An easy upgrade from the old Lucas alternator to a modern 90+ amp alternator

Welcome to our Tech Tips section. Here we have tips for maintaining your MG listed by category and by model. The general tips are those that cover any model MG. Please note: Some of these techniques offered here are rather drastic and are undertaken at your own risk. The Chicagoland MG Club cannot accept any responsibility for injury, loss, or damage incurred by any of these methods.

Some Useful articles with pictures covering such things as (1) Restoring Old Paintwork (2) Spark Plugs (a chart to help diagnose engine related problems) (3) Setting up and tuning SU Carburettors (4) Tuning and fault finding using a vacuum gauge (5) Waking the dead

Check it out if you're looking for some advice - the above is just a sample!

Perhaps none of our products are what you need. Maybe you want to keep your Little British Car stock, and just want to repair what you have. In that case, you might want a wiring diagram for your car that you can actually read! To help you, we have redrawn as many of the wiring digrams as we could find. To make them more readable, not only have we re-arranged them, we have also drawn them in color, with each wire printed in its correct color code.

Talk to any cam grinder, engine builder, or racer and you’ll find overwhelming agreement that “degreeing-in” a camshaft is a vital step along the route to optimum engine performance. At first that may seem strange because “degreeing-in” a cam pertains to checking the accuracy with which it was manufactured.

Actually, by degreeing-in a camshaft, you’re insuring that valve opening and closing events are in accordance with specifications, regardless of the cause. Actual valve opening and closing events are influenced not only by accuracy with which a cam was ground, but also timing chain stretch, keyway position in the crankshaft, crank timing sprocket, and dowel pin hole position in the cam sprocket also play a major role.

Griot's Garage car care tips

How to read a vacuum gauge with nice animated examples.

I wanted to increase the "drivability" of the car by having the overdrive drop out at stop signs. The solution I arrived at is a device called "toggle flip-flop". I tried to keep it as simple and reliable as possible, so it is implemented with four relays and a resistor (resistor value is approximately twice the relay coil resistance). I used relays from a Dodge Stratus because of their relatively small size, but almost any single-pole double throw (SPDT) relay can be used.

John's sharing his tips as videos on YouTube - some interesting stuff. Check it out if you're a visual learner or if the books just aren't making any sense

Meguiar’s Complete Video Guide Hot Product Videos, Detailing Tips and TV Commercials. You can find a complete listing of all the Meguiar’s Car Care videos including exclusive detailing secrets, car care demonstrations, product videos and more!

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A nice guide written by the friendly folks at Victoria British to help with installation of a new interior in an MGB roadster. See the Parts & Service links for a link to their web site or click here

Mothers brand of car care products own guide to car detailing

MGA! Tech Session Reprints Now Available

Links available on the NAMGBR site

Very helpful guides: (1) A picture guide to building an Octarine engine (2) MGB 1800 Engine building guide (3) MGB 4 sychro overdrive gearbox servicing guide

An article by Tom Sotomayor. This article is not intended as a “how to” installation guide, but rather to assist in selecting the correct model overdrive transmission (or OD for short) for any given year MGB. Selecting the proper one from the start will likely be the most cost-effective choice in the long run!

Repairing the MGB Rubber Bumpers By John “The MG Doc” Mangles, owner – All British Car Repair
As a professional restorer, I’ve been asked many times how to repair / refinish the rubber bumpers of the MGB. After years of use, many bumpers have nicks and scratches as well as a weathered look due to sun bleaching. In this article, I’ll try to explain how to properly refresh their appearance.

Getting my 72 MGB operational again I have had the opportunity to tackle several jobs I have never thought of before, or that I have any experience in tackling. The fuel tank sending unit was one such job and so I thought I’d share my findings on how to fix this. No big secret for many perhaps, but, if you’ve never had to deal with this, it’s not nearly as bad as I (or you) might have thought. This took about 30 mins for me including taking a few pictures at each step.

Tony Barnhill's (The Autoist) collection of tech tips from he and his friends.

The S.U. carburettor is one of the simplest carburettors ever invented! Unfortunately, following discussions with many people, the operational principles of this carburettor appear to be poorly understood. SU carburetors have a minimal number of moving parts and are easy to tune, providing of course you understand the operational principles! It is the intention of this article to help clarify those principles in the hopes that many owners will be able to tune and maintain their SU carburtetors aided by better knowledge and less blind experimentation.

A short but sweet tutorial on how to true your own wire wheels.

Use this searchable archive to find the answer to your technical question! John has answered many questions - and nearly all the Q&As are posted within this database. There are currently 722 that can be searched. You can browse the archive as well.

Replace Your MGB's Thermal Voltage Stabilizer with a Solid State Regulator Inside the Lucas Case

When a recent Midget project ran poorly after an engine rebuild due to an over rich mixture, I decided it was finally time to find out what makes the water choke mechanism so mysterious and widely despised by many owners of later model MGs. I scoured the MG archives (http://www.mgcars.org.uk), got my manuals together and ripped into it. After studying for a short time, I thought some pictures would help and grabbed my digital camera. By the time I was done, I had a pile of pictures and notes, an