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MG TD TF 1500 - OT-Leno restores a Daimler

Jay is into LBC's again. He just finished (he?) his '59 Daimler hemi. Lots of vids of the process. Watch what happens about 20 minutes in! Happens to all of us Jay...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzudBhWap0

I know, "post a link". I can't, this site just does this sometimes. Cut & paste.
Anybody ever looked into one of those Tremec 5-speeds?
Ed
efh Haskell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpzudBhWap0


Just take the s off https
Steven Devine

Cut and paste works fine. Good ol' TD with 14.7 psi (0 psig) system avoids that issue :-) Jud
J K Chapin

Steve, you solved an old mystery for a lot of us!! Thank you!
Ed
efh Haskell

Yes I have

MG LaVerne

And I've driven the one behind this 427. Give em a call and see what they would charge you do do a custom spline (or useable off the shelf clutch) and find somebody to make you a custom bell housing. When they get done giggling, price a custom drive shaft and figure out a hydraulic system for the internal slave cylinder throw out bearing. Then figure out how to mount it and the modifications needed for the interior. I'm guessing it's gonna take a fair amount of our meager hp to turn the gearing in one of these.

Good tranny's but to fit one (and I have serious doubts about that) would be beyond the cost of what is presently available.

MG LaVerne

As Rosanna Rosanadana said "Never mind!"
efh Haskell

I'm kind of surprised that he thinks the radiator cap has anything to do with running temperature, or that a cooler thermostat would help it run cooler. He MUST know better than that.

The car has cooling issues, period. Probably a combination of nearly doubling the horsepower, and timing, mixture, valve etc settings.
Steve Simmons

Yup, I kinda wondered why, if the cap wasn't sealing to create a pressurized system, steam was blowing out under pressure down below the radiator. Seems that if there was no pressure at the top of the radiator there'd be little or none at the bottom. Just guessin'. Jud
J K Chapin

He did say "...the radiator was empty...", didn't he? That would account for the high running temp, no?
efh Haskell

The steam at the bottom was probably coming from the overflow pipe. The problem is that he had a long filler neck (common on British vehicles of the day) with a modern short cap. So the rubber seal wasn't contacting the bottom of the neck. Therefore when the water began to boil, the steam went right past the cap seal and out the overflow pipe, which exhausts at the bottom of the radiator.

I didn't remember him saying the radiator was empty, but if it was then how did it get that way? If running at 212+ with a non-functional pressure cap then you could lose a lot of water through evaporation.

First thing I would have done is coast down the hill and buy some water bottles to re-fill with. Then see what happens on the way home.
Steve Simmons

Steve,
"I didn't remember him saying the radiator was empty, but ..."

It's at about 24:20 in. "...we lost all our water.."
I'm sure he has "people" who but the water!
Ed

efh Haskell

that's "buy the water.."
efh Haskell

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