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FOR SALE FOR SALE

MGB 1977 Silicone Radiator Hoses Brand new unused set of red silicone hoses to suit MGB 1977 to 1980. Was $130 will accept $75. Contact Jon 0466 630 400

MGF 1998 Green Condition Used First Reg Date 10/98 Price $7800 Mileage 122576 Transmission Manual 5 speed Doors. 2 Engine. 1.8L Power KW. 88 Reg No. S868ADM Description Near new tyres, Canvas roof, original 4 CD stacker radio Contact. Dean Baker Mobile 0401465948 Email [email protected]

Model cars A collection of thirteen models of MG cars – 8 MGB Tourers, 2 MGB BT’s and 3 MG-TC’s Each of the cars are / is in the original packaging and therefore they are all in mint condition. I purchased these models at the time that I was a member of the MG Car Club and owned two MG’B’s – a tourer and a GT. I would like to offer my collection for sale to any interested person. I would prefer to sell the collection as a whole package. Contact Andre Wilson – Kapunda E mail. [email protected]

CONTENTS

Editorial……………………….….. 5

Presidents Report……………….. 6

New Members……………………. 6

MGC News………………………. 8

Club Registration Notice …………. 10

Technical Topic……………………. 11

MGA/Magnette News……………… 14

Library News……………………… 16

McLaren Vale Classic Promo …… 17

MGB Register news, & Tech topic 20

T & Prewar Register Report…….... 24

Mid Week Lunch Run Report…….. 30

Pre-War Meet Canberra …………. 32

Calendar…………………………… 33

Trade Directory………………….. 34

Classifieds……………………….. 35

March 2021 Volume 61 Number 2

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MG MOTORING

MG MOTORING is the official publication of:

The MG Car Club of SA Inc. 93 Chief Street,

BROMPTON SA 5007 A.B.N. 37 304 683 381 Phone (08) 8346 7747

E-mail [email protected] Web-site: www.mgccsa.org.au.

www.facebook.com/MGCarClubofSA

Postal address P.O. Box 200

BROMPTON SA 5007

The articles printed in this publication do not necessarily represent the views of the

MG Car Club of S.A. Inc. or the Editor. Technical tips and methods suggested are

the views of the person submitting them and the Club cannot accept responsibility

for the accuracy of these whatsoever.

See details for submitting articles on Page 4.

Cover Photo T Register Meeting at Richmonds

Classic car showroom

MG Car Club of South Australia - Committee Appointments 2020/2021

PATRON Ed Ordynski

AUDITOR Graham Tull

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

HONORARY POSITIONS

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PRESIDENT Tim Edmonds Mob. 0419 804 645 E: [email protected]

VICE PRESIDENT Neil Williams Mob: 0419 308 397 E: [email protected]

SECRETARY Berry Treffers Mob: 0434 485 331 E: [email protected]

ASST. SECRETARY Bev Waters Mob: 0402 262 156 E: [email protected]

TREASURER Alan Cardnell Ph: 8264 9168 E: [email protected]

MAGAZINE EDITOR Laurie Houghton . Ph: 8356 9953 E: [email protected]

MOTORSPORT SEC. Bev Waters Mob: 0402 262 156 E: [email protected]

ASST. M/SPORT SEC. Steve Bowra Ph: 0417 829 864 E: [email protected]

SOCIAL SECRETARY

SEC. OF REGISTERS Ken Burke .Ph 83829821 m: 0488541646 E:[email protected]

GENERAL COMMITTEE

Peter Auld Ph: 0418 848 400 [email protected]

Tim Johnson Ph: 0400 136 631 [email protected]

REGISTER CO-ORDINATORS

MGA/MAGNETTE Sandra Cardnell ..Phone: 8264 9168 [email protected]

MGB Nick Phillips Email: [email protected] Ph: 0415 681 406

MGF,& Moderns Neil Williams [email protected] Mob: 0419 308 397

MGC Ian Hobbs PO Box 625 MYLOR SA 5153’ Ph: 8388 5600 Email: [email protected] Mob: 0417 877 127

FWD,MIDGET Anthony Pearson Phone: 8278 4393

T & PRE-WAR John Bray Ph. 8278 5133 Mob. 0403 043 434. Email. [email protected]

IMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Adrian Ward

Please now use this generic email address

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FOR SALE FOR SALE

MGB Wire Wheels 60 spokes. 40cms diameter. Chrome painted and in good condition, some surface rust. Price: $600.00 Contact: Jen Burnett-Read M: 0431 924 202

MG Midget Stop/Tail Lights, Two brand new Lucas originals, boxed PN. 53178L48812vB1161 Price: $190.00 Also other old car parts, not MG ie; Motor Radi Meter (old Ford) and green top car display aerial etc; Contact Suzanne Bolland M: 0497 106 418 E: [email protected]

Model MGTC Year 15th Sept 1949 74795 Miles. Car number TC9693 TC Green. Trim Green Complete Moss kit Jan 2021 Engine No XPAG 10448 (matching numbers). Chrome All redone Body removed before individually re-painting, Engine reconditioned prior to purchase and runs really well with no known problems. Registered 1st time since restoration in Jan 2021, on Club rego. Travelled less than 30 miles since back on road Can arrange delivery to purchaser Asking price $36000 ono Contact Richard Venning . Wallaroo SA M: 0428 211 213 E: [email protected] A lot more photos are on the MGCCSA website

FREE TO CLUB MEMBERS 3 MGB Rosryle wheels Contact Frank Pegg M: 0429 369 645


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TRADE DIRECTORY

TWO TIMS SHIRAZ

2016 MCLAREN VALE Rated 94 points

Leath Hunt: 0412 646 931 www.twotims.com.au

Leath Hunt is offering their 2016 SHIRAZ

To Club members for $120.00a case (12) as a Xmas special

Delivered free into the Adelaide metropolitan area.

Logon to their website for reviews etc; www.twotims.com.au

Email: [email protected] M: 0412 646 931

MG Car Club of South Australia - Committee Appointments 2020/2021

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COMMITTEE APPOINTMENTS

LIBRARY Stephen Marlow . Mob 0409 600 557

PARADES & DISPLAYS Dick Manning Mob: 0412 818 019.

