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Thank you for your help Peter , much appreciated

Hi I am looking at fitting a new mild steel exhaust system ( quite cheap at Moss Europe at the moment !! ) to my LE roadster and was wondering how difficult it might be to fit it myself , although I have very limited mechanical knowledge. I do have a garage that I can use at my leisure and a decent ...

Hi , I took my mgb roadster out last weekend for its first outing this year and it ran like a dream! So I thought about my next job of cleaning the orange Stripey seats ( I know that they are not everyone's cup of tea but I love them ) Does anyone know of a really good product that I can clean them ...

Thank you again Peter , I will try out what you have said as soon as I get another chance and let you know how I get on.
Will I need to change anything if I decide to run it on premium unleaded , ie timing etc ?
Regards
Roy

New update , it was quite a nice day yesterday perfect i thought for a quick spin in the mgb, it started up fine and settled into a slightly lumpy but consistent idle , however as soon as i got into third gear the misfiring and spluttering started all over again , should I be running it on normal un...

Just a quick update ! Nationwide recovery have just sent another technician out to try and get the car sorted and in fairness he was absolutely superb , he checked the leads , cleaned the plugs and set the gap, Took the rocker cover off and adjusted ( not sure what though ) and then took the carbs a...

Hi Peter A quick update and much better news , I checked the HT leads like you said and took each one off and visually inspected it ,whilst they looked ok a couple of them have a damaged connector on the plug side and I cannot get them so they don't touch each other though ? . I then cleaned each pl...

Hello Peter Thankyou again for giving your time to help solve my problem , it is much appreciated I will update my profile asap , I live in Rossendale Lancashire and bought the car from Graham Chapman classic cars who described the car ( runs like a new car ! ) I have a feeling you might be right ab...

Hi Peter thank you for your advice so far The car was starting and idling perfectly on the Wednesday evening in the garage , then when I tried starting it on the Saturday evening it just started splitting and backfiring and was definitely not firing on all 4 cylinders. Just had the nationwide recove...

Thank you Peter
I will take your advice and give it some fresh fuel , it doesn't seem to want to run so I will have to put 5 litres in and try it again before I can run it to the fuel station .