- 21. Re: car id (was: My 2 cents on machine shops) (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 08:49:49 -0400
- Nice brochure for the Daimler Dart. I want one (and my wife just walked in, and she wants one, too)! But the original posting said the car in question was a Triumph. I believe that would have to mak
- /html/spitfires/1999-07/msg00692.html (6,767 bytes)
- 22. Re: Clutch and Tranny Question -> Midget 1500 (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 20:56:41 -0400
- The fact that you can feel the brakes dragging the engine, while at a full stop with the clutch in, suggests your clutch is dragging. Most likely cause is excess play in the linkage. What kind of li
- /html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00306.html (7,334 bytes)
- 23. Re: N.J. show (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 01:20:45 -0400
- Also, let's not forget frequent contributor Chris Lilja and his gorgeous blue TR4(A?) Much thanks to Jack Brooks, who has single-handedly revived the Westwood All-British Show over the past 2 years.
- /html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00814.html (8,098 bytes)
- 24. Re: Houston, How good is Epoxy? (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 22:50:34 -0400
- Ring and pinion come as a matched set. You can't just replace one or the other without serious risk of chipping a pinion tooth, and we all know how much that can hurt! When mine went last fall it we
- /html/spitfires/1999-05/msg00032.html (6,952 bytes)
- 25. Re: Is it hard to change the rear hub outer oil seal? (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 01:28:11 -0400
- Richard Stieg replied, As with so much else, the key here is to use the right tool. You with the wrong tool will either fail to get the hub off, or bend the axle, or both. A machine shop will probabl
- /html/spitfires/1999-05/msg00657.html (8,362 bytes)
- 26. Re: Rear Oil Seal (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 09:24:07 -0400
- No reason you can't remove the hub in situ. I'm just not sure how you're going to fish the old seal out with that axle running up the middle of it. The whole project is not that difficult or time co
- /html/spitfires/1999-05/msg00736.html (6,581 bytes)
- 27. Re: new spit, new problems (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 09:48:33 -0400
- Check the setup of the meter. Perhaps it's set to measure AC volts? Perhaps one of the leads is in the wrong socket? Perhaps you need a new multimeter? Otherwise, that's not a car battery. You measu
- /html/spitfires/1999-05/msg00784.html (8,336 bytes)
- 28. Re: Help with Spitfire Valve Adjustment (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:38:23 -0400
- Larry, The idea of calling for such and such another valve to be "all the way open" is to make sure the cam lobe of the valve you are adjusting is at its minimum. Thing is, it stays at its minimum (
- /html/spitfires/1999-04/msg00653.html (7,351 bytes)
- 29. Re: reverse detent...or lack there of (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 20:48:53 -0500
- Well, yes. You're supposed to have to press downward on the knob to get into the Reverse gate. It's easily fixed - you have to remove the gearbox cover to get at the two parts in question - but you d
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00183.html (7,211 bytes)
- 30. Re: Triumph Italia? (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 20:54:09 -0500
- Um, Andy, didn't you forget something in this list? Michelotti's first Triumph was, of course, the Herald. As for the Italia (gorgeous car!) there's a section dedicated to it at the VTR website, http
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00409.html (7,696 bytes)
- 31. Re: Multiple seat Triumphs (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 11:57:21 -0500
- Excuse me????? What about the stare factor? In a Herald, you'll even get a 'thumbs up' from the poor driver stuck behind you as you struggle up a slight incline (that was his thumb, wasn't it?:) Any
- /html/spitfires/1999-01/msg00135.html (7,693 bytes)
- 32. "Free" Steering Column Decal Offer (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:06:23 -0500
- Because of an extreme case of Shipwright's Disease, I find that I've had to paint the steering column in my Herald before I could put the differential back in (curious? It's simple, really. Removed t
- /html/spitfires/1998-12/msg00329.html (7,836 bytes)
- 33. Re: LBC related Trivia Quiz (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 00:58:25 -0500
- Booker T. and the MGs is one... I think "Triumph" was from the late '70's, so they don't count... BK
- /html/spitfires/1998-12/msg00332.html (6,910 bytes)
- 34. Bill Kelly's New Email Address (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 20:52:38 -0500
- Hi, It's me. A venerable IP domain, dss.com, has vanished into the ether, and with it my free internet access:{ I'm back on these lists, after a painful 6-hour absence, through my brand new commercia
- /html/spitfires/1998-11/msg00502.html (6,624 bytes)
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