1953 MGTD Barn Find, Brought back to life.

we Dragged out this 1953 mgtd from the vermont canada border after being parked in 1979. this is one of several videos showing what it takes to bring it back to life.

[@thedevilinthecircuit1414]

Excellent video! When you re-use a copper washer on a banjo bolt, always anneal the washer with a propane torch to cherry red and allow it to air cool. This softens the work-hardened copper and allows it to reform and make a leaf-proof seal as you snug the bolt into place.

[@robinredman5192]

Darren, the MG fits you well. We all hope your health is improving. Take care and thank you for all the hard work and entertainment. John here, photographing the beautiful back-roads of Northeastern Tennessee, y'all.

[@bullbutter9699]

He is recovering well from penis enlargement surgery.

[@Paul-FrancisB]

Good afternoon fellow Mustie1 fans, from Lincolnshire UK 🇬🇧.

[@afrayedknott1701]

Back to you, from Chandler Mountain Alabama

[@associatedblacksheepandmisfits]

Hi to the Imp 👿! 😊

[@finno123456]

Good afternoon all from Ireland 🇮🇪

[@Series3V8]

And from here in Yorkshire

[@rickychopper]

Hello again from North Lincolnshire as well.

[@mechanicsmyway1797]

It was mustie who inspired me, Darren's channel was the first youtube channel I subscribed to back in 2009 2010 around there, has been quite pleasant being a part of the channel and I really gotta hand it to him as he inspired me not to give up.

[@Crispy1320]

I like the fact that you work on so many different things. Keep up the awesome videos.

[@kenstrayhorn5923]

About five or so years ago I started using synthetic fluids on the older British cars I sometimes work on, including my own '72 Triumph. Red Line manual trans fluid, silicone brake fluid, etc. Wow, what a difference! Great upgrades for these old beauties. Greetings to all hard-working men and women from NC farm country, luckily not in the path of Helene.

[@donnienicholson6062]

I'll bet you know what that small dial on the tach is.

[@larryd.214]

Good Sunday morning everybody. Thanks for another good video on this ol' MG Mr. Mustie!

[@ManxAndy]

Good morning Mustie crew…from a damp and drizzling IOM 👍🇮🇲👌

[@echobeefpv8530]

Happy Sunday from Winnipeg, Canada ! What a great project this is, you are getting close now , looking forward to more on this car.

[@WinterInTheForest]

Really enjoy the car videos

[@roconnor01]

Twin SU Carbs. It's nice to see old cars from my country, turning up in the USA.

[@xcalibre222]

I'm glad those cars from UK are here in Illinois, USA. Fun automobiles. My Grandparents all came from England originally around 1900 so I've always had a love for old country and their autos. 🕍

[@Jesselovespinball]

Good morning from Massachusetts USA 🇺🇸

[@Ajaxaxxess]

Good morning from MN bud!!

[@gerry-p9x]

Metro NYC here buddies

[@alanwbelcher]

Looking and sounding much better. Great work! It’s good to see an old MG brought back to life. Thanks!

[@thejll]

Sunday afternoon, Denmark. Great wrenching!

[@karkacesub]

Your editing is on another level. Keep slaying it!

[@TheScaryName]

Your neighbour is a cop? He gotta luv you 😅

[@EllisDmented]

Just what I needed on a rainy Sunday morning. Thank you mustie

[@josephsimanski3192]

Watching from beautiful, sunny, downtown Gardiner Maine! Maybe I'll see this cool machine at a car show in the spring. That would be amazing!

[@Philc231]

Hope your health is improving Darren. Be careful please .

[@roberthocking9138]

Nice job, beautiful old classic car.

[@tstuart7333]

Super sweet little car. Always great content from the main man. Really enjoy watching this man, he has a great attitude towards his views and work.

[@BillEllis-w9v]

I grew up in the 60's UK and we all wanted one of these cars. Now I am very glad that I did not own one. Lol! Who puts a dipstick next to carpet. Thanks Mustie 1.

[@eddiekilby]

Would love to see more on this jewel 👍👍👍👍

[@cliffkiehl2070]

That was a great video for me. I had one of these for a year in 1963.

