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1. Re: Bondo removal... (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Fri, 27 Jan 1995 17:30:15 -0500; The 3M paint-stipper wheel (for your drill) works well, too, but it really sends a lot of bondo-dust everywhere! Just wanted to mention that some brands of filler used to have lots (up to 50%) of asb; /html/british-cars/1995-01/msg00991.html (6,676 bytes)
2. Re: TR3 Rear Springs (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 14:33:25 -0500; But I bet that the available springs are the TR3A kind, with the spacers on the passenger side. Anybody know if these would be OK for a 2? The only new ones I've seen (bought a set from TRF about thr; /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00640.html (7,535 bytes)
3. Re: TR3 Leaf Spring Length? (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 00:53:48 -0500; The center-to-center spacing of the spring mount points is 39.75 in. The eye-to-eye spacing of the spring itself is 41.0 in., measured, if I am reading this right, at a static load of 515 lbs. Unload; /html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00679.html (7,329 bytes)
4. RE: Garage pits (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 12:14:41 -0500; I have just got to ask. What on earth is the rationale for making garage pits illegal???? Garage pits, particularly small at-home ones, have a long history of injuring and killing people as heavy nox; /html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00182.html (7,913 bytes)
5. Re: Crankcase oil vs. gearcase oil, etc. (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Wed, 26 Oct 1994 12:39:58 -0400; My thoughts on the gearcase lubrication debate--crankcase oil or gear oil? Hi, coupla little things... I don't know of any reason that single viscosity oil can be "better" than multiviscosity (of sim; /html/british-cars/1994-10/msg01371.html (9,810 bytes)
6. Re: smog pump removal (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 12:14:31 -0400; You will probably have to run the carbs leaner if you have to pass a tailpipe sniffer test. This is due to the fact that the exhaust will not be diluted by the air pump. Just to maybe stave off a bit; /html/british-cars/1994-10/msg01407.html (7,164 bytes)
7. Re: Crankcase oil vs. gearcase oil, etc. (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 19:50:43 -0400; One other other thing is that the additives used in some gear oil (and aftermarket stuff like Slick-50) are incompatable with Laycock overdrives. Hmm. John, how do you then explain that Triumph speci; /html/british-cars/1994-10/msg01420.html (9,249 bytes)
8. Renta Mini (in the UK)? (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Fri, 5 Aug 1994 18:09:12 -0400; Hi all, A heretofore completely normal colleague of mine here at MIT has, it seems, developed the urge to hire a Mini for a week while she is in England at the end of August. The usual big car-rental; /html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00170.html (6,697 bytes)
9. Re: Wire Wheels (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 16:54:50 -0400; BTW, I've heard the same thing about Daytons being of better quality; but if you want to stay "original" I guess you'd have to go with the Dunlops. Even that's stretching it; "Dunlop" wheels are made; /html/british-cars/1994-07/msg00060.html (7,096 bytes)
10. Re: Red Stuff (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Thu, 30 Jun 1994 14:30:42 -0400; Does anyone know what that special red "grease" is tha comes with brake and clutch cylinders? You get a tiny little tube of it and then the first time you clean it away to check something it's gone.; /html/british-cars/1994-06/msg00928.html (6,612 bytes)
11. Re: Welding, zinc, rustproofing (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Mon, 2 May 1994 16:56:15 -0400; Basically, the coated metal welded as if the metal were dirty or rusty (not too surprising), and it was hard to get a clean weld. I cannot check, because I chucked the can in disgust, but I suspect w; /html/british-cars/1994-05/msg00043.html (7,457 bytes)
12. Tab washers [was Re: Flex-Hones] (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 19:25:49 -0400; He felt the locktab washers were an outmoded technology, and no longer necessary if high quality bolts were used and torqued properly. He pointed out that they are soft metal, and deform under the bo; /html/british-cars/1994-05/msg00669.html (8,001 bytes)
13. Re: Tab washers [was Re: Flex-Hones] (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 00:15:11 -0400; Any thoughts on thread-locker compounds such as the various ones made by Loctite? There are a couple of problems with Locktite. If you do not run into them, the stuff is God-like. The problems are he; /html/british-cars/1994-05/msg00677.html (9,147 bytes)
14. Re: wire wheels... (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Thu, 17 Mar 1994 14:09:23 -0500; The real issue with chrome spokes is that the chroming process causes some hydrogen embrittlement of the metal, making the spokes more likely to break. This alone makes stainless spokes worth it, in; /html/british-cars/1994-03/msg00428.html (7,256 bytes)
15. Re: Color choices for lbc's (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Sat, 5 Feb 1994 15:17:40 -0500; My TR-3 is Corvette Yellow and I love it! I could care less if they never painted them this color when they were new, they just didn't have the imagination to see how good it would look! Hm. I'm abou; /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00170.html (8,318 bytes)
16. Re: Hammertone Paint (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Mon, 7 Feb 1994 17:53:16 -0500; I'm pretty sure that Hammerite does make a crinkle-finish paint. If not, I discovered how to do crinkle-finish without the special paint, as part of my continuing study on How To Ruin Paint. Hm. Regu; /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00226.html (8,175 bytes)
17. Re: Questions (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Thu, 20 Jan 1994 23:15:49 -0500; I feel Bad about Copper. But I'm a tough driver. On a once-in-a-while car, maybe. On a daily driver that is subject to alot of vibration and stress, no way. On a race car subject to high temperature,; /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00418.html (8,075 bytes)
18. Re: Stag question... (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1993 14:16:45 -0500; (if they could have fixed the Stag's problems: cooling?) There was an article in the now-dead "Sport and GT Market" magazine some time ago about one Guy Bretzman, who owned a Stag done right. Among o; /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00382.html (7,613 bytes)
19. Re: Security Tabs/Locking TR7/8 Convertibles (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1993 14:30:22 -0500; The TR7/8 top is unusual... I assume that this is why the top comes with tabs that dangle downwards from the corner of the top that is lowest and next to the roll-up door window. Personally, I am not; /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00437.html (7,098 bytes)
20. Re: AutoCAD drawings - <tcollin@mtu.edu> (score: 1): Author: John Wroclawski <jtw@lcs.mit.edu>; Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 00:51:26 -0500; I once posted an interest in getting production drawings of LBCs... If there is anyone who knows where these drawings are being stored, and what it would cost to get a set I would surely like to know; /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00539.html (7,368 bytes)

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