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My 1975 MGB

1959/60 Volvo 445


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Blown Rear Main Seal - different engine!


Slipping Flywheel
Motor Mounts - front & rear spring pictures

Holley TBI Fuel Injection
DUAL Exhaust
Car/Air Filter, electric

Fan, wheels 07/99

Before Final Paint
Car Weight
Spark Pictures
A Better Tach Circuit pics
My Digital Tach Circuit
Putting it together
After the Paint job

Engine Info
Windshield, Speakers
Mystery Parts 01/98
Radio and Mavica
Digital Camera 01/98

Shocks Bottom Out
Transmission &
Rear End

It Runs 11/97
First 300 Miles 04/16/98
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Mystery Parts - Leons 215 V8 MGB

01/02/98 - Mystery parts, oil leak, radiator

The front seal is fixed, no more leaking. Didn't go with the rubber seal, put a new rope seal back in. The hold down rim on the old one came off. I think it was a case of definitive words - "When you put the keeper on behind the new rope seal, make sure you put it on tight." The key words here are "on tight". It's not until you put the engine together, load it up, start it, and run it that you find out someone else's "on tight" is tighter than your "on tight".

The front fenders are on, lights work. photo11.jpg (172381 bytes)

The radiator bottle is relocated to the upper left side as you look at the front of the car. photo10.jpg (40604 bytes)

Oil filter is mounted on the upper part of the fender well. photo8.jpg (56667 bytes)

Here's a shot of the radiator, local shop made it for me, 4 core. Dual fans to the left, in front of the radiator, oil filter is visible just over the alternator.photo9.jpg (61469 bytes)

.Whoops - The front main seal is seeping oil. Seems it may be the wrong rope seal in there. With more than 10 years of being shuffled around, I'm please this is one of very few lost/missing/unidentified parts. The suggestion was made to have the front cover of the bearing grooved and a rubber/spring loaded bearing put in. That's the way we're going to go.

NOT Mystery parts - image14.jpg (36794 bytes) Thanks to Roger Parker. The part on the left is from the front wing of the windshield and the one on the left is the oil splash card from just under the rocker cover. THANKS Roger.