- 121. Fwd: Re: Setting valves, was: Follow-up question (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 06:33:57 -0500
- uncle jack
- /html/fot/2005-06/msg00379.html (7,840 bytes)
- 122. Re: Uncle Jack racing sighted (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 05:57:58 -0500
- What a delightful surprise to not only have a fellow gas-pumper recognize the cars, but recognize us as well! Nice to meet you too, Aaron. The drive from Atlanta to northern Illinois is, uh, long. Bu
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00020.html (8,203 bytes)
- 123. Re: Exhaust Gas Temperature Gage (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 06:01:51 -0500
- Mine also shows no gauge reading at idle. The needles are rather slow to respond and take a few seconds to catch up to what's going on in the pipes. At full song on a long straight several of us see
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00021.html (8,881 bytes)
- 124. Re: Exhaust Gas Temperature Gage (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 20:56:38 -0500
- I have an analog EGT setup, made by Westerburg, sold by Pegasus. My probes are in the #1 and #4 pipes, about 6" away from the face of the head, per manufacturer's instructions. Kas has since pointed
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00049.html (10,832 bytes)
- 125. float bowls on HS6 carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 21:01:09 -0500
- Sunday at the Mitty I came in from the race running on two cylinders. The cause was that the single bolt holding the float chamber to the body of one carb had fractured and the float chamber was hang
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00050.html (7,788 bytes)
- 126. Mitty (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:11:51 -0500
- Misc comments: I had a great time. Helping make it a great time was Tom Strange who put up the big top, Joe Alexander and Mike Jackson and Tim Suddard and Richard Taylor who made it happen. We should
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00063.html (8,309 bytes)
- 127. Mitty mechanical stuff (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:23:01 -0500
- I thought it might be of use to my fellow racers to point out several things I've learned over the past week or so that may help save somebody else some grief: Steering rack mounting brackets fail on
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00065.html (7,429 bytes)
- 128. Re: Mitty (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 08:39:55 -0500
- The view from the back of the field was quite peculiar. Due to the combination of the pace car driver speed and the line-up speed used by many drivers, the entire rear half of the field in both races
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00069.html (8,680 bytes)
- 129. Mid Ohio (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 11:52:23 -0500
- This morning I sent a message to Mid Ohio, telling them that their track had been suggested as a site for a future Triumph event. I told them that this was meeting with strong resistance because of a
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00080.html (9,497 bytes)
- 130. Randy Williams? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 12:38:17 -0500
- Does anyone have an email, phone, or street address for randy Williams or his mechanic Cricket? uncle jack
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00082.html (6,634 bytes)
- 131. Re: TR2-4A Silicone Valve Cover Gaskets - J.M.Wagner Sales, (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 02:56:00 -0500
- I wish you all the best. No spoiling of reputation here. Glad that you keep first things first. It's folks like you who pursue these projects that makes life with Triumphs more bearable.
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00180.html (8,180 bytes)
- 132. Re: SVRA @ ROAD AMERICA (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:39:36 -0500
- uncle jack too. Everybody else wimped out. Hey, what's a little 30 deg weather among friends? new blue
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00249.html (7,100 bytes)
- 133. Road America May 13-15 (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 15:23:10 -0500
- The RA event was big and it was a success, but not an artistic success. Very cold and very rainy all weekend. I spent most of the time huddled in the car with my sweetie -- outside temps in the 40's
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00298.html (9,163 bytes)
- 134. pedals (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 06:30:16 -0500
- Does anybody know if the pedal weldments and spacing the same in the TR3 and the TR4? uncle jack
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00312.html (6,104 bytes)
- 135. what's wrong with vintage racing (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 13:58:36 -0500
- I think the whole scene is pretty neat, for richer or for poorer, for better or for worse. I counted up the number of open trailers at the Road America event -- 250 entrants or so, about ten open tra
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00324.html (10,021 bytes)
- 136. Re: Axle shafts (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:32:24 -0500
- I have never heard of one of these axles failing due to lack of tensile strength. They always fail from fatigue cracking.
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00342.html (6,612 bytes)
- 137. What's wrong with blah blah (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:40:37 -0500
- At the Mitty, a sharp-eyed tech inspector noticed that my steering rack moved up and down when the steering wheel was jiggled. Disassembly revealed a broken weld on the steering rack mount. Lady Fran
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00343.html (6,911 bytes)
- 138. Re: TR6 brake problems (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 06:06:40 -0500
- I had exactly the same problem two years ago and it took me all summer to find the culprit. In my case, the culprit was the master cylinder. )Plus, rebuilding it did not help. The only cure was repla
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00436.html (7,658 bytes)
- 139. Benefit (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 19:04:01 -0500
- Robert Houston, who signs his name BearTransfer on the FOT list, was recently hit by the tragedy of the death of his daughter. One of the daughter's two children witnessed the freak accident that cla
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00466.html (6,792 bytes)
- 140. Re: European GP (not LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>
- Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 17:16:51 -0500
- Sorry Bill, but I've seen a picture of Danika in a bikini, and you're no I cheered her success, especially after reading Janet Guthrie's book.
- /html/fot/2005-05/msg00521.html (9,473 bytes)
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