The story of the rebuild of a 1974.5 rubber bumper MGB GT. Only approx. 1250 of these cars were imported to the US. Plans are for a 3.9L all aluminum Rover V8 fuel injected engine and T5 trans to be installed to be my daily driver.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Well, the weather has not been cooperative of late, so not a lot of work haqs been done to the bodyshell. I have picked up a few pieces here and there. I got a cooling fan and relay module from a Volvo 960, nice and thin, good sized fan.
Got the Ford 7.5" rear axle housing back today from getting narrowed. It looks great, I'll post some pics tomorrow. I did learn one thing in gathering parts for the rear end...There are two different length "short side" axles from a 7.5" axle. Apparently the drum brake axles are a different length than a disc brake axle. I grabbed both my "short side" axles and took them to the guy that was narrowing my axle and noticed that they were not the same. IIRC, I got the second short axle from the Mustang 7.5" rear when I was getting all the disc brake parts. So now I need another Ranger axle. The difference is fairly small, the Ranger axle (drum brakes) is 26 3/8" whereas the Mustang axle(disc brakes) is 27 5/16.
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