There is a rubber strip, part half round half flat. Abingdon Spares part # 43-001. Fitted with short wood nails/tacks into the body. Make sure that they have small heads and do not end up proud of the rubber strip or they will rub against the bonnet.

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If the air cleaner is indeed an original, the brown book has a diagram of what is inside and I strongly recommend you leave it well alone and put it on a shelf (where indeed mine is.) Then if you want a period look buy a repro (much simpler inside) and do the conversion to that. By the way, I have m...

For better performance I suggest that your original distributor is rebuilt with an advance curve matched to modern fuels. You keep the originality as well.

TC3382 / MG 7305

Get the wheels fully balanced (all 5). It never ceases to amaze me how few 19" wheels are balanced when I go to a M.G. meeting. Yes, you need to go to a tyre place that has the cones or get your own (MWS in Langley UK will sell them) but consider the diameter of the wheel and how it will multiply th...

Following on from Tom's analysis, I strongly suggest that once everything he has listed is done the car is then taken to a rolling road and properly set up. You would be amazed at the effect that spot on timing and balanced carburettors with the correct needles has. More power, better heat dissipati...

I am a great believer in imitation. My engine was built by George Edney to a high specification. I asked him what he used in his racing engine and he showed me Valvoline VR1 20/50, so that is what I use.

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If I remember rightly, the hole in the axle is tapered, thus there is no option as to which way the taper pin goes. The question is which way does the axle go?

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Looking at the quick release steering wheel, you obviously have had to leave out the sprung C clip on top of the column originally put there to stop the steering wheel coming off. A certain well known personality here in the UK told the tale of this being missing on a TC of his in the 60's and he en...

Picking up on the comment that it is crazy to have an MOT or roadworthiness test on a 70 year old car. Legally in the UK this requirement was removed about 5 years ago, a most retrograde step. I am horrified by the number of people who have taken the opportunity to save GBP 55 and thus put their, an...

My advice is to ensure the car is reliable before you set off, ie iron out any bugs. To carry a garage worth of spares will be both expensive, heavy and take up space you and particularly your navigator cannot afford. Therefore I suggest you get the appropriate recovery deal, identify which garages ...

The 2 smaller bolts you refer to are in fact studs in the centre of the spring and do 2 things. The first is to hold the spring together when it is not on the car and the second is to hold the plates with the shock absorber mountings on in the right place. The four larger ones are at the corners of ...

The other problem with putting 1 1/2" carbs on an XPAG is that they will be too big unless you seriously uprate the engine, this effect being particularly apparent at lower revs. That is to say the air being drawn into the engine will be going too slowly to properly draw the fuel in off the bridge t...

Dear All

First XPAG, # 501 fitted to first TB0251. 379 TB's built.

501 + 379 =880.

TC0251 was the prototype.

TC0252 had XPAG 884 fitted from new. Engines were not fitted in strict numerical order. It all adds up.

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TC3382 with original engine XPAG4017 = 635

The knock off spinners actually have the side that they are meant to be on cast into them, see here for example:

http://www.holden.co.uk/displayproduct. ... de=060.657

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I recommend 2 methods. The first is to get a proper vintage tyre shop to change the tyre and balance the wheel. I use MWS in Langley, West London. The second, if the first is not practical, is to go to your local tyre company with a jar and ask for some of the goo they spread on tyres when fitting. ...

Dear Phil

'Twas I mixing bases and bodies. Many thanks, brass base it is.

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Doing a little research, Michael Sherrell states that the brass body continued on into the early TCs. Can this be narrowed down a little more from Circa chassis 4000 and 'early'? I must declare an interest, I need to buy a new pump and my car is TC3382!

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Dear All

Did any TC leave the factory with a brass bodied fuel pump (AUA25)?

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Coach building is the only cost effective way of building (low set up cost even if expensive per unit) when you are producing very small production runs. Remember MG's were only built in tens, hundreds or thousands until the TD. Also the T Type was essentially obsolete (cf the BMW 317) when introduc...

Do not forget to read the Brown Book on body fitment if the door does not fit the hole. Essentially you put packing pieces (I call them penny washers) judiciously between the chassis mount and the body as appropriate. This will lift the front or back of the body and slightly raise or lower the door ...