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It's sitting pretty high, too. Return that to stock height and there's no way it will fit unless you run really skinny tires.
You can use a wire wheel axle modified to fit bolt-on hubs, then bolt up the TR-6 wheels. I'm not sure if the track would then be correct but it would be a lot closer!
There is a LOT more space above the wheels than standard though! Typically the rear fender lip covers the top of the tire, and that's with a small tire installed. those look like at least 185/70R15 which is much taller than stock. Perhaps your springs are too stiff, as are many repros these days.
Here's a photo of the stock fit with steel wheels. Look at the amount of dish on the TR6 compared to the MGB wheels. I have TR6 wheels here I can measure if necessary, but by eye I would guess at a 1-2" difference per side.
Thanks for the advice. I got the TR6 wheels anyway (part of a bunch of parts I bought without working out where to store them) and they are actually early TR6 (or TR250) wheels which are 5.5 inch wide rather than 6 inch of the later wheels, which seems to fit a bit better. They look way too big with the redline tyres (MGBigfoot seemed like an appropriate nickname), but with lower profile tyres they might look okay. I will have to think about it and decide if it is worth trying.
It is pretty tight for that sort of offset on the rear of an MGB. I run TR-6 (5.5') wires on my MGC with no issues but they don't have as much offset as the steel wheels did.
The MGA is much less demanding - these are 5.5' Dunlop wheels on my deluxe coupe, with about the same offset as the TR-6 steel wheels.
The rear is indeed tight, in particular the right side as the axle is not correctly centered. The left side don't rub, but the right side do sometimes.
Following your experience is it possible to better centre the axle ? the difference is about 10 mm.
Centering the axle can be as easy as loosening the U bolt nuts, levering it to the side and retightening, or it can requite a Panhard rod or relocating the spring seats on the axle. you just have to try and see.
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