- 1. Re: welders (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 11:34:34 EDT
- An arc welder is a stick welder. You clamp an electrode in a holder and strike an arc between the electrode and the work. The electrode is consumed as you weld and you must keep the end of the conti
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00467.html (8,676 bytes)
- 2. Re: welders (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Fri, 25 Oct 91 14:37:37 EDT
- Michael Burdick asked me to forward his reply to the list... Return-Path: <mit-eddie!neuro.duke.edu!spit> Received: from Alliant.COM ([125.0.0.202]) by sherman.Alliant.COM (5.0/Alliant-5.0) id AA0506
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00476.html (8,536 bytes)
- 3. Re: Broken Shock Link (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 91 14:51:28 EST
- Jeff Shoemaker asked about driving his TR6 for a few days while waiting for a replacement rear shock link. Jeff, The droop stop for the rear suspension or the TR6 is contacted by the lever arm of the
- /html/british-cars/1991-02/msg00279.html (6,910 bytes)
- 4. TR3 parts car (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 90 17:28:35 EDT
- There is a small-mouth TR3 parts car available in Lynn, MA. The lower body panels have some rust through, though the bonnet looks straight and solid. The frame has some surface rust but I could not s
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00097.html (6,874 bytes)
- 5. Lars Anderson (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Fri, 4 May 90 11:48:52 EDT
- I will be in attendance and will be showing my car. Of course with the kind of cars that comes to a show like this, there is no chance that I can win anything. That dosen't really matter though. The
- /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00102.html (8,150 bytes)
- 6. TR6 tires (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 90 16:08:05 EDT
- The TR6 (and TR-250) did indeed come with 185-15 (80 series) radial tires. This presents a problem when buying tires for a TR6 as that is a pretty rare size today. The trend is toward lower aspect ra
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00176.html (9,008 bytes)
- 7. TR6 Tires (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 90 10:48:11 EDT
- Dave Kegel writes that he has seen TR6s with 215/60-15 tires. My Eurotire chart lists the minimum rim width as 6". Ok for aftermarket 6" wheels, like Panasport, but pushing it for a stock 5 1/2" whee
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00184.html (7,316 bytes)
- 8. TR-250 coming together (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 90 16:37:28 EDT
- I took a 'floating holiday' on Monday and over my self-made long weekend I made some real progress on getting my TR-250 back together. The work being done included: gearbox rebuild, refinish wood das
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00267.html (7,352 bytes)
- 9. Re: TR6 tires (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 90 13:16:33 EDT
- I took a look at my Brooklands TR4-TR5-TR250 road test reprints. It seems from TR5 road test reports from Britain and from Austrailia, that the TR5 PI came with 165-15 tires. One could speculate tha
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00277.html (7,584 bytes)
- 10. Re: Tales From the New Hampshire Woods (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Mon, 30 Apr 90 14:52:01 EDT
- This was my first day driving the 250 since last October, and I was having such a blast, that the cars/people at the side of the road were but a blur as I shot past. It wasn't until I came to the sto
- /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00368.html (8,272 bytes)
- 11. Re: parts for Lotus (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 13:59:59 EST
- It probably is a rev-limiting rotor. The distributor turns at half the speed of the crankshaft, so 3500 distributor rpm is 7000 crankshaft rpm. Bob Leger
- /html/british-cars/1990-03/msg00033.html (6,665 bytes)
- 12. Re: Strombergs (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Mon, 5 Mar 90 13:50:33 EST
- Before emission controls, Stromberg carbs had an adjustable jet assembly for setting the mixture. This was a large brass jet holder into which the jet adjuster was screwed. This assembly screwed into
- /html/british-cars/1990-03/msg00037.html (8,651 bytes)
- 13. backorder blues now looking brighter (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 90 11:03:40 EST
- One of my Winter projects has been to rebuild the gearbox of my TR-250. I was more than a bit discouraged when my order arrived from TRF two days ago and they had backordered the entire gearbox rebui
- /html/british-cars/1990-03/msg00309.html (7,292 bytes)
- 14. TRF (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 90 11:14:43 EST
- Last week when I mailed my order to The Roadster Factory, I included a short note telling them how pleased I was with a couple of the items that I had bought that they had reproduced with their own e
- /html/british-cars/1990-03/msg00335.html (6,525 bytes)
- 15. Re: spindles etc. (score: 1)
- Author: leger@Alliant.COM (Bob Leger)
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 90 14:45:27 EST
- On Spitfires and GT-6's, you are supposed to lube them with 90-weight oil in the grease fitting (which leads to the trunnion threads), but other TR's call for grease, I think (mjb, comment?). The fac
- /html/british-cars/1990-02/msg00256.html (7,450 bytes)
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