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Q & A: Seats, Unlocking Seized Engine

Friday March 29th, 2002
Q & A, MGA, MGB, MGC, MG T-Type, Midget
Hello John:
I am currently restoring a MGA and have Deluxe Seats for it. Do you know
whether standard seat rails fit the deluxe seats? I looked in a 1600 parts
book and it did not seem to have a separate listing for seat rails for
Deluxe
Seats.
Also, I have acquired a Twin Cam that had sat in a barn for ten + years.
The
hydraulics are shot, of course, and the engine is locked up. Do you know
of
any trick way to unlock a seized engine. I realize that the rings are
probably shot but I wanted to get the car running and driving before I did
extensive restoration work on it. Any suggestions? The car itself looks to
be
in really good shape and would be considered a nice "driver" if it were
running!
Sorry to hear that you are no longer doing your "summer party."
I did get to go to one of them a few years ago (without my car) and really
enjoyed it.
Thanks for everything you do to promote the MG marque.
Sincerely,
Brian Findley

BRIAN!

The method we've used successfully in 100% of the "frozen engines"
with which we've had to free up -- except for the last which was a horribly
rusty MG Midget 1500 -- is this:

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