BREAKFAST RUNS Steven Spong Ph: 8370 8913 . John Roach 0430 400 181

REGALIA Barry Spencer 0417500369 E: [email protected]

CLUB REGISTRATION

Geoffrey Goode . Ph: 82673740, [email protected] Arthur Ruediger M: 0417843164 Email: [email protected]

CAMS DELEGATE Murray Stephenson 0419 565 970 E: [email protected]

WEBMASTER Mark Abraham [email protected] Mob. 0417414363

BAR MANAGER Berry Treffers M: 0434 485 331 E:[email protected]

MAINTENANCE Officer Sandra Cardnell 82649168 E: [email protected]

F H M DELEGATE Geoffrey Goode Ref Historic Registration

MID WEEK LUNCH RUNS Graham Loader, Roger Polkinghorne, 0416151295 Gary Chapman 0423488039 Mike Greenwood 0412 701 850

NOTE TO ALL CONTRIBUTORS, AND ANYONE ELSE WISHING TO CON-TACT THE FOLLOWING COMMITTEE MEMBERS BY EMAIL ARE ADVISED

OF THE NEW EMAIL ADDRESSES FOR 5 OFTHESE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

PRESIDENT [email protected] TREASURER [email protected] REGISTERS [email protected] SECRETARY [email protected] EDITOR [email protected]

SeaShells Penneshaw

Holiday House in Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island 4 Bedroom – Sleeps 8

See us on “www.seashells-penneshaw.com.au” 10% discount for MGSACC members

Your hosts & club members Ian & Raelene Purdey

E: [email protected] P: 0417 197 274

PLEASE SUPPORT KANGAROO ISLAND BUSINESSES

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Submissions for the magazine Close on the

10th day of each month For inclusion in the next issue.

Photos should include owner of the photos name and address as well as

details of subject/s. Articles can be forwarded to

Classified Advertisements can be submitted as for articles or

phoned through if they are short. Classifieds are free for members. Non-members fee is $20.00 per ad per issue.

Adverts are normally only valid for one issue

It’s your responsibility to notify the editor if you wish to repeat your ad in subsequent issues. Note. Cars for sale must have rego. number or engine number if unregistered

MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTIONS

Laurie Houghton - Editor 18 Farman Avenue Hendon SA 5014 by E-mail to [email protected]

Ph: 8356 9953

Note to Contributors Articles, etc submitted by e-mail must be as an “attachment” Word document, Arial 10, Justi-fied, NOT formatted or tabbed, photos should also be “attached”, not reduced in file size ie; low res. Please avoid sending pdf files.


Shannons Insurance Agents ......................... Inside Front Cover

Frontline Developments ......................... Inside Back Cover

Hamilton MG………….Back Cover

Sports Parts Sydney…...……….7

MG Adelaide Workshops……. ..13

Newspot Motors MG…………….18

Trade Directory……………… . 34

Classified Advertisements……...35

ADVERTISING INDEX

2021 Calendar Dates. Confirmed.

March. 4th T and Pre War Register Meeting. 9th Monthly Meeting and AGM at Clubrooms. 14th SA Motorkhana Round 1 at Mallala Skidpan. 18th A and Magnette Register Meeting. 21st MGB Register run to Southern Fleurieu. 24th to 27th Adelaide Rally. 27th Come n Try Hillclimb at Collingrove. 28th Brekky Run to Don Walkers home at Goolwa. 30th MGB Tech night , Clubrooms commencing at 7.00pm.

April. 1st T and Pre War Register Meeting. 13th Monthly Meeting at Clubrooms. 18th McLaren Vale Vintage and Classic Festival starting at Serafinos Winery, McLaren Vale. 24th Multi Club Hillclimb, Round 1 at Collingrove. 25th Brekky Run. Details TBA.

May. 2nd Peter Hall 6 hour at Mallala. 2nd Victor Harbor British Classics Tour. 6th T and Pre War Register Meeting. 11th Monthly Meeting at Clubrooms. 20th A and Magnette Register Meeting. 23rd SA Motorkhana Round 2. Mallala Skidpan. 30th Brekky Run. Details TBA.

June. 3rd T and Pre War Register Meeting. 8th Monthly Meeting at Clubrooms. 13th MSCA Vic sprint. The Bend International Circuit. TO BE CONFIRMED 20th Multi Club Hillclimb Round 2. Collingrove. 27th MSCA Supersprint Round 2 at Mallala. 27th Brekky Run. Details TBA. Further Monthly meetings - July 13th, August 10th, September 14th, October 12th, November 9th December 14th , Covid 19 and restrictions will still apply with 60 attendees.

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MG Pre-War and TYme Event 2021

Event Information and Registration is now available for the MG Pre-War and TYme Event to be held in Canberra from 1 to 4 Octo-ber 2021. The information and registration form can be found at: https://mgcccanberra.org.au/ Inquiries concerning the event may be sent by email to [email protected], or by phone to: Pre-War Registrants: Malcolm Robertson ph. 0408 627 685

T Type and Y Type Registrants: Kent Brown ph. 0412 558 029

And don’t forget, please support our sponsors whenever possible and be sure to let them know you are an MG Car Club member

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MGCC Clubrooms

Monthly General Meetings Held at 8.00 pm on the second Tuesday of

each month at the Clubrooms. All those who are interested in MGs are welcome.

“Noggin’ & Natter” Every Friday night at the Clubrooms. Time:

7.30 pm - ~ 10.00 pm. All welcome for a chat and a drink. Licensed premises.

Tea and coffee available.

Register Meetings “T” Reg. First Thursday of each month.

Time: 7.00 for 7.30 pm.start. Venues as advertised in Register Report. Everyone

welcome - even if you don’t own a Register vehicle.

MGF Reg. Bi-monthly Second Thursday of the month at the clubrooms 7.30pm

MGA/Magnette Reg Bi-monthly on the third Thursday of the month, starts Jan in odd numbered months, 7.00 pm for 7.30

Know Your MG Meetings Third Tuesday of each month. Time: 7.00

for 7.30 pm. Start. Venues as advertised.Everyone welcome.

Breakfast Runs Now Meet at Veale Gardens, CBD South

Tce. For 9.00am starts. BYO everything for breakfast. See Calendar for dates etc;

Mid Week Lunch Runs Second Thursday in the month.

See the calendar Motorsport Events

See Motorsport Report.

