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'63 Midget Rear End

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tony barnhill

tony barnhill

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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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uh oh! That was supposed to be painted. :smile:
 
tosoutherncars said:
Minus four points for originality... tsk tsk.
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& where would that be? :lol: the missing clamp?
 
Alum on rear case and tranny are supose to be painted, rear end black and tranny engine color.
 
:iagree: Not original, but clean, bare aluminum looks MUCH nicer IMHO!! :wink:
 
jlaird said:
Alum on rear case and tranny are supose to be painted, rear end black and tranny engine color.
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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!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Not original, but clean, bare aluminum looks MUCH nicer IMHO!! [/QUOTE]
On an early Midget, this <span style="font-weight: bold">IS</span> 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.
 
Intresting to say the least.

Somewhere we got to get a concourse guide.
 
I do however think the bare alum. looks better than the painted.
 
Hey, Kim - is yours bright red?

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jlaird said:
Intresting to say the least.

Somewhere we got to get a concourse guide.
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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.
 
We need all the Spridget concourse guides.
 
jlaird said:
We need all the Spridget concourse guides.
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One of the things I've never liked about the term "Spridget" is that it tries to homolgate the Sprite & the Midget into the same car - they're not!
 
jlaird said:
We need all the Spridget concourse guides.
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Not entirely sure I agree - we might actually get serious around here. :banana:

FWIW prior to my dismantling, everything was a lovely shade of oil - and it seemed to have come that way from the factory :laugh:
 
I must agree Tony I have several Diffs at Home. Two From Midgets (Both Natural in Color) and two From Sprites (Both have black Paint on em.)
 
Hi Scott, how's everything going?

So when you say "natural color" do you mean rust brown?
That's the color of mine, and I'd consider that to be "natural".

:wink:
 
I do not know about the color of diffs. Honestly, I do not care, but I could see where there should be two separate concours guides (I thought there was). However, to say that they are "two different cars" may be a bit much. The differences in any given model year are superficial at best.
 
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