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MG MG Y Type - New owner MG YA 1675

Hallo
my second MG in my live
infected with english sport cars in 1996
a Ford based Spartan 3.0 Essecv V6
a english kit car like MG TF ( sorry )
last year seen a MG TA in ebay
my wife liked it
so i bought it
4 weeks ago, i was looking for MG parts in the bay
and i saw MG YA 1675

the same xpag engine as my TA
i was a little battle with my wife to buy it
i bought the car without having a really look to it
but the previous owner was so kind
that i bought it
on friday eveing in heavy rain he arrived in Waltrop
thanks to Joe
he had a horrible rainy trip with the car to germany
i visit two web forum for my TA
there i posted all pictures of the work i done
so i started yesterday my MG YA story, sorry , i don t found this here

here the link to MG YA

https://www.mgexp.com/forum/t-series-and-prewar-forum.46/mg-ya-no-1675-from-1948.4022768.4023267/#msg-4023267

and here to MG TA

http://www.mg-tabc.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=928

difficult for me to visit three web adress all the time

so if i have a problem i will look here too

Sorry school english 40 years ago

If someone needs 3d printed parts, or want to designed one, ask me, i have posted some pictures to the TA forum,. see above

Kind Regards to all MG infected
Franz
FT Franz

Franz,

Welcome to Y Types, hope you have a long happy ownership.
You will find additional resource and inspiration found at the following Facebook group, please request to join.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/114930561925728/

The group was set up by Casten Deuster who is from Germany too. There is a superb event held annually in Bergischland which is advertised on the International MG Y Type Register website found -

https://www.mg-cars.org.uk/imgytr/registeryoury.shtml

Please do feel free if you have not already, to register your details and have a browse of your fellow Y types in Germany and across the globe on the Y's on parade gallery.

All the best

Richard Knight
Richard Knight

Hello,
i don t like Z. so i don t us facebook and whatsapp.
Only one day with whatsapp, the day before Z bought it.
so nothing for me.
I don t like it if it is not allowed to read something without giving your name.

I have registered the car here, but no picture in the moment
will do it
FT Franz

Hello
i make some progress the last two days
i took off the seats, the windows and some more
posted pictures here: ( Sorry i was there first, i have a TA too )

https://www.mgexp.com/forum/t-series-and-prewar-forum.46/mg-ya-no-1675-from-1948.4022768.4023267/#msg-4023267

now i have to get off the front window and the dashboard
you have some notes for me ?

also i will take off the mudgards runningboards and floor inside

I don t know how to use this forum effectiv, so i ask.

the engine and other technical part works perfect, the car was driven in England last month , it had mot, engine was overhaulen some years ago,

so perhaps i don t touch the engine bay

i will overhaulen all wooden parts, the leather, the floor the dashboard and the paint inside and outside also all wires of the electric
i will make the car fit for the next 20 years ( or more)
FT Franz

Franz

Sounds like you need a copy of the Workshop Manual. What Operating System do you have on your computer? If you have a DVD/CD reader then check out our range of DVDs on https://www.mg-cars.org.uk/imgytr/stores/yzpublications.shtml.

Between the Workshop Manual CD and Let there be Ys and this website you will have everything you need I think.

Paul
Paul Barrow

so i will read before.
have done it in the morning
but often tips from people have done it is better ;-)



FT Franz

so i read in the book and we get it off
also the dashboard with all instruments
wipers and so on

i found rust unter the left side rear door,
and the left mudgards in the back

i think a typical position for the rust ?!

so i have to take off more then i hoped yesterday :-(

some tips to get off the rusty screws from the running boars and the front wing and so on

i have to do it
i will do it
without information how to do it
it will be more difficult
it is different to do it on an old car than a new car discribed in the manual

i have much time to do it
but i want to do it before the winter is coming, so i have time in the winter to make the new metal sheets and so on
FT Franz

Franz

For typical rust areas check out https://www.mg-cars.org.uk/imgytr/buyersguide.shtml. The rust you are seeing there is probably due to blocked and perished sun roof drain tubes.