Printed by Kwik Kopy Unley. Shop 7A 453 Fullarton Road Highgate SA 5063 Ph: 8271 7422 A National Meeting sponsor

Editorial From ..Laurie Houghton

Editor

March 2021

I don’t have much to say this month, that is I can’t talk about Donald

Trump or the Victorian lockdowns or the latest garbage from the ANU about gen-der politically correct language, I can say there is a couple of interesting technical topics this month as well as the usual activity reports. John Brays T Register report talks about the movement of TC ownerships, well take a look at another TC for sale on page 35. The world car makers are all about mak-ing only electric cars by 20025/35, that should be great for Australia as we are one of the worlds major suppliers of cop-per ,so I am told. BHP are at the top of the list, Chile & Peru supply 40% of the market and China is the biggest user. The average car has from 18 - 49 lbs of copper, an electric car , 180 lbs that means Tesla’s annual requirement would be 45,000 tonnes. So hang onto your classic cars even though you may not be able to fuel them. There is already an electric Chinese MG here in Adelaide .


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PRESIDENTS REPORT From Tim Edmonds

NEW MEMBERS The MG Car Club of South Australia extend a warm welcome to the following new

members who joined in the New Year period We look forward to meeting you at club meetings and events.

Rosemary & Tom Watson MGB Trudy Roberts MGB Peter Walsh. Rosslyn Cobb David Gaspar MGB. Ian Matthews MGB . David Morris MGB Nigel Stewart MGB Mark Thompson MGB/MGA Stephen Selfe MGB Jennifer Burnet-Read MGB

Covid -19 Notice

The ‘Covid QR Code’ is now displayed at the clubrooms, however members are still asked to sign the Club attendance book for club records, as this is used for calculating the Annual Awards.

Sample only

H i All Welcome to March, with the AGM

on the 9th it is your chance to elect your new committee for the next year, I hope you we have a full list of nominees by then as I am writing this report, we a still missing a few names. As I am writing this late as usual. Thanks Laurie today was the first at-tempt by The Bend Motorsport Park to run a replacement for the All British Day, looking at the pictures on Face-book today it was a good event with a good mixture of cars and bikes and Brit-ish cars on the track and motorkhana skid pan.

The club’s website is undergoing some changes at the mo-ment with register secretaries and event organisers being able to add their own information, take a look at it soon. We also have a Facebook page (MG Car Club of South Australia) there is a link on the page, we have just passed 500 likes it has the news items and photos of recent events. See you soon. Tim

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MIDWEEK LUNCH RUN REPORTFrom.. Rodger Polkinghorne

Thursday 14 January 2021

O K. Let’s put 2020 behind us. 2021monthly lunch runs started on 14

January with a very successful lunch only event at the Highlander Hotel, Gilles Plains. If we remain Covid 19 free in SA we have the prospect of getting the Club’s world back to something like normal. Let’s hope we can use our cars again the way we did in 2019.

The lunch menu was very extensive so there was plenty of choices. The chef did a great job. The meals were deli-cious. A couple of people indulged in Nut Sunday desserts which did look irre-sistible.

Thanks to everyone who came and sup-ported the lunch. The Adelaide hills roads always make for great driving ex-periences in an MG. We have many exciting runs planned for the rest of the year.

Next mid-week lunch run will be on 11 February 2021 heading to the Flagstaff Hotel. Morning tea will be at The Uraidla Republic Cafe, Uraidla at 10.30am and departing 11.30am. Everyone is wel-come. Please book with GRAHAM LOADER if you would like to come so the venues can be advised of numbers attending.

GRAHAM LOADER – [email protected] 8352 3070

Lunch Runners:

Bill & Kathy Branson Subaru Rod & Jenny Byrne Toyota Garry & Jenice Chapman MGF Bill & Kath Colclasure MGB Suze e Cook Ford John Davies MGTF Lawrie Foody BMW Jim & Joan Hanna Mazda Norm & Pam Hellings MGB Chris & Anne e Kinney Honda Graham & Pat Loader Suzuki Peter & Janet Lorimer Scania Daryl & Jenny Pinch Lexus Andrew & Deb Pointon MGB Rodger & Sue Polkinghorne Mazda Trevor & Helen Praite Rover Neville & Marjorie Pridgeon Ford Leigh & Kaye Richter Toyota Arthur Ruediger BMW Brian & June Terry Toyota Ian & Di Williamson Jaguar

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MGC NEWS MGC conversations with Richard Mixture, March 2021

H ello there, it’s Richard here again. How’s your short-term memory? If

you cast you mind back to last month’s mutterings I mentioned how I found some replacement air filter elements for the North American air filter housing. When I think back to the old pancake air filters I realised that they weren’t very effective especially when the base plate started cracking and air bypasses the filter element.

The old housing and new filter elements are working so well that I have had an improvement in performance. Yes, the fuel-air mixture is now slightly richer than before. The throttle pick-up is more responsive, and the old thing is more enjoyable to drive.

I did have a complaint from a neighbour though. I popped over to see how they were going, and Colin said, “What’s happening with the old ‘C’? The other day when you went off the smell of pet-rol was so strong that both Phyllis and I commented on it to each other.” Well, I did have the choke out and there was a north wind blowing that lovely aroma straight into their front door. I suggest-ed that they should close their door when the wind blows but I don’t think they’ll take my advice.

So, I though I’d better check the mixture because the old SUs might need to be leaned off a little. A few days later, I went for a short run to warm everything up and with the engine idling I lifted the bonnet and slid my figure under each carby to lift the carburettor piston lifting pin and check the mixture. They were perfect, well as perfect as a well-used old MGC can be. As I lifted the piston the revs increased a small amount and then settled down to idle revs. Each carby sounded the same. It’s probably a couple of years since I tuned the car-

bies so they must have leaned off a little with the broken pancake air cleaners. I know, if I’d been more diligent in check-ing my engine bay, I would have noticed the cracked air cleaner body, but some-times life just gets in the way.

On another subject, I lifted the roller door to take the old ‘C’ out for a run and noticed some splattering across the bon-net. It started at the centre, front of the bonnet and splashed it’s way back across to the mudguard at about 45°. I wasn’t obvious in all lighting conditions but was quite large.

