Tuesday Night Shenanigans

Busy night... research shows our radiator cap should be 10 psi, not 7... i will order one from Moss tonight.

(The Panic List has been updated)

Welded bolts onto the cut off rear bumper mount beams. Nice and grody job too. Nasty piece of work that is:



...a few bolts and washers later and Bob's Your Uncle, we have a rear bumper. Pre-dented, rusty, off kilter, and falling apart. Perfect. I'm thinking that under-valence could use some blackout spray paint though...



Front bumper installed (it's mounting brackets are bent too); tow hook dangling lazily underneath :


Petrol Lid finally painted and riveted on; no latch yet. Think the color is too subtle?



"Feed Me!":


Seat harness bolts attached. The right side goes into the normal seat belt attach point, however the left side seat belt attach point was covered over by the rollbar down-tube spreader plates (oops!) so I filtched some grade-8 seat attach spreader plates from the captains lounge chairs from the HattenBus and ta da! finally bolted back in. There is one of those thick gold plates on top and underneath the floorboards. Belts not tightened up yet.


Seat back support brace; spent a good 30 minutes creating a good pin to lock it in place, then accidentally found a perfect one at Tractor Supply when my daughter & I stopped there after gymnastics to check out the baby chickens. The proper pin is the gold half circle in the right half of the pic; ain't it cool:

Gormless indeed

This weekends adventures... 1.5 weeks till the race and we are indeed GORMLESS!!!!!!!!!!

The alternator was not charging the battery at all, thereby causing sadness where the joy of ignition should reside.

Took apart the alternator (the only way to see which of the four alts used that year is on the inside cover. Cheeky Brits.) and found a disconnected connection between the first circuit board and the second. Lucas Was Here!

I will do some gymnastic-surgery and repair it, however the question is now: should I scrounge a junkyard alt, order the circut board part, or just buy a new alt for it?? If this connection failed, the others will not be far behind. You can't tell from the pic, but there are several charred and/or melted looking wires, insulation, connections, or terminals.


As for the radiator leak, turns out is was the overflow nipple that was loose. It was a press fit.
Larry & Bob tried to solder it and clean it and solder it and weld it and clean it and solder it and melt it and braze it, all for naught. Condenses on the MGB list is that it should only leak when the radiator cap opens, and that should only be under overheating conditions, so it's not do or die. Choices for this particular mini-disaster are:

1. Use some good epoxy and try to Gerry-rig it
2. Swap the radiator with the '79 (not exact same though)
3. Take out rad, take to radiator repair shop.
4. Leave as is; Keep Calm and Carry On