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MG TD TF 1500 - tear downs are always interesting

Removed the carbs on Bill's TC and found this. An interesting assortment of nuts, studs and retainers.

MG LaVerne

From left, numbers 1 and 3 are correct.
Steve S

LaVerne - I have a manifold retainer if Bill needs one.
Cheers - Dave
David DuBois

Not quite Steve, the stud has been replaced on number 3 with something with longer threads...you can't see it in the picture.

That would be good David, I just got off the phone with Bill and he is about to send the pumps. Car is and will remain positive ground. He isn't aware of the need for the retainer yet but I'd like to replace what's there now.
MG LaVerne

Ah if we only had a visual/audio and/or written narrative about what our baby's have been put through! The stories (and rationales and reasons and excuses!) the POs and DPOs would tell would have us shaking our heads at the least and in tears at the worst!
There are probably threads somewhere in the Archives about "Walls of Shame" for the seemingly obscure "patches" made to our cars.
Randy
R Biallas

Although functional I'm guessing this connection isn't what it was supposed to be. Notice the exhaust pipe through bolt as well. I believe there is a new stud in one of the boxes but I'd bet the threads are stripped.

I can't fault a PO for what they did to keep em going Randy. In the past some parts were difficult if not impossible to find, so you just did what you had to to keep em going. The retainer doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling about the engine rebuild he said it had about about 100 miles on it before he parked it.

MG LaVerne

If it were me, I'd pull the head and the oil pan, both very easy on a TC. I'd check the lower end, plastiguage the bearings and change the front seal over to the two lip Volvo cam seal. I'd pull the head, check the valves, camshaft and tappets and give everything a good look. I've seen stripped connecting rod nuts, wrong torque, rods in backwards, etc.
You may want to replace the valves, the exhaust has a nasty habit of snapping off and marrying the piston.
Just my $.02
-David
D. Sander

#2 (from left) looks a bit long, maybe because of the home-made block, but #3 looks right when looking at the threads protruding from the clamp. Or maybe we're looking at our numbers opposite of each other!

That slow running control isn't far from correct but not quite right. Should have a little L shaped piece, and a cable anchor at the end. It's surprising how crude the slow running control really is, but obviously it works well. Can't find a photo but I'm sure there is one on the net somewhere.

Looks like you're having all sorts of DPO fun. :)
Steve S

Looks like the castle nut from an engine stabilizer for #4 :-)
Chris Couper

The TC does not have the stabilizer that the TD TF have. It does look like that nut, but this nut should have metric threads.
-David
D. Sander

I owned my TC from 1958 until I went to work for International Harvester in '62. They said that I could not call on farm equipment dealers with a foreign car. In those days it was just a 10 year old car, and you did not find MG dealers in most small towns anyway.

David Werblow

Slow running control
http://www.mg-tabc.org/library/slow_running_control.htm

Carburetor linkage
http://www.mg-tabc.org/library/carb-linkage.htm
Gene Gillam

Steve Simmons mentioned that L shaped bracket for the slow running cable at the carb, I have some extra, glad to send you one...email me.
Terry in Oakland
Terry Sanders

This thread was discussed between 27/01/2014 and 05/02/2014

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