- 61. Re: 72 Triumph spitfire (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:19:06 EDT
- website. == The ONLY reason I can think of why it would HAVE to be a '72 engine is for the sake of originality. A '72 Spitfire engine is by far the LEAST powerful of all the "stock" 1300 or 1500 engi
- /html/fot/2004-07/msg00168.html (7,741 bytes)
- 62. Re: Brake Fluids (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:14:10 EDT
- I readily admit two things: 1. I've heard pretty much all the arguments about each type of fluid many times; and 2. Despite the paint-removal risks, I've always stayed with good old Castrol GT/LMA. T
- /html/fot/2004-06/msg00091.html (8,113 bytes)
- 63. Re: tr7 trans (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:08:40 -0400
- == Jeff, can't help on the modification for Spitfire issue, but I can point you to a table I put together several years ago for VTR. It lists pretty much all the "small car" gearbox ratios, including
- /html/fot/2004-06/msg00250.html (7,214 bytes)
- 64. Re: REASONS TO REPLACE YOUR LITTLE BRITISH CAR (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:10:28 EDT
- You keep losing dates on left turns. == Many years ago, I had a girlfriend who was not terribly impressed by the view of the road (under her feet) in my TR3A.... --Andy Mace
- /html/fot/2004-06/msg00259.html (6,976 bytes)
- 65. Re: tr7 trans (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:06:12 EDT
- Jeff, can't help on the modification for Spitfire issue, but I can point you to a table I put together several years ago for VTR. It lists pretty much all the "small car" gearbox ratios, including th
- /html/fot/2004-06/msg00260.html (7,085 bytes)
- 66. Re: REASONS TO REPLACE YOUR LITTLE BRITISH CAR (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 17:59:18 EDT
- Did you instruct her to wear motorcycle boots so she could help you up steep hills? :) == Actually, there was no problem with the car mechanically. It's just that some people didn't accept my persona
- /html/fot/2004-06/msg00263.html (7,112 bytes)
- 67. Re: This is insane! (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 10:14:31 -0400
- For the most part (and certainly from the viewpoint of my own wallet), I agree. On the other hand, if you saw the car for which I believe this housing is intended -- and you knew what effort and expe
- /html/fot/2004-05/msg00022.html (7,556 bytes)
- 68. Re: For Immediate Release : Reports of GT6s Getting Greater (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 12:43:19 -0400
- Not to burst your bubble (I hope you are indeed correct about GT6s getting some respect), but everything you note has also happened to me with my white Herald 1200 SEDAN! Ok, not the valet parking bi
- /html/fot/2004-05/msg00031.html (7,431 bytes)
- 69. Re: Group 44 GT-6 (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 23:31:21 EST
- Saw this on the Triumphs list and thought someone here might be interested in one way or another. Don't reply to me; I know nothing! :-) Use the "from:" address below. --Andy Mace
- /html/fot/2004-04/msg00029.html (7,015 bytes)
- 70. Re: Crown wheel and pinion (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:49:31 -0400
- I'm almost certain that a crown wheel and pinion from the earlier Spitfires and almost any Herald would work, since the center section was derived from the old Standard 10 axle. Most 1200 Heralds and
- /html/fot/2004-04/msg00212.html (8,592 bytes)
- 71. Re: re-torqing cylinder heads hot??? (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 09:36:53 -0500
- OK, this leads me to an admittedly somewhat naive question. If one, under the proper circumstances, retorques the head while hot, does one still then wait until the engine cools before resetting the
- /html/fot/2004-03/msg00009.html (8,224 bytes)
- 72. Re: virus (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:41:17 EST
- Sigh.... Within the last couple weeks, there have been three major new viruses and several additional variants of each. It's gotten so bad that, from what I read, these little hooligans who create th
- /html/fot/2004-03/msg00040.html (7,280 bytes)
- 73. Re: SPIT/GT6 (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 20:37:09 EST
- Steering arms only go through the GT6 uprights, but most other bits are the same. The towers do unbolt from both (as well as from the Herald)! --Andy Andrew Mace, Vice President, Member Services and
- /html/fot/2004-03/msg00058.html (6,923 bytes)
- 74. Re: Clevite 77 bearings (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:25:56 -0500
- NAPA online lists Item#: CEBMS1112P for $69.99! --Andy Mace
- /html/fot/2004-03/msg00289.html (7,025 bytes)
- 75. Re: KONI (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 09:54:52 -0500
- You might give <http://www.shox.com/> a try.... --Andy Mace
- /html/fot/2004-03/msg00307.html (6,444 bytes)
- 76. Possibly the perfect word to describe our cars? (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 22:41:14 EST
- I got this today from another mailing list I'm on: FINALLY, a word to describe what we've all been going through for years with our beloved cars! :-) --Andy Mace, newly confirmed *Resistentialist*
- /html/fot/2004-03/msg00312.html (6,938 bytes)
- 77. Re: Chuck-it checklist (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 12:06:25 -0500
- In some cases, it has taken me the better part of a quarter-century to either find a use, or find another USER, for any given Triumph part I've saved over the years. And I've saved a lot, including s
- /html/fot/2004-02/msg00032.html (6,632 bytes)
- 78. Re: Fw: Ffinish building the triumph based formula car?! (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 20:27:46 EST
- Right! Even before the Spitfire, ISTR that some of those bits (from the Herald) were actually used on some early 1960s F1 cars.... --Andy Mace *Mrs Irrelevant: Oh, is it a jet? *Man: Well, no ... It'
- /html/fot/2004-02/msg00073.html (7,980 bytes)
- 79. Re: TR3 rear axle ratios? (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:56:37 EST
- True, but the pertinent "inside bits" are the same...or interchangeable. I happen to know of a TR4 rear axle that gave it's R&P to help get a TR6 going again (right, Bob?). --Andy Mace "The secret of
- /html/fot/2004-02/msg00131.html (7,809 bytes)
- 80. Re: Not to open the can, but... (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 14:19:27 -0500
- http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=876&item=3661163675 Not I, although I might still have a partial can of Girling Crimson Brake Fluid stashed away.... :-) --Andy Mace
- /html/fot/2004-02/msg00294.html (7,180 bytes)
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