Wilsons Sandbox

I have just seen this.  These are the people who bought Barry Walker's MG spares business and added it to their Riley parts business - hence the Blue Diamond (the Riley badge). http://blue-diamond-services.co.uk/preparing-the-mg-tc/ Roger

You can read more about the TC in the Monte Carlo Classique on the T Register s website which contains links to where you can see John Lomas and Dan Hunter whilst travelling through the UK, and links to the live tracker they will have in the car for the whole event.They are extremely welcoming of T Type owners giving them support in their venture and good places to meet them are at their departure from Bicester Heritage on 30 January and at the Banbury departure on 1 February, as well as at Paisley Abbey in Glasgow for the main start of the event. http://www.mgcc.co.uk/t-register/news/ David

I see that they have worked on the engine, clutch & gearbox, but have done nothing to the back axle...big mistake, they could have quite a can of worms in there!!! Recently I received a diff. for rebuild which had obviously never seen the light of day for many years: the oil was black, very thick and VERY smelly! It would not have lasted long with normal road cruising, let alone on an arduous winter rally. So letg us hope the Monte Carlo TC is in better shape axle-wise. I'm sure we all wish the Blue Diamond lads every success, but would not be surprised to hear that they had to retire due to diff. or half-shaft problems... Season's Greetings Roger

On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 9:32 AM, David Wardell dwardell@talktalk.net [mg-tabc] mg-tabc-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: [u][/u] You can read more about the TC in the Monte Carlo Classique on the T Register s website which contains links to where you can see John Lomas and Dan Hunter whilst travelling through the UK, and links to the live tracker they will have in the car for the whole event.They are extremely welcoming of T Type owners giving them support in their venture and good places to meet them are at their departure from Bicester Heritage on 30 January and at the Banbury departure on 1 February, as well as at Paisley Abbey in Glasgow for the main start of the event. http://www.mgcc.co.uk/t- register/news/ David

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I agree with Roger- The big bearing of my Pinion (original bronze cage) was in great apparent conditions when I begin the dismantlebut collapsed and disintegrated at the first attempt of separation from the pinion, in very little pieces. I think that bad oil chosen fro P;Os, have corroded the bronze- I consider me very lucky that this happened during the revision-  and not with the car on the road-  Lesson Learned ALL NEW BEARINGS must be used on a 70 years old car rear axleThe reason of the R,A dismantle was the obvious flooding of oil on the rear brakes- that stopped in the garages this car for more than 10 yearsNOW all right with the -R.A.seal kit- new shafts-new hubs.and ALL new BEARINGscontrolled few weeks ago -after a year of severe use - all right. no flooding  brakes-very little oil infiltration on the opposite face of the brake covers...... (suggestion well accepted) I hope that on the MG TC that go to the M-C-rally,  same works was done from P-O. and experienced engineers haveonly controlled "if all are right" on this ACHILLE Heel of our MG Il Sabato 30 Dicembre 2017 15:20, "Roger Furneaux roger.46tc@gmail.com [mg-tabc]" mg-tabc-noreply@yahoogroups.com> ha scritto:   I see that they have worked on the engine, clutch & gearbox, but have done nothing to the back axle...big mistake, they could have quite a can of worms in there!!!  Recently I received a diff. for rebuild which had obviously never seen the light of day for many years: the oil was black, very thick and VERY smelly! It would not have lasted long with normal road cruising, let alone on an arduous winter rally. So letg us hope the Monte Carlo TC is in better shape axle-wise. I'm sure we all wish the Blue Diamond lads every success, but would not be surprised to hear that they had to retire due to diff. or half-shaft problems... Season's Greetings Roger On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 9:32 AM, David Wardell dwardell@talktalk.net [mg-tabc] mg-tabc-noreply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

[u][/u]   You can read more about the TC in the Monte Carlo Classique on the T Register s website which contains links to where you can see John Lomas and Dan Hunter whilst travelling through the UK, and links to the live tracker they will have in the car for the whole event.They are extremely welcoming of T Type owners giving them support in their venture and good places to meet them are at their departure from Bicester Heritage on 30 January and at the Banbury departure on 1 February, as well as at Paisley Abbey in Glasgow for the main start of the event. http://www.mgcc.co.uk/t- register/news/ David

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Bill-I do have yellow metal friendly gear oil in both.  Thanks.  I am betting the steelcages on the new SKF double row (big) pinion bearing will take combined loads better than the original brass caged.  Fingers crossed.  Duncan-TC9866/exuCA From: Bill Hyatt usaj24@earthlink.net> To: Duncan morelists@yahoo.com> Cc: "mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com" mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, January 1, 2018 1:15 PM Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Re: 2018 Monte Carlo Challenge by MG TC [1 Attachment] Duncan/Andrea: Vintage gear lubes did incorporates sulphur and phosphates additives that were destructive to yellow  metals in tranny & diff.bearings. However modern GL-1, , 4,& 5 year lubes have eliminated usage of these additives & are safe to use withYellow syncro. rings & bearing cages if these parts are still in usable condition. Call customer service at your favorite gear lube source (Castrol, Redline, Valvoline, et al to confirm. -Bill HyattSent from my iPhone