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121. Re: Review! Re: Starting with clutch engaged helps thrust washers? (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:50:50 +0100
This was the thinking when I was learning to drive 5 ish years ago, in the UK you can get an Automatic licance, but no one does because you cant drive a manual car with it, but you can drive an auoma
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00786.html (9,841 bytes)

122. Re: Compression (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:37:06 +0100
I have done minimal unleaded conversion to my UK 4* 98 octain drinking beast. I went to the grean pump insted of the red one, and tryed to avoid the super unleaded pump. Go for the higher 9.0, becaus
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00787.html (7,542 bytes)

123. Re: O/D use (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:46:43 +0100
There realy easy to take off, and replace all the rubber O rings inside. This will stop the leaks which make it take longer to build up the 300PSI of engadged from 20PSI normal runing. Dropping the s
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00788.html (7,676 bytes)

124. Re: Intermittnet O/D (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:54:43 +0100
One thing I would add was a strange case of a dead solinoid at the local garage, I just happened to be there chatting when the found the problem. The overdrive didn't work properly, turn it on and it
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00789.html (7,714 bytes)

125. Re: AFTER THE REPAIR noises (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 13:26:38 +0100
It could be a problem with the wheel, a loose stud, or a crack. Mabe the mechanic has not tightened a nut up correctly on the UJ's.
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00790.html (6,955 bytes)

126. Recall info (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 01:05:51 +0100
Anyone know where the recall information from BL is on the internet, I found it months ago, but have lost it! James
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00791.html (6,444 bytes)

127. Re: Shifting difficulty found - Fathers Day diappointment (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:26:19 +0100
I'm just finishing a gearbox rebuild and overdrive conversion. Doing the labor myself to save the 1day bench time charge of the local mechanic 200 pounds. I started with two broken gearboxes, an over
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00831.html (8,970 bytes)

128. Oxerdrive Gearbox Oil (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 20:12:53 +0100
Just managed to get the gearbox together, no bits left over:-) What is the consensus on gearbox oil for the J type, Hypoid or non Hypoid oil? 80 or 90 weight. PS, Channel 4 Saterday, 13:30 to 14:00,
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00876.html (6,684 bytes)

129. Manifold Studs (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:19:16 +0100
How easy-hard is it to chainge the three manifold studs on the UK1500 manifold. Mine are so badly rusted there is hardly any thread left, hense the nuts come off, and the manifold keeps on blowing. A
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00882.html (7,481 bytes)

130. Re: Front Wing (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 20:34:10 +0100
You can cut an oil can on one side so that you have a big hole on one side, or you can go down to a photographic place and get a big developing dish. I have a 6L oil can type thig, one side has a sin
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00883.html (7,216 bytes)

131. Re: A New Noise : Fluttering : Exhaust (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:09:18 +0100
Rimmer, in there new catolog do a quite SS system. RL1598T, SS 4-2-1 manifold, going to a wide bore pipe, with expander box, then a single wide bour pipe into a streight through oval silencer with an
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00884.html (7,833 bytes)

132. Re: Bad Service (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:23:16 +0100
You have to take this into acount, I have spent 150 quid on spare parts for my overdrive box, 10 quid on the overdrive seal kit (from OD spairs). I got my parts from the places where Rimmer would hav
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00950.html (8,126 bytes)

133. It works, by jove! (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 22:26:52 +0100
Well, I single handedly managed to get my Overdrive to the car. A bit of a struggle, you have to play with the engin angle, then it just goes in fine. I filled it with oil with out the propshaft on I
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00951.html (6,780 bytes)

134. Re: car just shuts off (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:03:20 +0100
And of course, you because you loose the ignition timing pulses at the coil the electronic tack will show no revs. Hence the engin appering to drop to zero revs. One sugestion, why not get a new Luca
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00991.html (7,529 bytes)

135. Re: Manifold Studs (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 23:11:16 +0100
Stainless Steel rusts anyway, at thoes temperatures, anyway you will find them welding. I have in my back pocket three studs, same size and shape as the orriginals. 3 new brass nuts, and I am also go
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg00992.html (7,839 bytes)

136. Spit back on the road again (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 22:56:17 +0100
Just to let you know I have got the Spitfire on the road again. This time 6 gear ratios to choose from. 3rd overdrive is excelent for long corners going up hill from a 30 zone, 5000rpm, and flick it
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg01047.html (7,930 bytes)

137. Re: ignition light (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 23:34:24 +0100
2000rpm you should get 14 volts, and 15 is an absolute max, otherwise your battery will be overcharged and you will keep having to top up the batterys water.
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg01048.html (6,929 bytes)

138. Re: Found One!! (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 23:41:04 +0100
Any one in the UK who saw Deals on Wheels today (I did tell you last week) would have seen that chap sell a very good condition, but modified 1980 Spitfire 1500. He got 4000 pounds cash for it! Which
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg01109.html (8,285 bytes)

139. Re: carb [ex Re: alternator diagnosis] (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 22:45:46 +0100
A trick on SU's which I use to set my car is to lift the piston a little, if the RPM rises alot its too ritch, if it falls its's to week. When it rises initialy then settals down to just above idle i
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg01110.html (7,464 bytes)

140. Propshaft Balanceing At Home (score: 1)
Author: "James Carpenter" <james.carpenter@jccsystems.swinternet.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:25:34 +0100
After putting in my shortened propshaft I have found it to be out of balance, so much it causes a ratteling from the hood frame when it's down. Anyway propshaft balanceing companys are like hens teat
/html/spitfires/1999-06/msg01144.html (7,238 bytes)

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