Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Well, Lucas was certainly part of the problem... but NOT the whole problem. I bought a new MGB in 1977. It was the first model with catalytic converter. What a disaster!!! the so-called engineers had apparently cut 8 or 10 inches out of the exhaust and stuck in a catalytic converter. Well, that screwed up the balance of the exhaust system so that it pulled against the manifold creating space, and then cracking the exhaust manifold. In three miserable years, I went through three exhaust manifolds and four complete exhaust systems. When I finally traded the beast in 1980 for a volvo, it needed exhaust system number 5. Now, there had been a recall on this. What MG did was to insert a piece of asbestos between the exhaust system and the manifold. of course, that also came loose. And, this was only one problem... imagine my surprise when on the Schuykill Expy stuck in traffic, my car started to overheat... well (and this may indeed have been Lucas), it turns out that the radiator fans (there were two) were electrically driven and thermostatically controlled. Anyway, the fuses had the wonderful attribute of blowing in traffic. There was a vast array of other problems with this car. It was my last british car. brian