[@Andy-ir1sj]

Canadian basking in the sun here, watching from Cambodia 🎉 Thanks for the entertainment Mustie1

[@miker8915]

That's a cool tool for setting the correct gap on the spark plug. Awesome video, thank you for posting 😀

[@shawnlowell4522]

Hey you got a dang hot rod there , I'm happy there wasn't any BIG issues :)

[@kenwolf1056]

Good morning. From Destin Florida. USA

[@billro6665]

Good morning all from MI

[@leonardhirtle3645]

1953 was a good year.That’s the year I was born. I hope your health is improving. Thanks for another great video.

[@marksmallman4572]

1957 was a better year!

[@christophermarshall5765]

The SU carbies have the mixture adjustment under the dash pot. To make richer, turn anticlockwise. To make leaner, turn clockwise. Best is to establish a base setting by screwing in until they bottom out, then unscrew 2 turns. This should be very close. I grew up working on cars with carbies on them, and most of the cars I owned had carbies on them. A really useful tool for this is the Gunson’s colour tune tool. It is basically a see through spark plug you screw into a plug hole. You then start the motor and adjust the mixture until you see a pale blue flame in the plug. Use number one and number three cylinders to make the adjustments. The reason I stated two cylinders is because of the twin carbies.

[@fullmetaljacket7]

I can already tell it's gonna be a good one!

[@dans_Learning_Curve]

Good morning from Minnesota!

[@DarrenVaughan-j6j]

Hi D. Awesome revival!! I absolutely love that car!! It’s a keeper for sure. Great job getting it running!! Really love seeing you get something that hasn’t ran for years going again!! Outstanding video as always!! Always appreciate your hard work!! Looking forward to the next one!!😊😊😊😊

[@DancerOfClouds]

Wow I have seen a SU carb since my mums ‘69 mini cooper. Always loved these little MG’s. Good morning from Texas,

[@talen4941]

Hi from Kansas City Missouri USA

[@kevintrumble4691]

I love these videos and look forward to seeing them; I was surprised to see you pointing out the instructions on the plug wires...... I am sure that was for my benefit because he surely knew that. 😅

[@knighthawk86855]

My boss back in the 90s, a J Brophy, use to race these back in the 70s, and 80s, from what I found out, and was told he was pretty good, he loved his MGTDs.

[@Ajaxaxxess]

Coffee n oil changes!! Morning guys from MN U.S.A.

[@daningrim475]

Congratulations--well done!

[@cedhome7945]

Just fill the box with maple syrup 😄 greetings from devizes Wiltshire England 👍

[@CraZy88uk]

great vid mustie what i did for checking your generator/dynamo was to turn on your head lights rev the engine and if the lights got brighter the generator works

[@chrissmith513]

Can you imagine having to work on that back in the day with the tools they had back then 😊😊😊

[@AnthemBassMan]

Man, I miss that engine sound. Not quite the same engine, but I used to have a 1973 MG-B GT hatchback. And when I was a junior in high school I had a 1968 Triumph Spitfire.

[@johnapel2856]

And it lives again! Interesting seeing British car stuff. Thanks as always.

[@gerry-p9x]

Too bad not racing. Green

[@Trond.68]

So nice car and that fantastic sound from a double carb engine.

[@Hope_Boat]

Good afternoon from the Cyclades. 85°C is 185° in Darth Vador units

[@stevem268]

i haven't changed points and condensors for a few decades.! last vehicle was a 71 volvo with a bosch distributer very similar to the vws of the era. i usually pulled the distributor off the motor and did the job on a bench. much easier and less chances of losing the little nuts and bolts. that old volvo also had twin SU carbs and yes you have to loosen the linkage to sync them. the "dashpots" to top of the carbs are there to "cushion" the air slides and need a small amount of fluid in them. volvo recommended automatic transmission fluid

[@EllisDmented]

Whenever I'm filming the dipstick is behind the camera, LOL

[@elsdp-4560]

Thank you for sharing. Nice.👍

[@janeames1513]

85 celsius is 185f so below 190..can't wait to see this thing on a real street drive..good job Darin

[@magovenor]

My early Sunday morning errands demanded that I arrive to the show late. Oh well late is better than no show in this case.

[@michaelcschmitt]

Good morning everyone.

[@bladerunner6282]

screw the mixture nuts all the way up on both carbs, then back them off two full turns and start from there. it will probably be a little rich like that though and you might have to lean it out a bit by screwing them in about a flat or two.

