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#464214 - 06/02/08 07:42 PM '63 Midget Rear End
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This is now under my little car...what a bitch; not hooking everything up, just getting it up under there by myself...unlike an MGB rear end, this little sucker is too small & not center balanced enough to just sit on a floor jack!

Everything is finger tight right now....I'm cleaning up the park brake assembly & after its installed, I'll tighten things up a bit & set her on her wheels.

Another major milestone!

(Oh, if you look at the driver side of the differential case, you'll see a little silver band going around it - out near the elliptic spring tower...it holds the brake line to the case...I lost one of mine...anybody got an extra?)


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#464216 - 06/02/08 07:44 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: tony barnhill]
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uh oh! That was supposed to be painted. smile
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#464222 - 06/02/08 07:56 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: Trevor Jessie]
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Minus four points for originality... tsk tsk.
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#464228 - 06/02/08 08:06 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: tosoutherncars]
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Originally Posted By: tosoutherncars
Minus four points for originality... tsk tsk.

& where would that be? lol the missing clamp?
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#464232 - 06/02/08 08:17 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: tony barnhill]
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Alum on rear case and tranny are supose to be painted, rear end black and tranny engine color.
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#464233 - 06/02/08 08:19 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: jlaird]
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Registered: 11/15/03
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agree Not original, but clean, bare aluminum looks MUCH nicer IMHO!! wink


Edited by bugimike (06/02/08 08:20 PM)
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#464234 - 06/02/08 08:20 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: jlaird]
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Originally Posted By: jlaird
Alum on rear case and tranny are supose to be painted, rear end black and tranny engine color.

Not on a Midget, Jack.....on an early Midget the differential itself (aluminum 3rd member) is natural, the differential case is black....the transmission is natural.

There ARE some differences between the Bugeye & the Midget!

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Not original, but clean, bare aluminum looks MUCH nicer IMHO!!

On an early Midget, this IS original! Remember, I took the car apart & found no sign of paint on the 3rd member or transmission (& on MGB's they are also both natural)...& some old factory/advertising photos I've got show them unpainted..remember, MG was always looking at ways to cut costs & they assembled lots of things just as the arrived at Abingdon.

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#464243 - 06/02/08 08:31 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: tony barnhill]
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Mine is bright red wink
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#464247 - 06/02/08 08:33 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: regularman]
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Intresting to say the least.

Somewhere we got to get a concourse guide.
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AN5L 24515, Eng. 9C-U-H 16218, Apr. 1959
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We were there, Lake of the Ozarks, 2008!!


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#464249 - 06/02/08 08:33 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: tony barnhill]
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Mine is bright red wink
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#464257 - 06/02/08 08:39 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: regularman]
jlaird Offline
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I do however think the bare alum. looks better than the painted.
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AN5L 24515, Eng. 9C-U-H 16218, Apr. 1959
"Miss Agatha" On the road again and smiling.

We were there, Lake of the Ozarks, 2008!!


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#464276 - 06/02/08 09:01 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: jlaird]
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Hey, Kim - is yours bright red?

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#464279 - 06/02/08 09:07 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: tony barnhill]
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Originally Posted By: tony barnhill
Hey, Kim - is yours bright red?
I did not mean to do that. Dang computer locked up and somehow got in a double post with Jack's in the middle lol
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#464288 - 06/02/08 09:13 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: jlaird]
tony barnhill Online   content
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Originally Posted By: jlaird
Intresting to say the least.

Somewhere we got to get a concourse guide.

Concourse guide for Bugeye or Srite wouldn't mean anything to the restoration/judging of a Midget....that's one of the things I've got against "The Original Sprite & Midget" - its too broad to be worth much.

Oh, I just slid up under my '74 RWA with a flashlight...I'm the 2nd owner & the female original owner from whom we got it never did anything to it except repairs.....3rd member is dirty but unpainted as is the transmission.
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#464292 - 06/02/08 09:15 PM Re: '63 Midget Rear End [Re: tony barnhill]
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We need all the Spridget concourse guides.
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AN5L 24515, Eng. 9C-U-H 16218, Apr. 1959
"Miss Agatha" On the road again and smiling.

We were there, Lake of the Ozarks, 2008!!


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