I thought the bird that did this must have been a littler larger than supreme blue wren, maybe something more the size of a flying pig, the feathered variety of course. I tried wiping it with a damp cloth but it made no impression at all. I used my fingernail which worked well but took a lot of effort and time. I tried several cleaners I have on the self, all to no ef-fect. I didn’t want to use any harsh sol-vents because I thought they might damage the paint, (you can’t call it Duco any more can you?). According to that young-fella next door, the word Duco has been reinvented, “Duco provides innovative technology that enables fi-nancial institutions to normalise, validate and reconcile any type of data in Duco’s cloud”. Don’t bother writing to me Russ, to tell me what this means. I don’t know and I don’t want to.

Anyway, that young know-it-all, whipper-snapper who lives over the fence heard me cursing and asked me what was wrong. I told him about my dilemma, and he asked me if I still had that can of WD40 on the shelf, which I did. He said there were nearly 2,000 uses for WD40 and he would print something off for me. Well, I was astounded at some of the

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Next meeting: March 4 Hallett Cove, home of John & Sue Davies, Tigress Ave Hallett Cove in the cul de sac. Usu-al Convid conditions apply. April meeting to be advised, May 6 will be hosted by “The Vicar” Peter Cundy. That’s all folks , thankyou for your sup-port to the Register.

John Bray BOTR 21

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uses.

On the list of 200 things to do with WD40 were some of the following: “Cleans peanut butter from shoestrings”, I have no idea why anyone would keep their shoestrings in a jar of peanut but-ter? “Removes lipstick from fabric”, I wish I’d known this one a few decades ago. “Camouflages scratches in cul-tured marble”, I must tell Mrs Mixture about this one when she’s cleaning the floor of our entrance hall! I tell her about this one too, “Cleans gold-plated taps”. “Removes oxidation from aluminium window frames”, I wonder if it works on anodised window surrounds on the old GT? Ahh, here’s the one I was looking for “Removes baked-on bird droppings from cars”. And I have only used it “to loosen rusty nuts and screws”!

Now, I guess you’re all wondering if it worked? Well sort of. It took a bit of rubbing and it was easier than scratch-

Successfully wiping the bird droppings off of my bonnet which took a bit of rubbing

ing it off with my fingernail, let alone cleaning my fingernail after I had fin-ished.

Automnal Run

Now MGCers et al, it's about time to go on another MGC run, put Sunday 2nd May in your diary and we can travel to Victor Harbour and take part in the Classic British Tour which is planned but not confirmed yet.

Remember ladies and gentlemen keep ‘em tuned and go out and buy a can of DW04, err sorry WD40.

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NOTICE FOR ALL OWNERS OF HISTORIC VEHICLES ON CLUB REGISTRATION - LATE SUBSCRIPTION

PAYMENTS AND LOG BOOKS WE APOLOGISE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE BUT COVID 19 RE-

STRICTIONS STILL APPLY – PLEASE USE POSTAL MEANS ONLY FOR PAYMENTS AND LOG BOOKS

WARNING:– IF YOU HAVE NOT PAID YOUR SUBSCRIPTION FOR MEMBER-SHIP YEAR 2021 (OVERDUE FROM JANUARY 1, 2021), PLEASE DO SO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

CLAUSE 3.10 OF THE CODE OF PRACTICE SAYS: “IF A VEHICLE OWNER CEASES TO BE A FINANCIAL MEMBER OF A RECOGNISED MOTOR VEHI-CLE CLUB AT ANY TIME DURING WHICH THE VEHICLE IS REGISTERED, THE OWNER MUST NOT DRIVE THE VEHICLE OR ALLOW ANY OTHER PERSON TO DRIVE THE VEHICLE UNTIL SUCH TIME THAT THE VEHICLE OWNER IS AGAIN A FINANCIAL MEMBER OF A RECOGNISED MOTOR VE-HICLE CLUB OR HAS TAKEN OUT STANDARD REGISTRATION.”

IN ADDITION, LOG BOOKS HAVE TO BE UPDATED OR REPLACED EACH YEAR.

IF THE REPLACEMENT DATE (IN RED INK ON THE FRONT COVER) IS EAR-LIER THAN 31/12/21, A NEW LOG BOOK/S IS REQUIRED, PLEASE IN-CLUDE:-

1. YOUR OLD LOG BOOK TO VERIFY THE DATES OF CLUB MEMBER-SHIP EXPIRATION, OR A PHOTO COPY OF THE CLUB MEMBER-SHIP RECORD PAGES FOR YEARS 1, 2 AND 3,

2. THE CURRENT REGISTRATION PAPERS OR RECEIPTS, OR A PHO-TO COPY,

3. AN ADDITIONAL $5.00 FOR COST OF EACH BOOK IS REQUIRED.

IF THE REPLACEMENT DATE IS 31/12/21 TO 31/12/22, JUST SEND IN THE LOG BOOK/S ONLY, FOR UPDATING.

FOR THE RETURN POSTAGE OF YOUR LOG BOOK/S:-

DON’T FORGET TO INCLUDE A STAMPED SELF ADDRESSED ENVELOPE WITH A $1.10 STAMP FOR A SINGLE BOOK OR TWO $1.10 STAMPS FOR MULTIPLE BOOKS.

FROM MARCH TO SEPTEMBER, HISTORIC VEHICLE INSPECTIONS WILL BE FROM 10 AM TO 12 NOON ON THE SECOND AND FOURTH SATURDAY OF THE MONTH, AT THE CLUB ROOMS.

GEOFF GOODE, CLUB REGISTRAR FOR HISTORIC VEHICLES

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Hugh Wilmott-Griffiths & partner, Brian Forth sporting a sore knee, to name a few. David Bates has his left arm in a sling still, proudly announcing that he can continue polishing the chrome on the TD one handed like the rest of us. My advice forwarded from Paul “Doc” Dallwitz to use flat Coca Cola has now been discarded for a quality metal finish polish. This is real progress David , the soft drink might have been a red herring maybe, but it got you going. One for the road: My attempt to take on Anthony Pearson in his Y Type, load-ed with mother Joy and Ian Curly Cur-wen-Walker at the lights going home was rather deflating to see the taillights disappearing ahead. Pays to release the TC handbrake in these situations, bug-ger!

