Matt Drayer's Journal

The starter was the first item removed from the car back in the beginning. Pretty sure it was the original unit. I'd never seen a bendix starter, and as I learned about how it worked, and further that ours was dead, I decided we'd be replacing it with a nifty new gear reduction starter.

The Classic Car Performance / BritishStarters.com GRS arrived quickly and sat in the box, in the corner, for months before I got around to installing it on the engine in the Spring. And of course, you all know what happened -- it wouldn't clear the mechanical fuel pump...

So there I was sitting in the garage at midnight, reading MGExp.com threads on my phone and trying to figure out if there was a way that I could make this situation work. Maybe THIS project would be different than everybody else's project. Maybe I could get it to fit. Well, after two hours of futzing and a ruined mechanical fuel pump from a botched Dremel experiment, I was ordering a new electronic fuel pump and a blanking plate, just like everyone else!

<br/>Marblehad MG - Episode 28 - Electronic Fuel Pump