ll assume that you checked the choke.  ??  If not, shame on you.

Capacitors are easy to replace and cheap.  Change it first.

Could be the fuel pump, but unlikely.

The next time that it acts up, take a plug wire off and stick a phillips screwdriver into the end that normally goes on the spark plug.  Holding the screwdriver close to any…[Read more]

Spent a few hours in the garage today. Pulled the transmission, removed the bell housing and clutch to drive the pilot bearing deeper into the crankshaft. Initial installation was tough. I had to pull the transmission up tight with the mounting bolts. Now it slides right in all t he way. While it was disassembled I finished the mounting of the…[Read more]