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RE: Help with small part

To: "Eric A. Yates" <eyates@enteract.com>, <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Help with small part
From: "Gregory W. Smith" <gsmith@cvn.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 00:37:39 -0400
Get your fitting out and go to town in your local hardware store's plumbing
section. I forget the specifics on mine (You will NOT find a bolt to screw
in this hole)... and I drove the owner of the small store nuts. She left and
I continued picking my way through the plumbing bits until I found a match.

It's a brass hex-head plug. You may find something else to fit as well. Good
luck!

Gregory W. Smith      http://www.cvn.net/~gsmith
Member, Central Pennsylvania Triumph Club
1980 Spitfire 1500 "for the wife" :)
1980 TR7 Spider v8 (in progress)
1980 TR7 30th Anniversary Edition (deceased)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-spitfires@autox.team.net
[mailto:owner-spitfires@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Eric A. Yates
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 5:42 PM
To: spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Help with small part




Hello list,

I am searching for a little part that is keeping my Spitfire off the road
and I am getting sick of looking for it! Help!

My car has had its air pump removed, and that leaves a hole in the exhaust
manifold... a hole which was plugged with something that blew out somewhere
along Interstate-90. The car is now incredibly noisy as you might imagine,
so I haven't been driving it.

The hole that was plugged is actually a hole through a fitting that screws
into the exhaust manifold. This fitting is threaded on the outside,
non-threaded on the inside, and, of course, it is stripped and mangled and
generally not usable. What I really want is a solid fitting that matches
the outside threads, so I can screw it in the manifold and plug the opening
for good.

The trouble is, I can't find anything to match the thread, and I don't
think the major parts suppliers have anything like this because it would
not be a "stock" part. Anyone have any ideas/info/part numbers?

Thanks for any help,
Eric.


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Eric Yates
eyates@enteract.com
1978 Spitfire 1500 FM 71614 U
Chicago, IL USA


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