6/16 the duhh😂

Love you channel, easy to follow and very informative

Does this procedure apply to a gearbox with Overdrive?

32 degrees needs a bit more clarity otherwise some may set their timing to 32 degrees btdc ! Instead of 32 max advance and 13 btdc.

I have over 100k miles on my O/D gearbox & it wasn't new when I fitted it (original box is non O/D). Apart from changing the oil & the O/D filter & the nylon bush for the gearstick I haven't had to touch it in all those miles. The shift on the box is the best I've had & I normally encounter poor synchros after extended miles on Triumph & Ford boxes but this box just keeps going. Its only downside is weight but then the rest of MGB is built like a tank.

Are you still helping people? If so I have a problem. I am restoring a MG MGB 1979 the problem I have is the people before me took the top off the thermostat housing to get water to the choke. I replaced the housing with a new one and I have been trying to find the right place to hook up the hose coming from my Zenith carburetor. All the picture show the hose going off the back of the block but I do not see anyplace that I can use. Please help me.

I tried everything then I changed the radiator and boom! All set, it was the radiator all the time.

Excellent video, well worth watching (although I refrained from refurbing myself in favour of just buying brandnew calipers instead). Gearboxes and just these front calipers frighten me, fortunately the rest of the B mechanisms does not 😀

Hi. Great video! Love the deep explanation about inside that box. Didn't understood very well ( not my main language) but the thin wire could be replace with other thin wire? Why I need to keep the old one their?

Great video bud!

Bad back time !

Grease to the bottom of the new gaskit ! bad idea, it will slip. I have never done that and never had any issues or leaks

Are these similar to SU Carbs on the Datsun Roadsters? I have never heard of MG are they collectable? How are they on reliability? Are they known to leak? I have always wanted a Datsun Roadster since I was a kid but if these MG’s are less expensive maybe I will settle.

I lost a wheel - TWICE! I was young and dumb. The car was NOT an MG but an Alpine. The failure was with a loud "scrunch" from the left front hub. I stopped, Inspected, reattached the wheel and proceeded onward. Got back to the dorm parking lot and decided to "test" my non-repair. Got up to 30 mph, jammed on the brakes and BUMP. The wheel departed the hub. Came to an abrupt halt yet the tire proceeded to bound another 100 yards --- right into the left rear flank of a brand-new Impala. Oops!!! I got a replacement form the junkyard, changed the hub in a snowstorm and lived a good life thereafter.

John uses no "TLC" whatsoever! I do stuff on my car with "kid gloves" and i still break things😂😂

OK but how do you fit the rubber bushes into the butterfly thing?!

Excellent instructional video!!!

So I' getting too much voltage to the battery (15.5v or more), which direction to turn the Voltage bobbin dial to lower the voltage?

16 years and still helping us 1st timers

I love the look of that mini , It's just made to drive and have fun in and not having to worry about scratches or dings. I'm so done with all the 'perfection' on everything around me , as I get older it all seems like a wast of time to persue this while you could just be having fun. 😏

I repaired a "closed cell foam" float by drilling a hole in it just large enough for an automotive marker lamp (baseless bulb about 1/2" OD) Buoyancy regained and gage works great again. Drill hole slightly undersized for a tight press fit of the bulb glass into the foam.

Great story, John!!

John, thanks for the wonderful review of my Undo-Stick! FYI you didn't have to roll the car when you couldn't get the tool on the knock-off. You just had to flip it around 180deg and it would have worked fine. Live and learn right? Thanks again

Why can’t we arch the shoes like the old days

What size is restricter on valve cover on 1979 mgb

My car mg gt 2022. So my car is problem for Gair I started car and pote tha Gair for d is not goon for d or r

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My 74 roadster UK, reverse lights wont work when the switch is in the gearbox with no shims. Out of the gearbox pressing the switch ball makes the revese lights work. Fuses, earths all good front and back. Any solutions welcome. Thanks

5:24 The little round thing held in place by a six point star is not a capacitor. It is a resistor for spark suppression to reduce contact erosion and radio interference. On one of my 12V windtone horns it measured nine ohms. I plotted current versus voltage to see if it was some sort of semiconductor overvoltage suppressor but it came out a straight line - so simply a resistor.

Ahhh. The good old days. I was trained in English su's on Volvo when I was age 15. I have not got to work on a pair for years. KD needles and 30 wt was pretty close on a b20b.

Brilliant thanks 👍

I saw someone's wire wheel that came off once. 15 years ago. Heading south on LA's Harbor Freeway to just before it ends at Gaffey St in San Pedro on a mid-afternoon. I had to swerve out of my lane as there was a wire wheel in the middle of my lane. About a hundred feet or more ahead was an MGB missing a wheel and it's accompanying hub almost on the pavement. Forgot if it was the front or rear. The driver looked thoroughly bewildered but at least he had the sense to put his hazard lights on.

Good stuff! 15 years later, would love to see an updated video with better camera work, lighting etc. So much useful info here.

University motors

I was able to do this with MAP gas, it took a little longer but it was possible

4:50 Something I noticed when I had my cam go south. I too had nicks on my cam, which was interesting being I used new ARP studs, and had all the big ends resized. What happened was two of my ARP studs, both on the cam side, turned while torquing, something I did not notice. By turned I mean the oblong top of the stud turned out so it was sticking proud of the piston enough to hit the cam on rotation. Both pistons 1 and 2 had this issue. I put a new cam in and took the surface of the studs down on the cam side using a Dremel to get clearance. Remember, there's not much clearance to the cam and some of the newer cams use rather large blanks, which too doesn't help. Measure and make sure of the clearance when using ARP studs.

Good video thanks 👍🏼

Interesting, that you use sound to balance or pear the throttle butterfly's. Thats new to me! When I did that years ago, I put the carbs on the manifold. Then, I put lights behind the manifold, with a blanket over my head, so I could see the cresants of light shining from both slides. I found this was best for me to get it spot on. Mind you, I am a visual learner and my hearing was below par. I remember a common problem with the SUs, which was the Flexi fuel pipe could get blocked due to no inline filter! This was sorted once a filter was fitted. Thanks for your video, have great day 🙂🇬🇧

Why are all of your video's out of focus??>?

Hi..are you still producing vids ?

Thanks for the demo.

Another brilliant video from Mr Twist,thank you sir.From Richard in the UK.

what's that in metric?

Found them on Amazon

Thanks for this video, my bugeye is having a charging problem, so this helps me debug it.

Here in May of 2024, and I greatly appreciate insight. Watched this after having just put my 69 MGB on 4 jack stands and now know that I got things close to right. Failed the parts about leaving the parking brake off and lowering back first then the front, but I’ll remember for next time… because there’ll most certainly be a next time😊

12 years later, this still helps! Thank you!

Thanks

Mate, best explanation of the su, learned more in 5 minutes from you than I have been able to about them since forever,👍, James in Australia.

What causes run on or dieseling? How to diagnos the problem?