Piston for early Spitfire calipers are available in stainless steel from
Whote Post restorations. I bought some two years ago.
Ralph Jannelli
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Curry <curry@wolfenet.com>
To: dave eaton <dezn490@wadnr.gov>
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, October 14, 1997 7:11 PM
Subject: Re: Spitfire MKII Questions
>dave eaton wrote:
>>
>> Joe,
>>
>> The front calipers from early Spits are not interchangeable with later
Spits,
>> rebuild kits have been avaliable for them but pistons have been hard to
come
>> by. I had this problem with front calipers on my Herald could get the
rebuild
>> kit but I needed pistons as well and couldn't get them. I switched over
to GT6
>> (because I had them) which parts are much easer to grt a hold of but had
to
>> change the virtical links to change calipers.
>>
>> Dave Eaton
>> 71 GT6 MK3
>> 62&65 Heralds
>> TSSC NW/USA/rep
>> Olympia, Washington (the state)
>> dezn490@wadnr.gov
>
>Thanks Dave for clearing that up. Now that you mention it, it is the
>pistons that are no longer available. I know there was a reason I am
>hanging onto the newer type calipers.
>
>Thanks to all who pointed out that the kits are still available.
>
>BTW, On the gas tank issue, It looks like I'm back to patching the old
>one. The new one I located turns out to be a later type that has a
>suction tube instead of the gravity feed.
>
>Joe Curry '63 Spit
>
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