[@JT-tz5hp]

Shes shaping up nicely!

[@keithparady2594]

Good stuff

[@andrewrits3536]

Good day mustie 1 my favourite time of the week

[@beakittelscherz5419]

Hello everyone from Lower Saxony/Germany 🇩🇪🤓

[@HiHi-gg5hr]

good morning mustie! hope youre doing well

[@RobertIvers]

That's one sweet ride!

[@neilhowe2665]

At last...good viewing guys

[@MikeMcAuliffe-g2f]

That car has all kinds of cool.

[@Blue68Camaro]

I had a 1951 MGTD. Carbs were terrible. I bought a replacement kit, worked great. Sold it to a private collector for his museum. Only car I owned that needed a termite bond. If you own one or have worked on one you would understand.

[@dodgydruid]

One thing seeing this is the old sunday institution where father would do work on the car whilst the kids did their sunday thing and mother was sorting out the sunday roast, rarely cars of this era would go to a mechanics unless you were loaded and every sunday morning the clink clatter of tools opened and parts taken off, given a bath in some fairy liquid then fixed and cleaned would go back on car and sunday evening was the test drive so car was ready for the week. I remember my grandfather and father both doing this on their Triumph's, my grandmother used to kick up about the mess when grandfather was washing his SU carbs in the kitchen sink, good dollop of fairy washing up liquid and lots of bubbles, he taught me how to make from copper sheet head gaskets which was for his 2 litre Vitesse a pair of copper gaskets and a thin sheet of fibreglass all trimmed to fit perfectly and daubed with high melting point grease to give the best seal.

[@themarinerkommer4371]

a lot of people call it Yellow metal and they say using GL5 can erode the yellow metal so you need to use GL4 but its hard to get GL4 nowadays so i been using GL5 in my old landrover which has yellow metal parts in the gearbox. i use a molybond stuff with the oil too it has molybdenum in it and it helps with worn bearings etc keep them lubricated well and quieten it down i have also used lucas heavy duty oil stabiliser. i run 85w140 gear oil in it for 20 years now. if you have a lot of leaks the 85w140 will stay in the box or diff longer, but id say you got rooted oil seals, just about all british cars and landrovers well anything british would leak oil most used leather seals but i use the modern neoprene seals.

[@oxfletch]

Tractor Supply sells gear oil compatible with brass gears - "Traveller 2 gal. Ford Tractor Transmission Fluid Mineral Gear Oil" (ie a Ford 8N tractor)

[@PhilipsN2552]

I suppose red is your favorite color hé..? Nice job, nice little MG!

[@bellevue260]

To convert Celsius to Fahrenheit double it and add 30, that gets you close enough. Car looks and sounds great, almost ready!

[@anythingwithwheels1981]

Love the videos man! Keep it up!

[@Inisfad]

The exhaust sound of an English racer accelerating. Nothing quite like it.

[@chipperkeithmgb]

Got a new bgt. New in 1973 delivery from Abingdon was one pound thirty still owe it

[@billthompson4877]

Two for the road,great movie

[@garybrown4671]

My Dad had a VW kit car that looked like it was based on this car. Color and all. He towed it around on a tiny trailer behind his motor home.

[@deere3321]

I love the gas tank. There's no question about how much gas is in the tank.🤣

[@AnthemBassMan]

Not quite the same thing but I used to have an old 1983-84 Troy-Bilt Horse garden tiller. It had bronze transmission gears in it too. If you have an O’Reilly’s parts store near you, they sell an SAE140 gear oil with the GL-4 rating that’s safe for the bronze gears.

[@ellesmerewildwood4858]

Be a really nice old girl to putt around in once everything's working properly. As an aside, have you ever considered an exhaust hose to use on these sorts of projects where you can direct exhausts straight outside. A lot of mechanics use them, especially in the winter months when they keep their roller doors closed.

[@billbeyer657]

Sweet little ride

[@gregphillips.1312]

Working in Celsius, over here we would have a 88°c Thermostat in the Summer an a 92°c one in Winter. So ideally you want it see at 90 ish once it's Warmed up!

[@dodgydruid]

The homemade tool for SU carbs is a wire coat hanger, you cut off two sections that can stand proud of the carb body when inserted into the oil damper and you have the ends bent at an angle like an upside down L, you then tune the two carbs until both the L's are running level with each other and there you have your carbs in balance.

