[Fwd: Re: [mg-tabc] B/C box heritage]

[wargs]

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] B/C box heritage Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 21:07:22 -0800 From: wargs wargs@Mac.com To: Erik Koik erikkoik@foryou.net CC: Peter Pleitner pleitner@dundee.net, T-ABCs List mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com References: NFBBKKNNCLANPHLDPENGCEOFCAAA.erikkoik@foryou.net Agree 100%, Erik! My wife's 105 Junior steering set-up puts a lot more expensive cars to shame. Let's hear it for the re-circulating ball! David Lodge Erik Koik wrote:

>Giulietta! Now there's a steering box. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Peter Pleitner [pleitner@dundee.net] >Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 5:12 PM >To: T-ABCs List >Subject: [mg-tabc] B/C box heritage > > >Hi Bone Heads, > >Why not write a script for Montey Python on the subject? All this >entertaining yelling, wormy logic, and emotion is going to waste on this >exclusive LIST. > >Lets face it, most post depression British sports car design approvals were >made by accountants, DB, Lyon, and Chapman excepted. Seriously now, how >about some research on this steering subject. Last century I speculated >that the B/C box (steering by faith and constant prayer) was

forced upon MG

>by Morris Motors when OHC engines were outlawed, both to engineer cost out >of the product. I'd like to hear from MMM owners/historians as to the >relative design merits of the Marles Weller Steering Gear vis a vis the B/C >box. I've never had the privilege of inspecting the M/W box, but the >description "Into this groove is inserted a follower, on each side of which >and deeply embedded in it are two steel hemispheres which make contact with >the sides of the cam track" sounds to me superior to the B/C box's tapered >peg. > >As to Badger's comment about his Ace with B/C box, all I can say is two >local friends have 289 Cobras (one an FIA), both restored as original. >Neither have kind words to say about their steering. And my first car was a >TR-3 also with B/C steering. MGA/Bs were well known at that time to have >vastly superior steering. Unfortunately I could only convince my father to >let me buy a used sp

orts car because the Triumph had a Massey Ferguson

>engine! Now I'm restoring two Giuliettas which were built up using >wonderful, beautiful and expensive parts. > >BTW Our MGT Register chapter imported several Datsun boxes about ten years >ago. Almost half our TCs have them now. > >So let that knowledge and research shed some perspective on our defense of >the B/C box. > >Cheers, Peter > >PS: I couldn't believe it, but I actually found and purchased an original >and very good condition Nuffield MG Midget Series TC sales brochure (export >edition) at the 50th Detroit Autorama (hot rod and custom car show) this >weekend! > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to [url=http://docs.yahoo.com/info/te [/quote]rms/]http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

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[wargs]

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] B/C box heritage Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 21:11:09 -0800 From: wargs wargs@mac.com To: Ray spook01@home.com CC: T-ABCs List mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com, Peter Pleitner pleitner@dundee.net References: MBBBLAAIPLDKDBILICLIKEOMDGAA.pleitner@dundee.net 004601c1be5f$e1b09060$a1583544@nash01.tn.comcast.net "Jolly good! And they're real cabbages are they?" David Lodge Ray wrote:

"Allllways look on the brrrriiiiiiight side of life!!" "Right now; come at me with the banana- be as savage as you like...." "Oh, abuse is down the hall-" in the BC rebuilding area! I know, I have one! But hey, it's FUN! Best Regards, Ray "Remember- It's the collision with the planet that counts!" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Pleitner" pleitner@dundee.net To: "T-ABCs List" mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 4:11 PM Subject: [mg-tabc] B/C box heritage Hi Bone Heads, Why not write a script for Montey Python on the subject? All this entertaining yelling, wormy logic, and emotion is going to waste on this

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