MGB GT fettling

[Steve79]

Fuck the Mazda, get that AEC Mamouth Major sorted and running

Fairly sure it's a Militant mk3

[Scruffy Bodger]

Fuck the Mazda, get that AEC Mamouth Major sorted and running

Fairly sure it's a Militant mk3

I asked about it the other week, it starts and runs apparently but the clutch is seized on, it was driven to where it's parked.

[mercrocker]

Fuck the Mazda, get that AEC Mamouth Major sorted and running

Fairly sure it's a Militant mk3

It is.

[Scruffy Bodger]

It just goes to show how 405's are suited for places like Iran. It turns out the rad fans on the Inastate aren't working at all, rad switch I should think. As long as you are moving it doesn't even start to move the needle unless on a long incline. I wouldn't like it sat in traffic too long but a quick blast of the heaters n flat out and it stops climbing. That was driving with it at 35 degrees too.

[Hooli]

I can't remember which car it was but I had one that didn't get hot enough to trigger the fans sat idling. I think the rad radiated enough heat due to its size.

[Scruffy Bodger]

I can't remember which car it was but I had one that didn't get hot enough to trigger the fans sat idling. I think the rad radiated enough heat due to its size.

This isn't that good, the turbo won't help either.

[paulplom]

I thought there wasn't many cars that did fire the fans up. I thought they were just there for extreme circumstances. The only time I've heard fan noise is with the aircon running.

[Scruffy Bodger]

I thought there wasn't many cars that did fire the fans up. I thought they were just there for extreme circumstances. The only time I've heard fan noise is with the aircon running.

The pugs got 2 stage, the first one you can't hear with the engine running, 2nd stage brings both on flat out and there's no mistaking it then.

[Scruffy Bodger]

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First proper FTP with the Inastate this morning. I'd lent it to the old man for 3 days as he still hasn't got a courtesy car while the Z is away He comes to mine this morning saying "I've fucked your battery so I bought you another one" He got some branded thing I've never heard of so just done a 25 mile round trip and given them another tenner for a Varta. A bit strange as the first one supplied was an 075 and the Varta seems rather under specced?

Tbh the battery on the car has been lagging since I had it so has done well to last this long but earlier it wouldn't even light the dash lights so totally fucked. It still started and ran fine after a jump start, one of the advantages of zero ecus on board.

A few spots for that Vactan I bought too by the looks of it.

[Scruffy Bodger]

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I thought I'd better do that fan switch, went fine, lost so little coolant I managed to over fill it in the bright sunshine

Decided to see what I have in the way of fans, on high one turns plenty, the othe not so much, I think I found out why? I tried to solder some wires to the 2 iffy/snapped terminals but they won't hold so ordered another one off Ebay, bloody thing still works OK too. Bridging things out got the fan going and it's nice and quiet, I bet it hasn't worked for years.

Now all I need is some of those terminal connections.