John - You may not remember me, but you and your wife stopped by my shop way back in the 1980’s on a return trip from a Florida event. I followed your services back then, but recently I think you mentioned retiring. I will be hitting 76 this year, but I feel as if I was 60. But the new cars have far exceeded my brain capacity with its technology. So, I sold my shop in 1993 and got out of the business. I was burnt out. Real estate business looked much more appealing. Anyway, I did manage to hold on to three of my MG’s and they have been stored away in a garage which is air conditioned and heated. That did a good job maintaining the cars. I have recovered enough to try and get these cars back on the road.
My question to you is concerning my 1980 Limited which has the Leyland factory air conditioning installed made for the 75-80 B’s. I am looking at the Moss Motors supercharger for that model and I need a little advice if you can help me with that. I have corresponded with Moss several times and they are limited in there tech help as they no longer supply the A/C they sold for the ’62-’76 cars with supercharger, kit #363-405. So, not being able to get parts either, I have decided the best route is to leave my A/C and alternator belts alone, (which are driven from the water pump pulley), and install their latest kit made for the ’75-80 supercharger #150-070. It seems all I have to do is find the correct length belt since I won’t be incorporating the alternator as the kit provides. However, that leaves me with not having the ability to adjust the supercharger belt. Can you suggest a fix for that? My though is to find a way to have one of the two idler pulleys made to be adjustable.
Any advice concerning how I may work this out would be greatly appreciated.
Luke Snyder