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Life got in the way. Had to take care of my elderly mother until she passed and then moved closer to my daughter. Bought a fixer upper house that took more fixing than anticipated. I am just getting back to working on the midget. Wiring is the next project and then I will be installing a weber 32/36 ...

I am finally getting to the engine refresh stage of my swap. I have the engine completely torn down. Did not find anything amiss except the intake valve lifters on the #1&2 cylinders were hitting the bottom of the head and the push rod on the #2 intake valve was off the rocker arm and wedged between ...

The lifters are all the same length. I talked to Randy at BRD and he had never seen a lifter hit the bottom of the head in the 40 years that he has been messing with these engines. I was able to find a set of new valve springs and as soon as the spring compressor I just bought gets here I will ...

I have finally started to tear my 3TC apart to refresh the engine before it goes back into my 1966 MG Midget. I was surprised at how clean the inside of the engine was for an engine with 249,000 miles on it. The pistons all have .050 stamped on the top which led me to believe that the engine at some ...

The engine has over 200,000 miles on it. I plan to do a complete rebuild with all new bearings, gaskets, seals and whatever else needs to be fixed. That's when I will have my questions for the forum. I have been reading through the posts on engine and drivetrain.

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I have two threads running on the mgexp forum. https://www.mgexp.com/phorum/ One is a general thread about the resurrection of my midget https://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?3,3483766 The other deals specifically with my 3tc swap. https://www.mgexp.com/phorum/read.php?40,3716265. Lots of pictures ...

I have a 1966 MG Midget that I am swapping in a 3tc and 5 speed out of a 1982 Corolla SR5. The engine is in place. It is a nice fit and a fairly easy swap if any swap can be considered easy. Not looking for lots of horsepower. A midget only weighs 1500 lbs. So it doesn't need much hp to have lively ...