Contents  Index  So you think you want an MGB or V8? 
Body  Brakes  Clutch  Cooling  Electrics  Engine  Fuel  Gearbox  Heater  Ignition  Propshaft  Rear axle  Steering and Suspension  Wheels and Tyres 
Miscellaneous  Downloadable PDFs  The sectioned MGB at the British Motor Museum, Gaydon

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... allowing you to print them out and take them into the garage and get them grubby instead of your laptop or phone. Produced using PDFCreator.

Main text and sub-sections (large topics in their own right) are printed two sheets to a page, appendices one sheet to a page for clarity of drawings, schematics, etc. These are PDFs produced direct from the web pages, which are optimised for online use of course, hence there are unclickable links in the PDFs. When printing your computer should allow you to specify which page or pages you want to output if you don't want the whole lot. This is particularly applicable to advance curves and schematics, but will apply to anything if you are just doing a particular job. Separate downloads for each main section (and Advance Curves separated from the remainder of Ignition) have been created to reduce file size and download time. Appendices are separate to main text as it was found that combining them doubled the appendix size even though the main text is very much smaller, rather than simply adding the two together.

First suggested by Fabio Lupano and I'm grateful to him for his suggestions and comments on structure and layout etc. Fabio recently bought a 1965 MGB in very good condition in Scotland and drove it back to Italy - quite a journey in any event, let alone in an unknown quantity!

All PDFs either new or updated 1st January 2024. I have split the sections into 'Main' and 'Subsection' where topics had grown beyond a certain size to warrant a page to themselves. This makes spell-checking easier for me as only changed pages need to be checked instead of the whole section.

Contents - 560KB
Index - 210KB

Buying and running an MGB - 810KB
Appendices - 11.7MB

Body main text - 5.1MB
Subsections - 6.6MB
Appendices - 17.7MB
Paint Colours- 276KB

Brake main text - 3.1MB
Appendices - 11MB

Clutch main text - 1.2MB
Appendices - 7.4MB

Cooling System main text - 2.3MB
Subsections - 1MB
Appendices - 8MB

Basic Electrics - 687KB
Electrics System main text - 1.6MB
Subsections - 6.5MB
Appendices - 22.3MB
Schematics - 1.5MB
Indicators diagnosis schematic and chart - 166KB

Engine main text - 3.3MB
Subsections - 4.3MB
Appendices - 9.7MB

Fuel System main text - 3.1MB
Subsections - 2.3MB
Appendices - 10.7MB
SU Needles - 240KB

Gearbox main text - 2MB
Subsections - 1.8MB
Appendices - 20MB

Heater main text - 2.4MB
Appendices - 7.3MB

Ignition main text - 1.6MB
Subsections - 2MB
Appendices - 5MB
      Advance curves main text - 787KB
      Advance curves charts - 700KB

Propshaft main text - 373KB
Appendices - 1.3MB

Rear Axle main text - 1.2MB
Appendices - 2.3MB

Steering and Suspension main text - 3.2MB
Subsections - 3.2MB
Appendices - 6.6MB

Wheels and Tyres main text - 1.6MB
Subsections - 200KB
Appendices - 3.1MB

Miscellaneous main text - 610KB
Appendices - 1MB