Phil Townsend

Sorry for the delay in getting back, illness ruled for a while. The tag numbers are as quoted in the first post, ie FZX1242R and FZX1242F , and the carbs are still available.

Have you seen my 2000 in the thread lower down?

Pair of HS6 carburettors FZX1242R and FZX1242F originally fitment on a TR7 1976 on. £100 ono as seen

Labradoodle - say no more.

Must have been an A*0 thing, brushing past my car in the garage one morning the headlamp unit fell off..... Held it on with tape and string around the wing mirror - damn useful those wing mirrors!

Austin A40 Mk2 Super De luxe (it had carpets and a heater). Cost £80 and lasted me 4 years. Ace little motor.

The engine can be removed from the top and there is no necessity to remove the gearbox, but you must support the latter. It was over 40 years ago when I did it so can't remember all the details, but the top gearbox to engine bolts I recall were tricky, and I think I removed manifolds etc. before pulling.

Les, the car is still taxed until May 2022 so is likely on the road.

"My first proper job after college was as a trainee manager in a Motorist Discount Centre. I remember the the owner of the chain bragging to us on a training day that he planned to have more shops than Halfrauds by the end of the year. He managed it some time later, and not long after the chain promptly went bust. " I remember MDC, the only credible retail competition to Halfrauds, unless you knew about motor factors! I had a few jobs before 'conning' a company into accepting me as an accountant. Some quick on the job training and ended up as chief accountant for an ex civil service company. Retired at 60 when having been taken over by another company they 'centralised' jobs meaning that the stuff I enjoyed was moved off me and I had the dross left.

Good luck with this, more work than I'd like to do! Obviously I like brown.....

Back to first principles, why are you looking for a repairer? Is that not the job of the insurance company?

Somewhere I have a Mk1 manual, but I think it is stored inaccessibly in my loft. I'll have a look around but it may be fruitless. Sorry.

I'd have to look, but it is a good idea!  

Thanks Rob.  As I say this one has lasted 10 years plus POs use, and started fine this morning at 0700 after 1 week of no use.

I have had my 2000 for 10 years with the battery that the PO had, and I think it is getting to the point where I need a new one as the starting is getting sluggish. The current one is a 063 which has a CCA of 380, but for my MGB I have a 075 which has a CCA of 550, although I'd need to juggle the connections as they are on the opposite side. What battery do others on here use?

I can turn my tap with pliers, so that is ok.  

The heater radiator can be felt and this is definitely hot. Must be the internal flap in my case.

Thanks Rob, I thought that was the case.  Stripping out to replace carpet soon, I'll look at the heater box then.

I get similar issues, due more to the plastic lever having come off the pivot. I have set the valve manually to hot. The hoses and the matrix get hot but only lukewarm air comes out of the vents. I assume that the pivot on the heater box controls a flap internally that stays in a 'cold' position.  Can anyone confirm that?

Am I too daft to think that the clamps are marked with a '+' or a '-' ?