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Cream with green seats and trim, it is in good condition,16 inch wheels and the engine is good. About $38k he says but check out the magazine and website. Voice in the crowd: Colin “Doc” Whyatt was his usual vocal self questioning the cost of the vehicles on display in the showroom, just asking he says. I am really quite surprised that a retired medi-cal practitioner would even need to ask the question. I will leave it at that Colin. Secretary of Registers: Ken Burke made a passionate plea for members to consider joining the MGCCSA inc (our car club) committee and nominate at the forthcoming AGM. Ken is working on a new register of cars in the club which is a considerable task. Hopefully we will see a new format for tracking ownership of our cars and those of many others one day soon. Vale; Nick Proferes. At the time of writing this report , a great friend of the register, Nick Proferes (TD) sadly passed away unexpectantly in hospital on 28 January suffering pneumonia while at the same time undergo-ing chemo treatment for lympho-ma. Nick was a member of the Sporting Car Club SA and will be eulogised at a memorial service on 18 February. I for one always enjoyed his company at our

meetings with his old brown coloured TD. Terry Wright: At the time of writing this our great friend and talented photogra-pher is undergoing serious neuro sur-gery to remove a growth that has affect-ed his eyesight badly. I am sure that you all will join me in wishing him the best that is on offer for his journey out of this difficult and invasive situation. Terry was happy that you be informed of his predicament. Check out Terry’s photos of the night, cars in the showroom, they are brilliant. Faces in the crowd: David Herbert up from Mt Gambier and a long lunch at the Uraidla Hotel and a special wine tasting with MG friends. David’s wines are now on sale in the dining room. Paul “Doc” Dallwitz, back with us ,Trevor Driver back from surgery,

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TECHNICAL TOPIC From..Bob Schapel

T-Type GEARBOX COMPARISON

T here are significant differences be-tween TA, TB/TC and TD/Y/TF

gearboxes. The photo of the three MG cluster-gears summarises the story. Design change, after the TA, and the size difference between TC and TD/Y/TF are obvious. The TD/Y/TF cluster weighs a few grams under 1.4 kg and has twelve 1st gear teeth, while the TC cluster weighs a few grams over 2.4 kg and has fifteen 1st gear teeth. The TA gearbox is straight-cut “crash” in 1st and 2nd, and only has synchro-mesh on 3rd and 4th. I don’t know much about them, but I do have one amongst my TA bits. The interesting thing about this box is the “herringbone” gears on the cluster drive and 3rd gear, as can be seen in photo #1 Such gears eliminate end-thrust, as they have opposing heli-cal teeth. I assume “herringbone” is a good design, but expensive to manufac-ture. I have heard that very early TA gearboxes might have been a bit differ-ent, but I don’t know the details. The teeth on 1st gear are smaller than on the TC, but there are 16 of them. That is one more than the TC and four more than the TD/Y/TF. On the TA cluster, 2nd, 3rd and drive are all splined, and hence removable from the unit. I guess that was also good design, but expen-sive. The TC gearbox was a great gearbox for the era. Although it did not have synchromesh on 1st, it had very good ratios, and was VERY strong. The standard TC box in my TC Special has survived a serious battering for a long time. In fact many race cars, including some with 200 HP Repco Holden en-gines, raced very successfully using TC gearboxes. They were stronger than TCs needed, but that was no disad-

vantage, apart from a bit of extra weight. TC owners are now benefitting from that fact, because, being so under stressed, the gears never seem to wear out! I have seen many TC gearboxes and have never seen any teeth worn through the case-hardening. The TC has the same number of 1st gear teeth as the Jaguar (Late E-type, V12 and XJS) cluster. From photo #2 compar-ing Jaguar with TC, it can be seen that, although there is a difference in size, it is not as much as we might expect! Of course the Jaguar gear is helical, as that box is all-synchro’. The only flaw in the TC box is that they are often noisy. A “jingle-jangle” can eminate from a TC box at cruising speed, and gear-lever rattle can also be an issue. Gear-lever rattle might be worse in cars with unbal-anced engines, or cars in which ignition timing is not accurate for all cylinders. (That is an issue worth investigation.) I imagine that they were not noisy when new, because the gearbox in Martin Barrett’s 15,000 mile TC was perfectly silent when I drove that wonderful car. The TD/Y/TF gearbox, although small-er than the TC, is a good box, with good ratios. It was well-designed for the cars when they were new, and well beyond an engine re-build or two. Perhaps they are less noisy than the TC box, due to the stabilising effect of the longer main-shaft and rear extension, which houses an extra bearing. Although nowhere near as strong as the TC box, they are certainly fit for the purpose, being plenty strong enough when in reasonable con-dition. Andrew Willington raced a very fast supercharged TF Special for many years, using a standard TF box. His only gearbox failure was later, after he had close ratios fitted. The breakage

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was very close to where a new cog had been welded on, so there might have been good reason for the problem. (Incidentally, his close ratio cogs came from an Isuzu truck!) Most original TD/Y/TF gearboxes have now done a big mileage and significant wear is to be expected. I have seen many TD/Y/TF gearboxes and a large proportion of them had clusters which were worn through the case-hardening on 1st, alt-hough the other gears on the clusters have always looked good. Unfortunate-ly, new parts are expensive. A new cluster from Moss is over $1200 AUD plus postage. Good used parts (including Morris 10) are another option, but they are difficult to find. About 20 years ago, I drew up plans and got a quote to have TD/Y/TF cluster-gear “inserts” made. The idea was to bore out the good end of the TD/Y/TF cluster and press-in/weld a new 1st gear end. If I had more spare time, I would have tried it. I am sure others have had the same idea, but I am surprised I have not heard of it being done. The ratios are listed in various litera-ture, but to most of us they are just numbers! In an attempt to simplify that issue, I will compare the TC ratios to the TD/Y/TF ratios, using percentages and revs. Of course 4th (top) gear is the same, as both are “straight-through”, but the intermediate gears in the TC are all slightly taller. (About 3.6% in 1st, 6.1% in 2nd and 2.4% in 3rd.) When “gaps” are compared, TD/Y/TF gears are slightly closer between 1st and 2nd, while TC gears are slightly closer between 2nd, 3rd and 4th. It is also interesting to compare the ratios using engine revs. Changing up to 2nd at 4000 RPM, the revs drop to 2308 in a TC and 2364 in a TD/Y/TF. Changing up to 3rd at 4000 RPM, the revs drop to 2772 in a TC and 2676 in a TD/Y/TF. Changing up to 4th at 4000 RPM, the revs drop to 2960 in a TC and 2888 in a TD/Y/TF. As these figures

