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MG Midget Disc Conversion
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Re: MG Midget Disc Conversion
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Re: MG Midget Disc Conversion
This will come as a trip down Memory Lane for some -- if you take a look at the date of the last posting -- and the road not-yet travelled for others.
The thread below has been an invaluable source of insight and reassurance as I've moved towards the day when my MG Beehive disc conversion kit is finally unpacked after two years, or more, sitting in the corner of the workshop.
With a Haynes Midget manual languishing somewhere between the Amazon Basin and Warwickshire, I set about a preliminary run-thorough of what goes where, this morning, and quickly reached the point where I concluded that the hubs that came off Austin the Austin last year, sometime, might not be the ones that have to go back on.
As my snap below shows, the hub doesn't fit through the 'top hat' aperture of the disc (if I can use a non-techie term), and it lacks the four holes that appear to be needed to bolt it to the disc.
In brief, I can't assemble the two components in a way the resembles any of the pics in the 2012 thread.
Do I need to replace the hubs? If so, can anyone recommend a source, please?
If not, what am I missing?
As ever, thanks in anticipation!
Mark Higgitt
Alcester
The thread below has been an invaluable source of insight and reassurance as I've moved towards the day when my MG Beehive disc conversion kit is finally unpacked after two years, or more, sitting in the corner of the workshop.
With a Haynes Midget manual languishing somewhere between the Amazon Basin and Warwickshire, I set about a preliminary run-thorough of what goes where, this morning, and quickly reached the point where I concluded that the hubs that came off Austin the Austin last year, sometime, might not be the ones that have to go back on.
As my snap below shows, the hub doesn't fit through the 'top hat' aperture of the disc (if I can use a non-techie term), and it lacks the four holes that appear to be needed to bolt it to the disc.
In brief, I can't assemble the two components in a way the resembles any of the pics in the 2012 thread.
Do I need to replace the hubs? If so, can anyone recommend a source, please?
If not, what am I missing?
As ever, thanks in anticipation!
Mark Higgitt
Alcester
1958 (long since Court Grey, no longer bare metal, now Speedwell Blue, and tantalisingly close to moving under its own steam for the first time in more than a decade) A35 YDV 624
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Re: MG Midget Disc Conversion
Answered in another thread but yes. Wrong hubs.
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