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121. Re: Rear Spring Sag (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 21:11:48 -0700
Hi Tony, In my experience restoring MK IV and 1500 springs, this is what if find: That is good. That daylight is correct.. That "curled around part" is the safety leaf. If the main leaf, the one with
/html/spitfires/2000-03/msg00579.html (8,501 bytes)

122. Re: Dash warning lights (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 09:14:28 -0700
Hi Philip,, The experience I have with my 1500s and MK IV, plus books show: In the centre panel 1. Some early MK IVs, perhaps only British, have no warning lights, 1. Black plastic dash '71 MK IV (I
/html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01077.html (8,313 bytes)

123. Dash warning lights (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 11:00:09 -0700
Hey Philip, I just found an old dash in my junk that DOES have 4 warning lights in the centre panel. They were the rectangular type, but because they are gone, I don't know what they were. Also don't
/html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01080.html (6,961 bytes)

124. Dated Components (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:02:11 -0700
While assembling my '73/74/75 or 76 Spitfire from boxes of bits, I've noticed what seem to be manufacturing dates stamped into various parts. The date identification of Triplex windshields and window
/html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01118.html (8,086 bytes)

125. Re: Rearend re-assembly tip (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:19:17 -0700
An added tip to help insert the rearend. I find that the frame 'pockets' where the rearend's 'ears' go often gets squeezed narrow so it becomes impossible to get the rearend and those two rubber wash
/html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01119.html (7,380 bytes)

126. Re: Rear Spring question (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 19:29:51 -0700
While re assembling my spring/diff which did not have a rubber pad, I found a scrap of heavy duty rubber at suppler (forget where). Cut it to fit the width, then decided how long to make it. I reckon
/html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01121.html (7,408 bytes)

127. Alternator Info (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 07:47:08 -0700
I picked up a Wilson rebuilt alternator, still in its box at a swap meet for $50 last month, then wondered if it would fit the Spitfire. Not the right way to buy car parts, I know! So I went to Wilso
/html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01203.html (7,869 bytes)

128. Re: Restoration Questions (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 12:25:13 -0700
Hi Patrick, Here's 4 out of 5: 1. press the black plastic collar hard against the door panel, then with a long thin probe or punch, push out the rolled pin. Everything falls off after that. 2. push t
/html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01395.html (9,225 bytes)

129. Re: Looking fora strange part (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 17:05:52 -0700
Hi Bill, Being in the process of getting a local muffler shop to build an exhaust pipe for my 74 Spit, I can say that they did find a flange they'd cut off some other piece if pipe. They also had the
/html/spitfires/2000-03/msg01533.html (8,622 bytes)

130. Magazines (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 06:35:31 -0700
Hi listers, My wife, bless her heart, bought me a treat yesterday. She happened to be in Indigo Books (in Canada) and found on the magazine rack two magazines I have never seen before. British Car, p
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00001.html (7,624 bytes)

131. The Stolen Vehicle (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 19:52:55 -0700
Some time ago listers may remember my saga about trying to register a Spitfire only to find it had been stolen. It went like this: In 1990 my 18 year old son bought a Spitfire from a wrecking yard in
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00034.html (8,100 bytes)

132. Re: Success at last! (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 17:17:58 -0700
Hey Chris, congratulations I'm looking forward to that day, hopefully sometime this summer when I can say the same. Mines been in various stages of dissassemblement for 8 years! Cheers, Fred Fred & W
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00119.html (7,613 bytes)

133. Re: Oil Filter Defeated: New Problem (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 11:48:11 -0700
Hey Jeff Had a similar problem with the bolts into the front oul pan. i used a tap and a T-handle and rethreaded it out to a metric because it is just slightly larger. Large enough to catch into new
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00235.html (7,809 bytes)

134. How many of us? (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 19:59:28 -0700
Andrew Holmes <holmes_law@hotmail.com> got this one by mistake - I simply hit replhy instead of reading the address. So don't put me in charge of communication :-) How about a cold weather squadron u
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00353.html (6,939 bytes)

135. Re: Black plastic Dash (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 09:12:16 -0700
The black moulded plastic dash is out of a MK IV, from 1970-1972. Apparently there were two types - one laminated plastic on wood, the other fully moulded. I have the moulded variety in my 71 MK IV.
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00413.html (7,721 bytes)

136. Door window glass (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 20:32:00 -0700
In the process of building my car out of boxes of bits, I discover I have two right hand door glasses (windows) in the glass frames, but one left hand glass frame with no glass - ie broken. So in ord
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00509.html (7,346 bytes)

137. Re: Door window glass (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 19:49:41 -0700
Thank you Joe, David, Terry and Richard for the tips. I had wondered about what to do with the rubber bit stuck in the frame. First I'll try to stick the window into it. If that fails, I'll try to ge
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00570.html (7,874 bytes)

138. magazine ads (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:10:07 -0700
Hi Dave, My computer's been down for a couple of days, but I just say your offer on Spitfire ads. I'd be interested in the first MK IV,and 1500 ads to about 1974. I just bought a black and white 2 pa
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg01098.html (6,378 bytes)

139. Re: Custom dash -- sin or inspired? (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:44:04 -0700
Hi Jeff,, in the process of building a '73 1500 from boxes of junk I came upon the same problem. I opted to build my own. I bought a 5' X 5' X 3/8" piece of 7 ply Baltic Birch for $30, made drawings
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg01101.html (9,277 bytes)

140. GT6 register (score: 1)
Author: Fred Griffiths <griffco@mail.cadvision.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2000 21:24:06 -0700
I forgot who had created the register page for GT6's. But for his information, here's a dead one. MK 2, KC54769L died in Bucks Wreckers, Calgary. After I get my share of the carcass it will probably
/html/spitfires/2000-01/msg00126.html (6,625 bytes)

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