James:
My Tigger is in the garage safe and sound. Floyd is here but is going
East , thank you Lord. See the Va. folks at Berkley (I hope).
Mark
James Barrett wrote:
> Folks,
> Floyd found out that there were only 3 or 4 Tigers in
> the Melbourne/Palm Bay area and heard a rumor that there were a lot more
> about to gather up north so he took off to the NNW, looking for
> more.
> Minimal damage here, lost some screening on the pool
> enclosure and had several tree limbs in the yard.
>
> Did discover the answer to my first question about
> driving 140 down wind. The wind has much better brakes
> than my Tiger and better acceleration too. So if I stick
> my hand out the window at speed, I will feel anywhere from
> minus 155 to plus 140 MPH depending on the exact second.
> The wind comes in gusts as well as sometimes continious.
>
> Seriously, I had peak wind gusts of under 70 MPH.
> My Tiger was hiding in the garage and I had nailed the door
> shut in case it wanted to go out at night.
>
> Stayed up all night just in case. About 3 AM some
> idiot decided to take a dip in the surf. Had the cops
> all over him. No idea what they arrested him for, total
> stupidity did not used to be a crime.
>
> Could have started to pull the motor on Thursday
> afternoon, but not knowing what the storm was going to
> do I decided to keep the Tiger driveable. Too tired
> on Wed afternoon to start the transplant.
>
> Worked on the neutral safty switch for the
> C4. Found that I had the C4 internal linkage wrong.
> When you put the valve body in the transmission,
> you have to blindly align two linkage levers with
> a couple of spool valves. Finally got them aligned
> correctly. The kick down lever fits at the end
> of a spool. The shift lever has to engauge a slot
> in the manual shift spool. You can just barely
> see the connections with a flashlight held at a certain
> angle while the valve body is held slightly out of
> place by hand.
>
> Good luck to the folks up north of me.
> James Barrett Tiger II 351C and others
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