If you break the bolts off in the running boards you will need to fit more captive nuts to refit the running boards - I believe there is a thread in the Hints and Tips page on that.

Paul
Paul Barrow

i get the sunroof out
was easyer than i thought
;-)
some pictures in my blog
FT Franz

Also the right front wing

what is the weight of the house when all parts out
i want to sandblast it before welding ad painting

Today totally surprised when I saw the hydraulic jacking system.

what kind of oil you take seems to be working.
had searched the workshop book for the lifting points for a jack and stumbled over his feet in the process

would be awesome if they left.
something never seen before, highlight on every meeting


https://www.mgexp.com/forum/t-series-and-prewar-forum.46/mg-ya-no-1675-from-1948.4022768.4025706/page-3#msg-4025706

i will desging some knobs with the octagon and the MG Logo for wipers and someswithes, if someone is interested...
FT Franz

Be aware that there are quite a few differences between YA and YB models.

The books you have are for YB.

You need to get the CD from Paul for YA.

Good Luck

Tony
The Classic Workshop
Black Mountain
Australia
A L SLATTERY

you mean this here

MG Y Type Saloons and Tourers
the green one ?!

my english is not so good, i need pictures to understand it.

i have to take the body off
someone in the past take gfk and a lot of filler under the wings,

i hope to get off the rear wind this afernoon
FT Franz

Hi Franz

No Tony is pointing out that two of your manuals there are MG YB and since you have Y 1675 (an early Y) the manuals you need are the Y and YT Manuals CD.

The books Let there be Ys and Y Type Saloons and Tourers are great reading for restoration reference books.

The great advantage of having any and all of these on CDs is that they are document searchable and you can print off pages to take with you into your shop or garage when you go to do a job and it does not matter if you get oil, dirt and grease over the page as you can throw it away when you are done with it.

Paul
Paul Barrow

Hi Franz, I have a YA workshop manual I bought in error (I have YBs). Direct message me if you would be interested in purchasing it.

Good luck!
Marc
Marc Hanson

@ Marc Hanson
what s your email

we can change the books

i have a TA with xpag engine, and a manual for it.

the house is empty
tank floor and so on

running well in the moment
FT Franz

Hi Frank
Welcome to what is a smashing forum for discussion on technical matters for those wise souls who have a passion for the car.
Now, I think that I might be in the same boat as you in terms of me being the custodian and restorer of Y5703 for three months now. Perhaps we could compare notes.
Kind regards,
Andy
A J R Felthouse

Hello Andy
i have a TA too and i am nearly every day in the
https://www.mgexp.com/forum/t-series-and-prewar-forum.46/
forum since one year.
I have still problems here with login, my computer is not able to store the login , so it is much easyer for me to write in the other forum
There i started my blog to the mg-ya some days before i came here
https://www.mgexp.com/forum/t-series-and-prewar-forum.46/mg-ya-no-1675-from-1948.4022768/
i make picture from nearly every step i do.
Only a few parts i have to loosen before i will be able to take off the house.
i have orderd some steel for fixing in the middle, see the picture in my blog. but i have to wait some days for shipping

we can write here and there.

Regards
Franz
FT Franz

Hi Franz
When you say take of the house, do you mean KAROSSERIE which in english is car body
John YB0362
JC Jebb

yes
Sorry
don t know all special words in the moment
will learn ;-)

today last parts taken off
tomorro i will weld the stabilisation parts in the car
after this i will take the car body off
but
i have to sell a car before, so i have one other garage for the rolling chassis

FT Franz

so 2 weeks later and the body is off the chassis

some luck
some experience

part one is done


happy !!!

here are all pictures

https://www.mgexp.com/forum/t-series-and-prewar-forum.46/mg-ya-no-1675-from-1948.4022768/


always problem to login here
the browser don t regognice me so very difficult
FT Franz

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