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MG MGB Technical - Frogeye Rear hanger

Can anyone help with some advice on a problem I have with the rear hanger.
The spring securing set bolts one has sheared off and the other has rounded off.
s haughton

Wrong forum.
Paul Hunt 2

As Paul says, the 1/4 elliptical arrngement at the back of the frogeye was never used an a car badged with an octagon. I would imagine the key thing is that the spring boxes are in good shape
Stan Best

Stan,

I'm pretty sure that the early MG midgets had both the octagon and the 1/4-liptics.


S Haughton,

Try the Midget Sprite Technical section. Probably plenty info there in the archives.

Charley
C R Huff

I just checked in "Great Marques, MG" and that does say that the MKI Midget had 1/4 elliptics so yes there may be some help on the Midget board, however I think the Frog eye section of the AH site is the place to go as 1275 midgets with semi ellipticals are in the vast majority here.
I did once see a Frogeye fitted with a mildly tuned 1.8 K series on the Frontline stand at Silverstone. I said to the salesman, let me make a guess, this car does not stil have it's original rear suspension?
Stan Best

The Midget/Sprite board is the place to go. There is quite a number of owners there with early Sprites and Midgets with 1/4 elliptic rear suspension. Including me :-)

Tore
Tore

I have never thought about this before, the book mentions spring boxes with the locating bolt going through, this implies it's a free bolt rather than a set one, or are there fixed nuts on the spring boxes? Only an engineer would worry about this if it's not his car :-)
Stan Best

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