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41. test (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 07:25:07 +0100
/html/6pack/2006-09/msg00020.html (6,180 bytes)

42. Re: Ignition Lock (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:24:14 +0100
Metric fasteners on column locks? Could well be a factory original as steering locks used in the UK in the 60's and 70's were almost exclusively of German manufacture - Waso. Wilmot Breedon may have
/html/6pack/2006-09/msg00063.html (7,036 bytes)

43. Foreign Language phrase books - and a Triumph? (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 20:26:31 -0000
I spent a few hours over the Christmas break, browsing in one of my favourite bookshops in a nearby town. I had no specific mission objective, other than browsing and ridding myself of two hours of s
/html/6pack/2007-01/msg00012.html (9,577 bytes)

44. Re: NOT LBC related but could be, Copy rites for CDs (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:24:21 -0000
Richard, I thought of doing the same thing as a sequel to the 'Life at Triumph' book I published in 1998 - but this time around with me reading the stories. Did a lot of investigation in the UK about
/html/6pack/2007-01/msg00059.html (8,059 bytes)

45. Re: [6pack] TR6 stopping distance (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 08:32:38 +0100
Sorry Ed - but it's far more complex than that. In the first instance, I'd draw your attention to www.highwaycode.gov.uk/09.htm#105 where you'll see *typical* braking distances. These figures (or bet
/html/6pack/2007-05/msg00001.html (8,762 bytes)

46. Re: [6pack] Are TR6 door strikers and latches supposed to be (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 21:40:48 +0100
No, they weren't painted. However, if you want to twist some wire from a coathanger or somesuch the same colour as the car, that *would* be original 'cos in production that's what held the doors shut
/html/6pack/2007-05/msg00010.html (6,725 bytes)

47. Re: [6pack] TR6 stopping distance (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 21:14:40 +0100
I have now been able to obtain from definitive data on TR6 emergency stopping distances. The car in question is a UK spec TR6PI with overdrive and wire wheels but the actual weight of the test car wa
/html/6pack/2007-05/msg00022.html (7,703 bytes)

48. [6pack] Re: [TR] "Fastback" Hard Top (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:07:16 +0100
As H.R.H. Prince Charles commented some years ago on trends in British architecture, "it's like an ugly carbuncle on the face of an old friend." Jonmac
/html/6pack/2007-06/msg00028.html (6,778 bytes)

49. [6pack] Robin Penrice - formerly of TRIUMPH WORLD (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:11:35 +0100
Listers who have regularly or periodically taken TRIUMPH WORLD magazine, will probably remember a regular column by Robin Penrice entitled 'Memories of Coventry.' Less than one month ago, Robin was d
/html/6pack/2007-07/msg00009.html (7,907 bytes)

50. Re: [6pack] Differential Leak (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:20:31 +0100
Stuart, check the jiggle pin on the top RH side of the diff housing. This is a breather hole with a bent cotter stuffed in the hole that wobbles as you drive and (should) keep the breather clear and
/html/6pack/2007-08/msg00237.html (8,106 bytes)

51. Re: [6pack] Re: Looking for SU Needles (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:52:23 +0100
Hmm, spray painting a needle or depositing solder to change the profile? And then doing the same to get the other needle to match? No disrespect but I think you'd get much the same results by trying
/html/6pack/2007-09/msg00047.html (7,019 bytes)

52. Re: [6pack] Re: Looking for SU Needles (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 16:55:37 +0100
My comment to that if the supplier (in the UK?) is charging a flat rate of US$40 for shipping, he's trying to "lift a leg." IMHO, even US$20 would be excessive. If sent by airmail, the price would be
/html/6pack/2007-09/msg00051.html (7,590 bytes)

53. Re: [6pack] Lucas fuel injection (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 12:39:12 +0100
John, I don't have specific experience in retro-fitting per se, but memory and owning a PI Triumph saloon may help? Easy bit first, re the fuel tank. ISTR the tanks were no different except the PI ca
/html/6pack/2007-09/msg00080.html (9,321 bytes)

54. [6pack] Re: [TR] Wishbone Classics on eBay (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:45:55 +0100
It's very saddening to read messages like this on any email list and I'm sure Tom must have thought long and hard before posting his first note. I guess some people might be inclined to take Tom's co
/html/6pack/2007-09/msg00213.html (8,171 bytes)

55. [6pack] Triumph Trans-America Charity Drive 2009 - Announcement at (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 22:10:14 +0100
To which John Macartney (Jonmac) has replied: I wrote an obviously rather too long treatise on this forthcoming event earlier today. I say *too long* because no copy has come zinging back through th
/html/6pack/2007-10/msg00096.html (7,598 bytes)

56. Re: [6pack] Early vs Late Head (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:07:32 -0000
Ken Owen's wrote: Also, since the exhaust valves are smaller, would this not be a reason to use the early model head (without machining the later head to accept the larger valves). I do realize the v
/html/6pack/2007-11/msg00081.html (7,690 bytes)

57. Re: [6pack] Early vs Late Head (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 22:06:19 -0000
Hi, Dick Hum, ha, er.... Can't answer that one, though I'd be surprised an earlier model head was hanging around in Engine Assembly for that long. Of course it could happen but I'd be surprised if it
/html/6pack/2007-11/msg00088.html (8,277 bytes)

58. [6pack] Jonmac is Stateside bound! (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:06:06 -0000
Well, not just yet - but definitely in 2009. This is now official, though its already appeared in November's Triumph World. It'll also appear in November's The Vintage Triumph. After the better part
/html/6pack/2007-11/msg00119.html (9,320 bytes)

59. Re: [6pack] High beam (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:12:40 -0000
Marty, as I'm in the UK, I don't have experience of Advance Autowire. That said, fitting a relay to your heallight circuit is an excellent idea. Many headlight column switches are getting very ancien
/html/6pack/2007-11/msg00184.html (7,290 bytes)

60. [6pack] Re: [TR] Sway Bar Custom Mounts (score: 1)
Author: "John Macartney" <standardtriumph@btinternet.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 15:24:40 -0000
That's a neat solution Bob. As to your question, I think if you can maintain as near vertical movement, that should be OK. My only concern (and this isn't a criticism) is that the end links do seem t
/html/6pack/2007-12/msg00044.html (7,581 bytes)


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