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Ahhhh sorry I did not realise that this one only a temp measure whilst you finished the other projects. Out here tis a bit of wilderness for stuff like this so I bought some of my refurbishing AP stuff from Mike Satur then realised had not ordered enough wear plates as the bag only contained one caliper set, the bolts came in a bag for two caliper to add to the confusion. As Mike was taking an age to supply at that time I ended up talking directly to AP Lockheed and ended up dealing with a main distributor so the cross over pies, bleed nipples and rubber caps and the remaining wear plates cost a fraction of the ones from Mike Satur.

I would personally be more careful in buying used AP's in future now after taking these apart to refurbish and I will be pulling the pads out on those fitted to "Elsie" and taking the calipers off the hubs to clean them inside before the winter sets in and probably part way through to stop the dust build up and the corrosion it causes. There were some new AP's on offer a while back but again they were beyond my available budget at the time.

Also hope to get some 280 mm discs on the back of "Elsie" over the winter. Will see what I can knock up spacer wise for the rear caliper and find the drill guide for the T-bow drilling rig so that the discs can be re-drilled accurately. Just need to pope the last ball joint and take the rear hub off to clean up from the spare rear sub frame so the hub can be on the bench to get the spacer right. Have been wondering about making one up out of 1" think HE30 alloy to hold the caliper. Have some left over from the days of making slab yokes for motorbikes.

Funnily enough I bought the spark plugs that are now in "Elsie" from "Glen" at mgmanialtd.

That was the last Panther to be converted and the only Mk2 one, the other 5 were Anthracite and wet all ordered from Longbridge at the same time . I have searched for two that still exist, the third is on SORN and the other two have evaporated. The owner didn't give me the VIN for the MNX Mk2 Panther.

Evening,set about the interior on the panther today,the green and black trim not to my taste with the silver body colour.,the dashboard binnacle cracked ,the centre console as pictured.In short a mess.
The carpets are teared that start stop button that only starts the car but doesnt cut it out had to go,the electric roof that doesnt work coming out and the scruffy wiring for roof, led interior lights, and ICE all removed stripped it back to basics.
Will be fitting very shortly new genuine MG roof with heated glass screen,new dash,black and silver trim,TF one piece foam backed carpet and a mg standard radio.

Over the weekend i have stripped out all the unneccesary wiring all the wiring is now back to OE spec and the ignition now works off the key. I have removed the daft start button, a lot tidier.
Fitted a vgc 2010 complete dash with the piano black heater vents and piano black dashboard fascia and LE500 heater controls.
Black ash interior windscreen surrounds and sun visors have replaced the old beige ones.