With my 64 MGB I had NO problem with turning off the Flow-Through Ventilation. Either the starter wouldn't start, the generator wouldn't generate, the Smiths electric fuel pump wouldn't, or the two batteries wouldn't hold a charge. Learned an awful lot about cars from that one! Girls liked it though. :-) Jake On 7/30/06, Pensioner <al_knoll@pacbell.net> wrote: > > funny...waaay funny. The British Automobile Industry invents flow through > ventilation. > > In my tattered past I have owned several 'pinnacles of British > engineering' > many with side curtains one with electric rollup windows and a soft top. > Flow through was there. MG, Swallow, XK120, TR2/3/3A/B, had magnificent > flow through ventilation. Only problem was turning it off. You > accomplished that by reducing the wind pressure to zero. Easy to do with > the ignition key. > > "The finely crafted parts falling off this car are of the highest quality > British manufacture" > > Al > > Owned Nortons and BSA Victor too > > Finally learnt my lesson taught by that feller in Tacoma. >
-- Jake 1984 Vanagon GL 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie" www.crescentbeachguitar.com |
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