Hi All,
I’m looking into having my motor sent away for works (front and rear oil seal upgrade etc) can any of you recommend anybody here in the UK? And people to avoid!
Thanks in advance.
XPAG Motor
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ROGER FURNEAUX
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Re: XPAG Motor
You could try Brown & Gammons, they cover all models but have years of experience going right back to Ron's racing days.
George Edney has as much experience, and his son Peter is getting going again after the disastrous fire.
Other than that, have you thought of doing it yourself? Every part is available, and there is copious literature (even a video of a presentation that George & Peter gave at a T-Register Rebuild seminar). There are many engine rebuilders who will handle all the machining, although most are more familiar with Ford engines used extensively in racing & rallying.
There have have been many posts on this forum, but also look at mgexp.com: you could spend days just reading through them!
Roger
TC0978
MGB
ZT-T 260
George Edney has as much experience, and his son Peter is getting going again after the disastrous fire.
Other than that, have you thought of doing it yourself? Every part is available, and there is copious literature (even a video of a presentation that George & Peter gave at a T-Register Rebuild seminar). There are many engine rebuilders who will handle all the machining, although most are more familiar with Ford engines used extensively in racing & rallying.
There have have been many posts on this forum, but also look at mgexp.com: you could spend days just reading through them!
Roger
TC0978
MGB
ZT-T 260
Re: XPAG Motor
There is one enormous advantage to "doing it oneself" and that is the confidence to use the car and not just leave it in the garage and only visit local shows. Bearing in mind that the more you do yourself then every rattle or strange noise can often be located through your own knowledge so acquired or with advice from others as Roger mentions. These cars are basically 70 + years old. They`ve already lived a life and travelled thousands of enjoyable miles in your ownership they should be "allowed" to travel thousands more- unless of course you just like polishing.
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Franz Tenbrock
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Re: XPAG Motor
Hi
with the help here and mgexp it is possible to do nearly all on this little cars
i haven t done a engine rebuild but i would do it
have done so much different work on my car,
some trouble ok, but at the end it was always much better then before
if you do it yourself , you see the problems and you solve it, if you give it away, you don t see it and you don t know if it is fixed as it should be fixed
THX to all here every time
with the help here and mgexp it is possible to do nearly all on this little cars
i haven t done a engine rebuild but i would do it
have done so much different work on my car,
some trouble ok, but at the end it was always much better then before
if you do it yourself , you see the problems and you solve it, if you give it away, you don t see it and you don t know if it is fixed as it should be fixed
THX to all here every time
Re: XPAG Motor
Back in 1975 I had my XPAG block bored and sleeved back to standard and the crank reground to -.040" by North Wilts Engineering in Swindon - a firm long defunct now I'm afraid. I reassembled the engine with all new parts, ran it up successfully and then forgot about it for 40 years. In 2015 I picked up the long neglected restoration of the car again and although the engine had done no miles in the interim I deemed it sensible to strip it down and check every thing was still sound after such a long interregnum. This time I also sent the head to Peter Edney for larger valves and hardened inserts for unleaded petrol and after reassembly it now runs very well. It's not a difficult engine to work on and even if you need to farm out machining work, reassembly is straightforward.