show, there is not a big difference in ratios between TC and TD/Y/TF. Similar gearboxes, from other makes of cars, exist for each T-Type gearbox. The equivalent boxes have different ratios but the main housing and inter-nals can be swapped over as long as certain bits are kept together. The TA box is similar to a pre-war Morris (and/or Wolseley?) The TC box is similar to a Riley 1.5 litre (late 1940s to early 1950s). The TD/Y/TF box is similar to the post-war Morris 10. I fitted complete Morris 10 internals to Dad’s Y-Tourer, because 1st gear was worn out. Howev-er, the resultant big gap between 3rd and 4th was very disappointing. Years later, I had the drive gear machined off the Morris 10 cluster, and replaced it with the drive gear from the original Y-Type cluster. I also reverted to the orig-inal matching first-motion-shaft. This resulted in the ratios once again being standard TD/Y/TF. After this operation, the gearbox was back to its fabulous best. Unfortunately, finding Morris 10 parts, and machining cost, makes this operation more difficult as time goes on. . The bellhousings are interchangeable in the TD, Y, TF and Morris 10, although the clutch levers vary, and the very late T-Types have a bigger clutch releaseshaft. The TC bellhousing has thesame bolt pattern to the gearbox case,but is not interchangeable. With somemachining, TD/Y/TF/Morris-10 bellhous-ings can be made to suit the TC gear-box. I have converted one myself. Viceversa would not be as easy, as metalwould have to be added, and spare TCbellhousings are hard to find. Manywere probably chopped/grafted to othermakes of engines, while TD/Y/TF (andMorris-10) bellhousings are more com-mon, as they were used on so manymodels.I have done a lot of driving in TCs andquite a bit in Y-Tourers. These MGgearboxes are great to use, and are

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black tyres no less. The absolute self appointed guru of MG , AC Pear-son.com, claims 13 defects on what ap-pears to be a perfect MG TC. I guess we have to bow to his expertise in these matters but keep him away from your cars , immediate devaluation could be the result of his esteemed and authori-tive appraisal. This overshadowed Goldy’s attempt to get in on the act with his take on the matter of imperfection. Guest: Bob Schapel introduced Harry Aust who has a long history with racing. Harry is building a TC Special looking for a set of 16 inch wheels, maybe Don Walker can sell him a set from his latest acquisition, however Harry gave an in-sight into his aspirations with the MG and hopefully we will see him more often in Bob’s company at Register meetings. On matters racing historics, Phillip Island is out this year due to Convid , British at the Bend track at Tailem Bend is a new event to be held over the 13-14Feb weekend. Birthdays : Christopher TF Bennett celebrated his 70th last month, congratu-lations. Peter “perfect” Auld turned 80 years of age that week and will cel-ebrate at home with family, Chris was eager to score a bottle of wine in the raffle , and I can see why. Con-gratulations Peter, hopeful-ly we will have a Register at Torrens park one day not too far away to acknowledge your octoge-narian status. Besides Chris always likes the gar-age clean up.

TC swap arounds. It goes something like this . TC 9214 Blackwood to Goolwa Beach,then TC 7691 Goolwa Beach to Coromandel Valley, TC 8755 Hawthorn-dene to Blackwood. TC 8755 previously owned by Craig Fer-gusson (deceased) a great friend of mine , is now in my care at home in Blackwood. It’s a lovely car and it means a great deal to me. My car TC 9214 went to “The Ghost Who Walks” Don Walker at Goolwa Beach who is rebulding the motor with great care. Andrew “Willow” Willington has taken TC 7691 Special from Don Walker back up to Coromandel Valley to complete its rebuild. Stan Shepherd, mate you need to keep an eye on these movements of TC’s lately, it takes some keeping up with, but they are all here in SA and listed in your data sheets. TC 9693 owned by Richard Venning over on the York Peninsula is for sale and will be advertised in the magazine.

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Prewar & T Register Report From..John Bray

15 feb 2021 Richmonds, the jewel in the crown.

M embers were spoilt rotten with the abundance of “jewels” laying

about in the showroom for classic and prestige cars at Richmonds on Rich-mond Road Richmond. The connotation that one needs to be rich to own some of the fine thoroughbred cars is probably right, however the addition of our own MG T Types & Arthur’s Prewar ND cer-tainly added to the ambience in the showroom for the Register night. Our thanks to Andy Morgan, manager and our Chris Hunt for hosting the meet-

ing for us which went off without a hitch despite the stormy conditions outside, hoods up were mandatory for our cars. Manipulating them into the showroom was aptly supervised by Andy Morgan who carefully watched the MG’s revers-ing near his prized merchandise, Numbers : Happy to report that Convid regulations were not breached but we did run close to the wind, 59 members signed in , 14 Register vehicles con-firmed. A little short of the record at Artfur’s Register in January (30) howev-er the weather was better then. Apologies: Happy to report that the following members did not turn up other-wise we would have people standing outside waiting to get past the door-man , Peter Lancaster with his lethal umbrella at the side door. Thankyou Peter & Diane, a job well done, most helpful. Now I refer to, Mike Osborne,Lachy Kin-near, David Liebrandt, John Tamke, Ian Burman & maybe a couple of others that I did not write down. Election of officers : Nominated by Bob Schapel, seconded by Bob Schapel and appointed by Bob Schapel un-aminously I, John Bray was re-elected Boss of The Register for another year, hence the title BOTR21 The $80K TC for sale: Seen on the internet from interstate I have never heard so much fuss being made over what appeared to be a most attractive unit, red with 16 inch wheels , thick

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March 2021 part of what makes our cars such fun to drive.

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Left. Photo 2 Jaguar and TC

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MGA / MAGNETTE NEWS From ..Sandra Cardnell

NOTES FROM THE MEETING JANUARY 2021 HELD AT THE MGCC

CLUBROOMS

W e welcomed a new MGA owner, Don Findlay, to the Register. Don

bought his car in Sydney where it had been stored for some time. It was previ-ously owned by a member of the Gee-long MGCC and was a trophy winner at their concours. It is Irish Blue and a very good looking car

Members attending were – Ken Burke Ian Denny Graham Evans Don Findlay Nick Micklem Arthur Ruediger Alan Semmler Alan and Sandra Cardnell.

