Restart

Well, my father-in-law is coming down in a few weeks and he'll be helping me with the B. I haven't done anything since the end of the year and I hope to finish cleaning out the engine bay before putting everything back together. To make matters even more fun I've decided I need a new workbench and I'm going to be building one. I have the plans and the materials list but it's just been too cold to get everything I need, clean the garage out, and build it. With any luck I'll have the materials before he gets here but, no promises.

Carbs

I took the carbs off and dismantled them. Found out most of my seals were bad so I replaced the ones I had replacements for. Here's a before and after picture. Hopefully after I clean up the rest of the engine bay and put these back on the idle will be much more stable and much lower.

Back in the Garage

Ok, all my other cars are working fine now so I can finally get the MG back to work. She got her first snow, which I'll post once I find my memory stick. Hopefully I'll be able to pull everything off, clean'm up and get it in tip-top shape for the spring.

Back on the Road

Due to the fact my other car needs brakes badly, I've brought the B out of winter hibernation. I changed the plugs and properly gapped them. Looking at the old ones it looks like I'm running massively rich , so I may try to get a colortune to properly do the fuel/air mix. Other than that she's running fine. I still need to get the idle down but I think that's associated with the fuel/air mix problem.

Air/Fuel Mix

I found a post on TheMGExperience explaining how to tune your air/fuel mix with a vacuum gage. Since I've been cheap and haven't bought a colortune or exhaust gas analyzer, I decided to give it a try. I hooked my brake bleeder that has a vacuum gage on it up to the intake manifold and got a wavering 18-19In. This is apparently near perfect so I tried a few adjustments to get the carbs balanced (no unisync either). The end result is that I think I have the carbs tuned in. The engine is still running 1100 rpms so I've got to narrow that down, other than that I think I just need to clean her up. I also realized halfway through the testing that I'd forgotten to check the heater valve. Apparently when it's fully open I think it is...(completely clockwise) that it doesn't leak. I plan on replacing that but until then, it's working.

DPO Visit

So, my mom is visiting for a few days and I decided to put the distributor back on to let her go for a ride before I tore it down. It took 2 days to get the distributor back in since I forgot how it looked before I removed it. In the process I managed to put the wires back on 180 and 90 degrees off. Apparently when you do that it makes the more horrible sounds and at one point backfired and make everyone in the house think I'd shot myself. I finally got it back together and started...only to discover the heater valve is leaking. So, it looks like the B is out of commission for the winter while I dismantle, clean, and fix up everything. I was hoping to take my mom out to show it works but with the coolant leaking it's not worth trying. Oh well, more pics to come once I get back to work on her.

Distributor Removed

Step 1 was to remove the distributor, clean it up, set the points, etc. After removing it I've decided to clean everything up and see what I can do during the winter.