- 61. RE: GT6 Carpet (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 08:14:24 -0500
- In what way does it stick out? To modern in appearance perhaps? Obviously not original (to someone who knows what the original looked like)? -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ ==
- /html/spitfires/2007-01/msg00016.html (6,966 bytes)
- 62. Re: TR:Spitfire - Electric Choke (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:08:27 -0500
- Shane, have you been receiving help on your questions? I'm afraid I don't know enough about your setup to offer any advice. Perhaps you could fill us in with more details. On the other hand, if you'r
- /html/spitfires/2007-01/msg00025.html (6,938 bytes)
- 63. Re: TR:Spitfire - Electric Choke / The whole story (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 21:58:40 -0500
- Hi, Shane. I'm posting this to the Spitfires public so that someone else might be able to check in and correct my errors! Here are some thoughts. My first question would be how long you've had the We
- /html/spitfires/2007-01/msg00026.html (8,868 bytes)
- 64. Re: mail? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:41:45 -0500
- You didn't send in enough money. :-) (See triumphs@autox.team.net.) -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ == This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register == http://www
- /html/spitfires/2007-01/msg00032.html (6,668 bytes)
- 65. Re: Changing throw-out bearing? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 08:47:23 -0500
- Is this for a Spitfire 1500? I honestly can't remember what the throwout bearing looks like! If it was the GT6 bearing pushed on to a brass sleeve, perhaps the same on earlier Spitfires(?), I'd say t
- /html/spitfires/2007-01/msg00045.html (6,485 bytes)
- 66. Re: [Spit] Oil Pressure switch problem (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 23:31:49 -0400
- Are you absolutely positively sure you hooked the wires back up the same way???? If you didn't screw the sender back into the block the same amount, the terminal would all be in different locations.
- /html/spitfires/2007-05/msg00005.html (9,142 bytes)
- 67. Re: [Spit] HS4 choke time. (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 18:28:13 -0400
- I have HS4s on my GT6 (installed by a PO), not a Spitfire, so I'm speaking only from general knowledge instead of experience. But I'd say 1/2 hr is way too long. It should need choke for only 5 to 10
- /html/spitfires/2007-05/msg00012.html (7,163 bytes)
- 68. [Spit] a not-so-good clutch sound (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:12:51 -0400
- Last summer after much delay and aggravation I finally got a working Spitfire tranny and OD from Quantum Mechanics. It's a long story which I won't go into now, but it's pertinent because it sets up
- /html/spitfires/2007-05/msg00058.html (7,820 bytes)
- 69. [Spit] clutch or thrust washer? (score: 1)
- Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 10:25:35 -0400 (EDT)
- Thanks to everyone who responded to my clutch question. It had not occurred to me that it could be a thrust washer problem. That sounds frightening but maybe easier to fix. So... Let me guess. This m
- /html/spitfires/2007-05/msg00064.html (6,761 bytes)
- 70. RE: [Spit] Oiling front trunnions (score: 1)
- Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 11:09:19 -0400 (EDT)
- It takes only an hour to pull the trunnions off? And, um, putting them back on takes how long? One does need a spring compressor for this, right? What sort did you use? That's four questions, isn't i
- /html/spitfires/2007-06/msg00027.html (8,000 bytes)
- 71. [Spit] clutch pin query (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 18:30:14 -0400
- I need some help! The Spitbits online catalogue shows a clutch pin and a sleeve. It has been a long time since I looked at these parts in person and I don't recall anything resembling a sleeve. Also
- /html/spitfires/2007-06/msg00031.html (7,317 bytes)
- 72. Re: [Spits] Welcome to the "Spitfires" mailing list (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:49:26 -0400
- Andrew Lindeman asked: Spitfire one to Coventry base, do you read me, over? Come in, Coventry, over. Spitfire two, do you copy, over? Spitfire two?? WHERE IS EVERYBODY????? Ah, just kidding. -- Jim M
- /html/spitfires/2007-06/msg00064.html (8,386 bytes)
- 73. [Spits] got the clutch working! (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:59:47 -0400
- Got my Spitfre 1500 clutch working again! Dropped a 7/16"x4" grade 8 bolt into the hole, ran a new Nyloc nut up the threads, took it for a short spin. Now the clutch feels just like it did when I fir
- /html/spitfires/2007-06/msg00065.html (7,106 bytes)
- 74. Re: [Spits] Moisture from a concrete floor? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:56:26 -0400
- Can't say one way or the other except from experience. My garage has a concrete floor and it is very dry. Any car I've kept there has stayed in nice condition. Then again, during a New England winter
- /html/spitfires/2007-06/msg00087.html (7,114 bytes)
- 75. Re: [Spits] 79 Spitfire with SU carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:06:37 -0400
- I'll give you credit for having the courage to show up on a Triumphs list with an MGA! :-) The fact that it runs with the choke pulled back on suggests that it has a bad air leak. Does it blow black
- /html/spitfires/2007-06/msg00093.html (8,725 bytes)
- 76. Re: [Spits] 79 Spitfire with SU carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:05:29 -0400
- Your puzzle still puzzles me. How do you mean the carbs are set correctly? I assume that means you've gotten it to idle well and the problem is with actual running, not idling. An air leak would norm
- /html/spitfires/2007-06/msg00094.html (8,166 bytes)
- 77. Re: [Spits] 79 Spitfire with SU carbs (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:05:09 -0400
- No. Nor would the point gap (i.e. dwell angle). My 1500 has been demogged and it has the 1976 head with 9.0:1 compression ratio, original carb. I've experimented with the timing to get it to accept m
- /html/spitfires/2007-06/msg00114.html (8,705 bytes)
- 78. Re: [Spits] Gas guage (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 17:28:53 -0400
- Doug Braun replied: Doug, I don't quite follow this logic. Unless a tank is completely void of all gas *and all gas fumes* an empty tank is as dangerous as one with fuel in it. The sender goes into t
- /html/spitfires/2007-07/msg00004.html (7,592 bytes)
- 79. Re: [Spits] OD shift lever for a 3 rail box (score: 1)
- Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:13:29 -0400 (EDT)
- You have the rear engine mounting bits, i.e. the plate that sits across the frame sections and the vertical H-bracket that holds up the back of the OD unit? The shift lever itself probably isn't much
- /html/spitfires/2007-07/msg00011.html (7,013 bytes)
- 80. Re: [Spits] what parts should I take? (score: 1)
- Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:31:27 -0400 (EDT)
- -- Jim Muller, been there, done that _______________________________________________ Spitfires mailing list Spitfires@autox.team.net http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires
- /html/spitfires/2007-08/msg00006.html (7,926 bytes)
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