- 1. Alpine V for sale, Roanoke, Virginia (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 23:21:49 -0500
- My 1967 Alpine V is for sale. B395008855, I believe, working from memory. The car has not been on the road since 1985 as it has a broken crankshaft pulley key (NOT the crankshaft -- just the key!). T
- /html/alpines/2006-11/msg00010.html (6,715 bytes)
- 2. Re: [Alpines] Andy Rooney owns a Tiger (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:33:10 -0400
- From personal experience, Andy Rooney is a bit of a jerk. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir! _______________________________________________ Alpines@autox.team.net http://autox.
- /html/alpines/2007-09/msg00004.html (6,878 bytes)
- 3. [Alpines] FS: Alpine V Crankshaft (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:12:57 -0400
- In my move last year, I came across an Alpine V crankshaft which I had forgotten I owned. It seems to have been machined and is coated with grease of some sort -- Cosmoline? I suspect that I have had
- /html/alpines/2008-04/msg00009.html (6,689 bytes)
- 4. Re: [Alpines] Speedometer questions (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:43:14 -0400
- This Speedometer seems to have been intended for a 4:22 rear-axle Alpine. This was the alternate setting. I don't have time at the nonce to dig out my archive of Rootes Group parts manuals (shucks, I
- /html/alpines/2008-04/msg00014.html (8,118 bytes)
- 5. Re: [Alpines] electric fuel pump (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 16:40:59 -0400
- off With respect, I'd go back to the Stromberg CD-150's: they are a most elegant piece of work and bullet-proof. I mounted an electric fuel pump on the outside of the battery box on my Series V. I ha
- /html/alpines/2008-05/msg00004.html (7,390 bytes)
- 6. [Alpines] Electric Fuel Pumps on Alpines (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 21:08:16 -0400
- Curt and I had a lengthy discussion of this thirty years or so ago. The rule on electric fuel pumps is to keep them at the bottom point of the fuel feed. That is, figure out the lowest point in the f
- /html/alpines/2008-05/msg00005.html (6,840 bytes)
- 7. Re: [Alpines] fuel pump spacer (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 20:06:50 -0400
- It is about half an inch, working from memory, maybe a bit less. I made one from stock aluminium about thirty years back when mine died from fatigue. Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr
- /html/alpines/2008-05/msg00011.html (6,834 bytes)
- 8. Re: [Alpines] [Tigers] Speaking of Panhard Bars... (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:54:56 -0400
- The much more civilized Alpine did not need a Panhard Rod to produce manueverability which, all else being equal, routinely leaves Tigers in the dust on any sort of decent back road. The original Tig
- /html/alpines/2008-07/msg00003.html (8,509 bytes)
- 9. Re: [Alpines] brake problem (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:14:00 -0500
- All but the very last Alpine V's had the auto adjust system. The last of the breed went back to the manual adjust system as used on the Alpine I to IV and on the Triumph TR's. No, I don't know the ch
- /html/alpines/2008-12/msg00005.html (7,739 bytes)
- 10. Re: [Alpines] brake problem (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 18:49:27 -0500
- There were some problems with the automatic adjusting brakes but they were pretty reliable: I have around 100,000 miles or so on them and they never let me down. The reason for the switch is the same
- /html/alpines/2008-12/msg00007.html (8,546 bytes)
- 11. Re: [Alpines] brake problem (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 01:03:47 -0500
- This message appears to me in a manner which I cannot read. I have a grave problem with contrast, so dainty blues on a white background give me little to work with. Try DARK black on white to make it
- /html/alpines/2008-12/msg00010.html (8,711 bytes)
- 12. Re: [Alpines] brake problem (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:14:17 -0500
- ??? As you have no idea where I live, how do you know what my local crime rate is? Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir! _______________________________________________ Support Tea
- /html/alpines/2009-01/msg00007.html (7,072 bytes)
- 13. Re: [Alpines] I can't read this either... (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:15:26 -0500
- Scots Gaelic: "Never did a man die without someone being grateful". Marc msmall@aya.yale.edu Cha robh b`s fir gun ghr`s fir! _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://ww
- /html/alpines/2009-01/msg00008.html (7,139 bytes)
- 14. Re: [Alpines] Parts needed: series V license light bits, (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:46:49 -0400
- Would you like a scan of the parts manual section on this, Barry? I'll be happy to oblige. I can also give you a scan of anything mentioned in the repair manual. Avoid Victoria at all costs. Sunbeam
- /html/alpines/2009-09/msg00025.html (7,947 bytes)
- 15. [Alpines] AVOID UPS (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:56:30 -0400
- but made you, One large step along the way is to avoid the shady ladies, UPS and FedEx, and to stick with the very reliable Postal Service. The only significant problems I have ever had have been wit
- /html/alpines/2009-10/msg00019.html (7,444 bytes)
- 16. Re: [Alpines] AVOID UPS (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:03:51 -0400
- more items than the rest combined. Try this one on for size. Contemplate the shipping of an item bearing a serial number which is no longer in production outside the US. UPS, FedEx, &c, will take you
- /html/alpines/2009-10/msg00025.html (8,219 bytes)
- 17. Re: [Alpines] [Tigers] Drop Spindles (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:08:09 -0500
- Thank you, Brother Edinger. Now, pray, share with us the basic concept: what in the world are "drop spindles" I suspect I must know this before I can die happy. Do not let me down. I am VERY thick-wi
- /html/alpines/2009-12/msg00010.html (7,910 bytes)
- 18. Re: [Alpines] [Tigers] Drop Spindles (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:13:58 -0500
- Thank you, Michael. Say all again all after, as they say. This is gibberish. I do not know what "a point where they extend out" means in common English. Marc _________________________________________
- /html/alpines/2009-12/msg00011.html (8,179 bytes)
- 19. Re: [Alpines] [Tigers] Drop Spindles (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:16:40 -0500
- Thank you, kind sir. You are trying to communicate, but what you are saying is gibberish. Why cannot you folks just can the technical language and give us the actual stuff. Why not reference drawings
- /html/alpines/2009-12/msg00012.html (7,999 bytes)
- 20. Re: [Alpines] [Tigers] Drop Spindles (score: 1)
- Author: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:19:20 -0500
- come Thank you. But I have not the slightest idea of what you are speaking. What the hell is a "drop axle"? Is there anyone out there who can set this out in Layman's Terms or who can provide a drawi
- /html/alpines/2009-12/msg00013.html (8,545 bytes)
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