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well combined efforts of a few days. yesterday i pulled the radiator as the color of my coolant made me uncomfortable. Put the bottom rad hose in a bucket full of water. Then a larger bucket set up under the upper rad hose to catch what comes out of the block. Ill tell you nothing nice came out of there. When it started running clear I put both hoses in the same bucket and added CLR. Let that suds up for a bit and have been running a few cycles of water to rinse it out. Over all im pretty happy. the first pic is what came out of the radiator. the middle is the hose filling a bucket that the water pump is sucking from. the last picture is rust that stayed behind after i dumped the bucket the system puked in.

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I got my wire wheels back with the snow tires on them. Time to clean off the grease on the hubs that had been on there before i put it to sleep a few years ago. the shiny spots you see in the picture are hardened grease that did NOT want to come off. After a few hrs of "elbow grease" ..... ba da dum. All are shiny and ready for some grease.

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The winter before it was put away, my clutch hose had been oozing fluid. My brakes where fine i just remembered bleeding them the summer before was a tremendous headache. Somehow in sitting both systems where bone dry. how did i lose my brake fluid? So i had been putting both off this whole time. Banged out both today! My drive shaft is also back from the shop. I simply did not have a vise to put it in. good thing i took it some where to really needed to be balanced i did need a new flange as i ripped my other one apart somehow. That will be going on the next few days.
now if i could only get my trunk to stop leaking... its just to far bent i think.
 
wire wheels - snow tires - :cry:
 
Snow tires, I'm impressed!
 
eventually id like to find solid wheel knock offs for winter... till then, run what cha brung. Drew in the next few weeks ill be coming through the wasatch front in this with a heater that desperately needs to be taken out and gone through. having worked up little cotton wood in the past i feel better with snow tires. though makes donuts a bit more tough if memory serves
 
Snow tires are certainly the right choice for up here -- hope the road salt doesn't dissolve your car as you drive through!

Let me know if you need anything while you pass through.
 
I drove a wire wheel MGB for years, my primary (read only) transport. Back then we'd think nothing of an 850 mile round trip summer or winter. Had Semperit M&S tires then. The run was from Hampton VA to Pittsburgh PA. Thru the Allegheney Mountains. Kept a box of tire chains in the boot but never needed 'em. Went through some sizable snow storms, as well. MGB's are a fairly evenly weight biased design, 51/49 front-to-rear. Only thing to cause a halt would be ten foot drifts. ;-)
 
ten ft shmen ft... little bit of speed and you'll punch through. a drift has to end sometime right? the last winter i drove around with the mg may have been cold but i had some steep climbs around my house and i never got stuck. rear only snow tires may have had me to confident in a turn or two causing me to plow through what should have been a turn and ended up me being in some ones yard. Never something i couldnt get out of under my own power. Upstate NY winters are no joke either. Last time i was running around in the utah MTs i had a 1.5 front wheel drive civic hatch. Studded tires and that thing became a tank. we will see how this run goes. Depending on the problems i see, it will be the car my wife and i visit NY in the summer in. Why be conventional when you can drive a LBC?
 
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Drew if you saw my car you wouldnt be to worried about the salt. Out here in "salt city" we were the major producers of salt. its what built syracuse. However we have moved on from dumping it on the roads and graduated to using a brine solution that not only eats cars even faster then the rock salt did, it also attacks the electrical systems in newer cars. evil stuff that clears roads really well. Youll see me on here in a few years with pictures of a rotted car desperately looking for a donor body.:hopelessness::driving: my cars been zebart treated... but who knows when.
 
HAHAHAHA oh to true. Its all about the ride.

Remember that life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safly in an attrractive and well preserved body, but rather skid in sideways, biody thoroughly used up, and totally worn out, yelling "holy sh!t what a ride"
 
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