Apologies Ian Wilson De Denny Trev and Sandy Dicker

It was a sparse meeting, the Covid 19 is surely playing a part in attendances at the moment. For that reason the next meeting on March 19th will also be held at the clubrooms. It is now possible to have a drink standing up, but, food must be consumed seated at a table. I have set the date for our end of year function (lunch or dinner, to be decided) as Sun-day 5th December 2021. In the mean-time, I would like to hear from anyone interested in hosting a register meeting in May, July, September or November. I have a couple of irons in the fire, so more details later. We discussed a plan by the various register secretaries to have a digital rec-

ord of member’s cars with photos. This would be instead of the register books currently in use. The meeting agreed that this would be acceptable. It is now up to the register secretaries to sort this out. I have a great many details, but I am missing photos – watch this space.

Nick Micklem brought up the subject of an MGA/Magnette register shirt, much like the T Register. It was generally agreed to proceed with this and I hope to have a sample (or two) at the next meeting

I received a request from James Coote for some suggestions for a respray of his MGA. The meeting came up with Darren’s Car Resto, Lonsdale (0412693070; Auto Transformers, Par-afield; Adelaide Auto Refurbishers, Mor-phett Rd near the airport; Adam Linck-ers, Auburn. I hope this helps James and any other members looking for a respray. I am sure there are others but these were provided at the meeting. Attached photos of Don’s car Sandra A Cardnell, Register Secretary.

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2021 MGCC MOTORSPORT CALENDAR OF EVENTS

2/12/2020

Date Event Venue Comment

* 21 February MSCA Picnic & Presentation Virgara Wines, Angle Vale

** 28 February Round 1 MSCA Super Sprint The Bend West

** 14 March Round 1 SA Motorkhana Champs Mallala Skidpan MGCC run

** 25 April Multi Club Hillclimb Round 1 Collingrove Hillclimb May be changed

* 2 May Peter Hall Memorial Six Hour Mallala Motorsport Park

** 23 May Round 2 SA Motorkhana Champs Mallala Skidpan Auto Test Panel

? 13 June MSCA Vic Sprint The Bend International MGCC involvement?

** 20 June Multi Club Hillclimb Round 2 Collingrove Hillclimb

** 27 June Round 2 MSCA Super Sprint Mallala Motorsport Park

** 11 July Round 3 SA Motorkhana Champs Mallala Skidpan Modified Mini

** 18 July Multi Club Hillclimb Round 3 Collingrove Hillclimb

** 15 August Multi Club Hillclimb Round 4 Collingrove Hillclimb

** 29 August Round 3 MSCA Super Sprint The Bend East Circuit

** 12 September Round 4 SA Motorkhana Champs Mallala Skidpan NDCC

** 24 October Round 4 MSCA Super Sprint Mallala Motorsport Park

** 14 November Round 5 MSCA Super Sprint Mallala Motorsport Park

** indicates points allocated for MG Car Club Competition Championship Best 10 results

SPORTING CAR CLUB WINTER CLUB SERIES HILLCLIMB DATES FOR INTERESTED MEMBERS

28 March

30 May

4 July

29 August

ALL SUBJECT TO PANDEMIC INTERVENTION


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This is because it readily captures air, which as we know can compress, unlike a Glycol fluid.

Brake fluid manufacturers strongly rec-ommend that Silicone and Glycol Ether brake fluid are not mixed. If changing from the Glycol type to Silicone, the brake system should be replaced with new parts or at least flushed thoroughly a few times before being re-filled. If you decide to change back to Glycol brake fluid from Silicone, this should only be done if the master cylinder and all four slave cylinders are replaced, or disman-tled, thoroughly cleaned and rebuilt with new seals. The tiniest remnants of the Silicone fluid must be removed before filling with Glycol fluid. Due to its higher viscos-ity and poor lubrication properties, Silicone brake fluid must not be used in modern cars with ABS brakes.

As stated in last month’s article, when atmospheric moisture gets into Silicone brake fluid, it can cause corrosion in the slave cylinders, but fortunately in our relatively dry South Australian climate this is less likely to occur here than in other parts of the world. It also helps if the brake slave cylinders have been rebuilt with stain-less steel sleeves and pistons.

Silicone brake fluid has its Pros & Cons, depending on which properties are deemed more important for the MG owner’s purposes and DOT3 fluid should be replaced with DOT4 the next time the fluid is replaced. DOT3 and DOT4 can be mixed but the DOT4 prop-erties are diluted in the DOT3, so if you have DOT3 in your car now, it’s best to flush DOT3 fluid from the system and have a full top up of fresh DOT4.

Temperature rating standards for the different grades of fluid are shown in the

table below. Most manufacturers ex-ceed these minimum performance re-quirements.

The “Wet” Boiling Point (BP) is calculat-ed at a water content of just 3.7%, which is the amount of water that if exceeded, make the brake fluid dangerously inef-fective.

Some manufacturers produce a brake fluid that they call, for example, DOT4+, DOT4 Plus or DOT4 Super. These products have a similar chemistry to standard DOT4 but far exceeds the min-imum requirement of DOT4 standards, which the manufacturer wants to em-phasise to customers. For just a couple of dollars more, it’s probably a good idea

to go for the higher temperature rated DOT4s.

Keep your MG’s brake and clutch mas-ter cylinders topped up at all times and flush the brake fluid at the factory speci-fied intervals. I hope that this information about brake fluids is interesting and not too contro-versial. The unbiased information that I’ve presented is based on scores of hours research from dozens of websites and technical reference books but it’s up to the individual owners of MGs to make their own decisions.

Grade Dry B.P. Wet B.P. Change Interval

DOT3 205°C 140°C Flush every 12-months

DOT4 230°C 155°C Flush every 24-months

DOT5 260°C 180°C Partial bleed every 12-months

DOT5.1 260°C 180°C Flush every 24-months

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MARCH LIBRARY NEWS From..Stephen Marlow , Club Librarian

G reetings!

I’m pleased to report I’m making progress on tracking down books which have been borrowed for a bit longer than normal and these are progressively be-ing returned to our shelves. In the mean-time if you think you MAY have an over-due book or DVD please scout around the bookshelf/garage/shed and save a phone call.

I’ve simplified and updated the borrow-ing/returning process and a sheet outlin-ing that is now on the right-hand glass door of the library cupboard. Borrowing and returning are both simple, please follow these guidelines so we can keep track of this valuable club resource.

The anonymous donations of interesting books continues – thanks to those re-sponsible.

