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MGA Guru Is GOING MOBILE - (December 16 - December 31, 2024)
Monday - December 16, 2024: 
Sitting in Ocala, Florida today, I finally got around to doing something that was about 20 years overdue. I was updating a Cooling Tech page on the various MGB water pumps for 3-main bearing and 5-main bearing engines . This is important if you want to transplant an MGB engine into the MGA, and you need to select the appropriate water pump to make it work.
Tuesday - December 17, 2024:
Lutz FL today, just ambling along.
Wednsday - December 18, 2024:
Sitting in Ellenton,FL with a day off.
Thursday - December 19, 2024:
Strolled on down the road to North Fort Meyers, FL. We are due in Bonita Springs tomorrow.
Friday - December 20, 2024:
Christmas dinner time at Tech Central Racing in Bonita Springs, Florida, and we made as planned (easy-peasy). We arrived early enough to watch and help with staging the cars to be on display for the day.
Supposed to be a casual party day, no tech work intended, but sometimes boys will be boys. The MGB wannabe race car "Tina" that has been slowly progressing for the past few years recently got he clutch and brake hydraulics hooked up, so it may be about ready for a test run around the block. For some odd reason it is reluctant to start without a sniff of starting fluid, but once started it seems to run okay. And no, it is not stale gas.
Someone is contemplating using the modular aluminum trailer, but lots of stuff on it needs to find a different hone (not today) . Some new simple shop tools have just arrived, a set of four pinch clamps with rubber seals used to close off hydraulic pipes to retain fluids during service disconnect. One on left has two rubber stoppers to seal a banjo fitting. Others are three different sizes to seal the open end of a flared pipe. Just so you don't think we only play with cars here, there is a small chain saw getting a new magneto ignition coil, which does work, so now it runs again.
Nice dinner party on the patio, good friends, wonderful weather, great time to take a day off. In the evening we had some time to grouse around the net looking for new fenders for the Magic Trailer. They seem to get beat up pretty bad every few years, cheap enough and easier to fit new ones than to repair the old ones. We may have found some locally, maybe a chore for tomorrow.
Saturday - December 21 2024:
On a mission today. we found a pair of trailer fenders we wanted at the Tractor Suy store in Naples, FL. Word was they had been left outside for a while and may be a little rusty. That turned out to be an understatement, but they were the right parts in the right place at the right time, so we went for it. Being discounted 50% was only incidental. Looked like the "surface rust" might almost buff off, but not so lucky. Grab an angle grinder with a flap wheel sanding disc. By the time we were done it took two guys two hours to get them down to basically bare metal. Got lucky and finished grinding just as the sun was setting behind the trees and our view was getting lost in shadows. We washed them down with lacquer thinner to get the grinding dust off.
After some consideration we wiped them down with Ospho rust treatment, maybe the best we could do for any rust dust left in microscopic pits. After a few minutes there was a light blue hue on the surface to indicate it was working some. We will let that cure over night and take a shot at primer paint tomorrow..
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