- 61. RE: Front spring trouble (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 12:32:56 -0400
- When I did the springs I had an unusual situation. I was working on the car in the back of a friend's factory. He had a huge great monstrous hydraulic press and a metal strapping machine for crates.
- /html/6pack/2002-04/msg00233.html (8,624 bytes)
- 62. RE: "The Little British Car Co." (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 17:23:26 -0400
- I have bought a fair number of parts from them ranging from interior panels to picnic baskets and exhaust system. Everything was well packed, delivered quickly and no problems at all. I think the sho
- /html/6pack/2002-04/msg00265.html (7,372 bytes)
- 63. RE: Call a Priest !! (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 08:53:01 -0400
- Hi guys: That helps my ego. I thought it was me who was useless on that job. I had hell getting prepped for rplacing the dash pad. Stuck and rusty windscreen mounts. Working in the back of a friend's
- /html/6pack/2002-04/msg00387.html (7,355 bytes)
- 64. RE: Exhaust (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:58:08 -0500
- Wouldn't that imply you had an enormous leak? I mean if the car can run with the exhausts plugged with tennis balls, then something is seriously wrong. That sort of leak should be very visible. Mark
- /html/6pack/2002-03/msg00049.html (8,446 bytes)
- 65. RE: Miata Racing - Futile Attempt? (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:45:48 -0500
- Lose the spare tire before the race. That sucker really weighs down the rear when you are trying to accelerate. You can cheat on the fuel as well. You can get 100 pounds off the normal weight just w
- /html/6pack/2002-03/msg00185.html (9,378 bytes)
- 66. RE: Tachometer Troubleshooting (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 12:43:30 -0500
- Something else? You mean like global warming disrupting the magnetism of the guage? ;^) Sounds like the end of your inner cable just wore out. Is it original one-piece or a replacement with that crim
- /html/6pack/2002-03/msg00192.html (7,459 bytes)
- 67. RE: TR6 Running Well. (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:42:17 -0500
- In Montreal: 23 degrees (F) Snowing like hell, 8 inches forecast by tomorrow morning. Bah Humbug!!! Mark Hooper 72 TR6 shivering in the garage okay, so maybe it's just my imagination..... The Temp in
- /html/6pack/2002-03/msg00323.html (7,567 bytes)
- 68. RE: crack in firewall (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:36:14 -0500
- Talk about a leadfoot! There must be some kind of award for pressing the gas that hard. Do you own shares in a gas company? ;^) Mark Hooper Has anyone ever experienced a crack in the firewall sheet m
- /html/6pack/2002-03/msg00333.html (6,954 bytes)
- 69. RE: Valve guides (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 18:29:41 -0500
- I must admit that in my Strength of Materials classes at school they always said that "Hard on Soft" was the way to have a long-lasting machine. Perhaps the exhaust head overrules that. Mark Hooper 7
- /html/6pack/2002-02/msg00108.html (7,375 bytes)
- 70. RE: Tube shock conversion and hub rebuilders (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 09:59:29 -0500
- I would have thought the "arc" movement of the original was undesirable but unavoidable with a lever arm. Hence the rubber ball-joint to eliminate pulling sideways on the trailing arms. Wouldn't the
- /html/6pack/2002-02/msg00245.html (8,974 bytes)
- 71. RE: Hogged frame (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:12:02 -0500
- Hi Cliff: I looked up hogging and got: Hog"ging (?), n. (Naut.) Drooping at the ends; arching;-in distinction from sagging. I thought the problem with TRs was they sagged when standing and then "hogg
- /html/6pack/2002-02/msg00283.html (7,494 bytes)
- 72. RE: Roll bar height (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 10:42:31 -0500
- As a reference, my rollbar is just under the top. If I forget to snap the flap just above the window onto the swivelling bar at the rear of the top frame, the metal fasteners clatter against the bar.
- /html/6pack/2002-02/msg00356.html (8,185 bytes)
- 73. RE: Emission Control (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:41:40 -0500
- Great note! Question. Does this mean that there is some sort of flap valve or whatever hidden behind that metal cover over the outpipe in the TR6 valve cover? If so, how is it changed? The idle in my
- /html/6pack/2002-02/msg00471.html (10,417 bytes)
- 74. RE: Bonnet securing hardware warning (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:16:06 -0500
- I got nailed with the same problem several years ago. The factory original bolts were definitely different lengths on my 72 TR6. I just grabbed them out of the bucket randomly when re-installing. Wro
- /html/6pack/2002-01/msg00100.html (8,979 bytes)
- 75. RE: Proper oil for O/D? (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:49:24 -0500
- I was shown a fax from Laycock advising a Canadian parts guy that racing 20w50 was the way to go. Mark Hooper 72 TR6 Hi Listers, Can somebody tell me what to use? Is 20w-50 engine oil OK? Thanks in A
- /html/6pack/2001-12/msg00250.html (6,955 bytes)
- 76. RE: Door trim panels (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 19:17:03 -0500
- I had a fairly good experience using masonite as a replacement. I used contact cement and short staples from an Arrow gun to hold the vinyl and piping onto the new board. The hardest problem was clea
- /html/6pack/2001-11/msg00301.html (7,497 bytes)
- 77. RE: Halogen dash bulbs? (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:56:14 -0400
- Any chance that these things burn those little blue plastic inserts that cover the bulbs? Mark Hooper 72 TR6 I was just about to post a note to the group about ways to brighten my dash for night driv
- /html/6pack/2001-09/msg00104.html (7,565 bytes)
- 78. RE: electonic ignition (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 13:23:43 -0400
- I switched my 72 TR6 over to a Crame Cams XR-700 a couple of years ago during reconstruction. The fitting was fairly simple with putting the ballast resistor on the flip side of where the hazard rela
- /html/6pack/2001-08/msg00134.html (7,881 bytes)
- 79. RE: Overheating - HELP! (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:12:53 -0400
- I believe I have had every overheating problem in the universe on TR6s. If you think your rad is not completely shot then it sounds like the dreaded head gasket leak to me. You get steam in the water
- /html/6pack/2001-08/msg00147.html (11,203 bytes)
- 80. RE: TR6 speakers (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:32:52 -0400
- Hi All: I had box speakers behind the seats for years. Then I really wanted to have a clean install and get back the space. So I measured rather carefully and discovered that you could fit a pair of
- /html/6pack/2001-08/msg00265.html (8,019 bytes)
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