Among the recent titles are:

MG Cars 1940-1947

The MG Companion, by KennethUllyett

Instruction Manual for the MG Midget(Series TC)

MG Series TC, Series TD, Series TF,Series MGA and MGA 1600 Work-shop Manual

MGB

MGB Restoration/Preparation/Maintenance, by Jim Tyler

The Complete Official MGB.

These are now entered into our system, included in the new and updated Library Catalogue and available for you to bor-row.

Happy reading!!

Stephen Marlow Club Librarian

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Extreme braking when competing on a race-track is not the only way to induce brake fade, stopping a heavily laden car also increases the heat that the brake components experience, as does brak-ing to keep your car to the speed limit down a long decline such as the Heysen Tunnel section of the South Eastern Freeway, or by frequent brief applica-tions of the brake pedal such as driving down winding Hills roads.

With a fresh fill of the correct grade of brake fluid, there shouldn’t be any brake fade noticeable in street-driving condi-tions. Good quality brake fluid can’t be compressed, so all of the effort at the brake pedal is transferred directly to the pistons in the slave cylinders. However, if water contamination exists, the water will vaporise into a gas above 100° Cel-sius. A liquid resists being compressed but a gas doesn’t. This is what’s hap-pening if you experience the brake pedal feeling “spongy” or worse still, when the brake pedal is able to be pushed to the floor while having little or no effect on retarding the speed of your vehicle. Brake fade is a different, temporary phe-nomenon which occurs if poor quality or incorrect grade brake pads are used, which allow released gases from the over-heated pad material to force the pads away from the discs, as previously described for drums.

Brake fluid grades explained. DOT3, DOT4, DOT5 & DOT5.1 grades are available for sale. “DOT” is the ab-breviation of Department Of Transport, the US rating standard for brake fluids used around the globe. To confuse consumers, DOT5 is a Sili-cone based fluid while the others are all PolyGlycol Ethers with lubricant and corrosion resistance additives.

The production of Castor Oil based DOT2 has stopped but DOT3 is still available to purchase but it’s very rare for current model cars to use this older grade of brake fluid. DOT3 should not

March 2021 be used, even though it’s what was used by the factory during MGB produc-tion. The performance of DOT3 drops off rapidly as moisture is absorbed and therefore it needs to be flushed and re-placed more frequently.

DOT4 was developed to replace the poor performing DOT3. It’s much less hydroscopic than DOT3, so it has better high temperature performance and only needs replacing every two years.

DOT5 is a Silicone product which I’ll deal with next, after covering the last Glycol based brake fluid.

DOT5.1 is the highest recognised grade of brake fluid, which has the same tem-perature ratings as Silicone fluid, which is why it’s unfortunately been given a similar name which means that it could be confused with DOT5. DOT5 and DOT5.1 must not be mixed. DOT5.1 exceeds the demands that all but the most serious racing MGB can require. It’s unnecessary for the owner of a street-driving MGB to pay the higher price for the “racing” grades of brake fluid with even higher temperature rat-ings.

Silicone brake fluid has some excellent properties such as a high boiling point, it won’t damage your car’s paintwork if it gets spilled or dripped, which of course is a great benefit to MG owners. The chemistry of Glycol based brake fluid is similar to automotive paints, which is why it does such a good job of dissolving the paint on your concours MGB. It’s such a shame to see bubbling paintwork around the master cylinder pedal box in the engine bay of so many cars; mine included.

The disadvantages of Silicone brake fluid is that it can be more compressible than Glycol brake fluid, so a “spongy” brake pedal can sometimes be felt, which the driver has to get used to.

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MGB REGISTER NEWS & TECHNICAL TOPIC

From..Nick Phillips

J ust a reminder to all MG owners about the Southern Fleurieu Run on

Sunday the 21st of March. If you didn’t register with me by the end of February to attend lunch at The Wine-house in Langhorne Creek, you’re still welcome to participate on the 130km convoy run from Normanville, departing at 10:30am. The restaurant might still have tables available on the day if you decide at the last minute to stay for the $35 two-course lunch.

I’ll be arranging another run in May around the Clare Valley area, which should hopefully be of particular interest to the many club members that live in the Barossa region and north from there.

Technical topic

On Tuesday the 30th of March I’ll be holding an MGB Technical Evening at the clubrooms from 7pm. The theme of the event will be a brake maintenance inspection. Not servicing or repairs to the braking system but an inspection, which could highlight some or many points for rectification. This will be a practical demonstration and explanation of the inspection points that I listed in last month’s magazine article.

I expect that the practical demonstration will last about two hours with time allot-ted afterwards for any questions to be answered. All MG owners are welcome to attend, no matter what your mechanical skill level, because many of these visual checks can, and should, be done by all car owners.

We’re still adhering to Coronavirus guidelines, so contact me at MG-

[email protected] to confirm your attend-ance on the night.

Technical article:

As a continuation of the article that I wrote in the February magazine about MGB brake maintenance, this month I’m writing more about brake fluids to assist club members to make their best choice. If you haven’t already done so, your classic MG’s braking system needs to have a thorough maintenance inspec-tion, as outlined in last month’s maga-zine as soon as you get the opportunity.

To keep the science brief and in lay-man’s terms; brakes work by converting kinetic energy (the energy in the mass of a moving car) into heat energy, through the friction of brake pads contacting discs. As we all know, water boils at 100°C but fresh brake fluid boils at more than dou-ble that temperature. This allows the brakes on your car to be applied numer-ous times in quick succession, such as when driving down a steep road, without the fear of brake fade due to the temper-ature build up in the brake disc and cali-per and in the brake drum and its slave cylinder. Brake fade of the rear brake drums is mostly a consequence of the brake shoe material overheating due to the drum’s limited ability to dissipate heat quickly enough. The heat generated causes the brake shoe lining to give off gases which build up on its surface, preventing direct contact with the inside of the brake drum. Racers will drill small holes through the contact area of the drum circumference to allow this gas to es-cape.

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· MGCC going to Fox Creek sharing with Sprites, Healey’s, Austin/Morris

and Sporting Car Club.

· Special Guest at Charity Dinner will be Motorsport Legend Craig Lowndes.

· Entries close 26th March. No late entries.

· COVID Safety check-in, social distancing for all in attendance.

Trevor Sharp

McLaren Vale Vintage & Classic Chairman

0415 820 719

[email protected]

www.vintageandclassic.com.au


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