[@radicalrepairs3888]

the windsheild would work better for a short guy , cool car , nice job darren

[@muskokamike127]

2:29 one thing about the square nuts: very rarely do you strip them/round them over.

[@scratchingkentucky2370]

Enjoy your channel . I must say this was the very first video I watched that didn't have one single add in it . Sucks for you , but made for a more enjoyable watch for me !

[@williamrobinson146]

I just knew it was going to the sand pit. LOL

[@styrelsefksu4463]

Hi Mustie Those SU carburetors uses oil to adjust fuel levels so make sure the oil level are the same in both carbs before adjusting them I am not sure what type of oil to use but I know that there are special carburetor oils Someone in the comments might know SU cars was also used on old Volvo cars among others

[@vickslab4608]

what a quirky little car.

[@adamfodge518]

85 celsius is around 185 Fahrenheit. Can't wait to see it dialed and hitting the road.

[@richardwarnock2789]

Mustie Nice !!!😊

[@edmctug8800]

kudos job well done !

[@benlonghair]

"Go look at the book and see what it says" This can't be a Mustie1 video!

[@jimmiepoole7370]

love it fella

[@handyhippie6548]

what with the ad war google is waging, mustie is the only reason i still watch youtube.

[@davebarrowcliffe1289]

Cyprus here! 🇨🇾

[@WCKD.]

I hope there will be a day when Darren decides to upgrade his camera to 4K.

[@Inisfad]

My first car was a 1971 MGB. I wish I knew you then, as no one was able to deal with those twin SU carbs properly. Edit: wire wheels would be nice on this. Had them on the 71, and made tire changing so much easier. The car came with a huge wrench and a hammer….lol

[@nickhale264]

Shame you didn't live in Birmingham. Though the factory was at Adderley Green, from recollection they had an operation in Erdington nearby. In the late 60's I had three friends who owned frog-eyed Sprites and I had a Morris 1000 with twin SU's. For a couple of pounds they would fit new needles and jets, balance the carbs and do a full tune up.

[@Inisfad]

@@nickhale264 Sadly, nothing like that in New York! They looked at the SU carbs like they were something from Mars….lol

[@dodgydruid]

Its rare to find a TD here in the UK as nearly save 1650 of the 22,000 made were exported to the US and were popular despite no fuel gauge, 12v electrics and older variants had no water temp gauge, the green light on the dash is your "find a petrol station soon" light which was the only fuel telltale and these cars were designed at the height of British rationing so they factored in approx 300 miles between fillups on very poor petrol known as "pool petrol" which was less petrol and more an oil being only 72 octane rating. Cars ran on this stuff lumpy and bumpy a lot, ate spark plugs for a living and backfired often causing exhausts to literally blow off under neath and folks used to pick up dropped exhaust pipes and sold them to local garages who in turn would fit them to the next passing exhaust missing car for a small fee.

[@glmoore001]

Mustie, did you unscrew the black cap on the top the SU carburetors and put in damper oil? If you don't hear a sucking sound when you move them up and down, you need more oil. The oil dampers the rise and fall of the main (?) jets. It takes a light oil, but no idea of the weight.

[@glmoore001]

My friends and all drove junky Brit cars in our teens. I had a 58 AH Bugeye Sprite, two early square body AH Sprites and a Triumph TR4A.

[@alanpettibone]

I have personally never owned an MG, but watching this series kinda gave me the bug. The simplicity and serviceability reminds me more a motorcycle than a modern car. Great job and I always appreciate your resourcefulness.🫡👍🏼

[@gerry-p9x]

Sounds like a singer sewing machine my grandma had

[@gerry-p9x]

Biz owner downtown bought one new as yeen and all these years. Later he still has it during summer he drives ot to work a few times a month

[@jonanderson5137]

I almost bought a Morris Garage 20 years ago from the "lemon lot" . Ended up getting a Mitsubishi. Looking back, I made the wrong choice.

[@robames1293]

The oil line may be like the fuel line fittings which are pipe threads using AF wrenches

[@xcalibre222]

Love these cars. Would own one if I wasn't so Dang poor. Sounds like either a leaky intake valve or timing is off with that back firing thru the carb.