- 41. Re: U Joint circlips (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 09:56:25
- Chris, your answer is yes. I have experienced this. What happens is the yokes are made of such a soft metal that when we remove the ole u-joints (through banging and pressing in vises) we inadvertent
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00023.html (7,995 bytes)
- 42. Re: Overdrive story (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 14:24:09
- James, I don't know where the manual is coming from, but everyone I have ever looked at and checked (including mine, that is now in operation) clicks. You won't be able to hear it with the tranny cov
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00029.html (7,569 bytes)
- 43. Re: soft-top replacement (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 11:13:15
- John the way I was taught to do it was to unsnap it completely pull it part way back and pull the top away from the frame so it lays on the scuttle, fold the frame down the whole way, then fold the t
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00063.html (9,234 bytes)
- 44. m/c (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 10:06:41
- I am rebuilding my master cylinder and would really like to clean all of the black gunk out of the resorvoir. Any suggestions? (bty late model, tandem type) Patrick Bowen '79 Spitfire Jacksonville FL
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00085.html (6,485 bytes)
- 45. Re: Spring Compressors (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 10:52:48
- Jack, the way you prevent it from blowing a hole in the wall is to make sure you place a nice stirdy object directly in the path that within ten days will heal over, (I used my right shin, and would
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00143.html (7,922 bytes)
- 46. m/c rebuild take 2 (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 11:03:37
- OK, I finally finished rebuilding my M/C last night. But let me tell everyone what not to do, as I almost destroyed a perfectly good (albeit dirty, igave up trying to clean it) reservoir. The rubber
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00144.html (7,264 bytes)
- 47. Re: Leaky Diffy (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:51:49
- It actually is a pretty simple job. I took mine off to do it, but I guess it is possible to do it with it still hanging on the car. The oil seal on the input is a little hard to get out, but a screwd
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00191.html (8,353 bytes)
- 48. brake bleeding again (sorry) (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:19:35
- I hate to bring this back up to the list but here is my dilema. I rebuilt my master cylinder a week ago, and after installing have spent hours pumping the living daylights out of it. I benchbled it,
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00333.html (7,305 bytes)
- 49. RE: FW: Mustang...Spitfire??? (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:08:20
- The only downside to that is that 3rd o/d and 4th are practically the same. Never figured out the logic there. Patrick Patrick Bowen '79 Spitfire Jacksonville FL
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00337.html (12,039 bytes)
- 50. Re: Gearbox wires (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:55:39
- Maybe they were running low on regular tops and used some o/d tops instead? Don't know but stranger things have happened. Patrick Patrick Bowen '79 Spitfire Jacksonville FL
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00344.html (8,931 bytes)
- 51. Re: engine rebuild kits (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 16:04:38
- Yeah, OK. I called TRF today, now they say 1 week. I will try again next month and see how long. (ok i can't check trf, still no catalog, but they say Patrick Bowen '79 Spitfire Jacksonville FL
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00395.html (6,681 bytes)
- 52. Re: Color of road wheels? (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 11:32:13
- Speaking of Wheel colors, both my '76 and '79 have black wheels but almost every other spit I have seen have the silver what is the deal? BTW both of my cars are originaly red. Patrick Patrick Bowen
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00469.html (8,740 bytes)
- 53. Re: Color of road wheels? (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:52:09
- Now the wheels I have seen from the factory had Black hubcaps, mine are silver and are apparently original. They wouldn't have silver wheels with silver hubs would they? Have I come across an oddity
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00478.html (9,114 bytes)
- 54. Re: Clutch questions (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:49:40
- I just finished rebuilding my master cylinder (brake), for the second time. The first time I could not get any pressure to the back brakes, almost no movement at all. as it turned out the cylinder I
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00619.html (9,320 bytes)
- 55. Re: Tech ?? Spitfire/TR6 steering rack (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:26:56
- that the angle is different for where the column connects. This joint sits at a different angle on each car and I don't know if it would be possible to make it work on the other Patrick Bowen '79 Sp
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00654.html (7,392 bytes)
- 56. Re: Door handles/locks (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 12:50:04
- The problem is with a pull out radio is they are not covered under most auto insurance policies. The radio has to be fully attached to the car in order for it to be considered part of the car. I pref
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00670.html (10,199 bytes)
- 57. Re: o/d xmsn (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:00:25
- Depends, Was it professionally rebuilt? Is there documentation showing it was rebuilt or is it a "yea, just rebuilt it" type of deal. Does it include the shifter, solenoid, mounting plate, and mounts
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00693.html (7,435 bytes)
- 58. Re: '77 Spit re-starting problem (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:54:26
- Vic, as for problem number 2, I think your guess at the u-joint was correct. Those don't always clunk when they go bad. Mine had the same symptoms as yours but it threw me off because it did not matc
- /html/spitfires/1999-03/msg00721.html (8,882 bytes)
- 59. Front End Rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 09:25:38
- I am preparing to rebuild the front end of my car (within a month... see how long it takes me to do something, or save up for it). I have several questions to try and determine how much I need to rep
- /html/spitfires/1999-02/msg00008.html (8,053 bytes)
- 60. NON LBC - Triumph Support Vehicle (score: 1)
- Author: jak0pab@jak10.med.navy.mil (Bowen, Patrick A. RP2)
- Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 13:17:33
- OK, I have a 97 Chevy Lumina with 38,900 miles on it (Warranty ends theoretically at 36,000) I changed the oil last night and the thing is leaking like a sive!!!! Specifically the oil pan and timing
- /html/spitfires/1999-02/msg00017.html (7,801 bytes)
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