- 1. re: spitfire colors (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack Kagy" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 20:57:00 -0400
- I have some pix of my '69, which was dark blue. I doubt that the list will handle attachments, but if you want, let me know and I can email some to you. Jack Kagy
- /html/spitfires/2004-09/msg00060.html (6,234 bytes)
- 2. Clutch Problems? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack Kagy" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 20:57:19 -0400
- Bleeding might help. Probably need to replace/rebuild the master and/or slave. Rebuild is not difficult. Parts are cheap from catalogs. I did the MC one year and when that didn't help a whole lot, I
- /html/spitfires/2004-08/msg00045.html (6,805 bytes)
- 3. swaybar attchmnt (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack Kagy" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:34:00 -0500
- As I was putting my '77 1500 on blocks for the winter, I noticed that the bracket intended to fasten the R side of the front swaybar to the frame is broken...not just the weld, but the bracket itself
- /html/spitfires/2004-01/msg00037.html (6,770 bytes)
- 4. installing door waist seals. (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:20:28 -0400
- What a coincidence...I'm in the process of doing the same thing on my spitfire. Spent a couple of hours doing the outside seal. Started on the inside seal and decided I had had enough for one day. I
- /html/spitfires/2003-07/msg00104.html (7,537 bytes)
- 5. near misses (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:33:34 -0400
- I've come to expect oncoming traffic to turn L in front of me in my Spitfire. They nearly always do. Not so when I'm in my Ram. Don't know whether the smaller size makes them think I'm farther down t
- /html/spitfires/2003-06/msg00191.html (6,862 bytes)
- 6. bleedin' brakes (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 22:19:34 -0400
- I have put new shoes on the rear brakes on my '77 spitfire and am ready to get the drums, wheels back on. I had the brake system apart for the right rear. The owner's manual portion of the Haynes man
- /html/spitfires/2003-05/msg00204.html (6,785 bytes)
- 7. bleed nipples (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 20:51:04 -0400
- Got the brake system reassembled this afternoon, rolled the Spitfire out into the sun to bleed the system and a problem cropped up. I found the bleed nipple on the RR impossible to turn. Part of the
- /html/spitfires/2003-04/msg00190.html (7,467 bytes)
- 8. odd happenings (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 15:44:10 -0500
- James, Had a similar experience late last summer. Driving on a city street, 35 mph, heard a clunk and the car got swervy. Turned out to be a broken trunnion bolt on the RR. It also produced even more
- /html/spitfires/2003-03/msg00150.html (7,239 bytes)
- 9. rear brake lines (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 11:18:18 -0500
- I got motivated today to brave some freezing temps and start reassembling the brake lines on my '78 Spitfire. I discovered that the Haynes manual doesn't show the tube that extends between the flexib
- /html/spitfires/2003-01/msg00023.html (7,142 bytes)
- 10. shifter rarity (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:22:36 -0500
- I don't know what the thread about rarity is about. I can report I was happy to get a shift lever for my 1500 last spring. I can't remember exactly from whom I got it...either Spitbits or British Mas
- /html/spitfires/2003-01/msg00198.html (6,846 bytes)
- 11. replacing top (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 07:53:01 -0500
- My wife an I replaced the top on our '78 a couple of years ago. We got it too tight. It was before I was aware of this list and the advice it offers. Consequently, many of the snaps on the body pulle
- /html/spitfires/2003-01/msg00274.html (7,042 bytes)
- 12. brake line (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 20:41:55 -0500
- I'm having trouble getting a new line to replace the one on the R rear wheel. I broke it off while pressing the trunnion bushing in a few weeks ago. Learned a lesson, remove the brake line before mes
- /html/spitfires/2002-12/msg00001.html (7,167 bytes)
- 13. vllbcc (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 12:20:32 -0500
- I soloed and did a couple of cross countries years ago. Never got around to finishing my license but I still love airplanes. It's great that local fly-ins usually also include a vintage car show. It
- /html/spitfires/2002-12/msg00158.html (7,127 bytes)
- 14. denatured alcohol (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 20:13:45 -0500
- Try a pharmacy JAK /// spitfires@autox.team.net mailing list /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.net/archive
- /html/spitfires/2002-12/msg00181.html (6,420 bytes)
- 15. trunnion bushing (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 22:13:21 -0400
- Hoping to pick someone's brain who has replaced the trunnion bushings. I'm about to tackle that. I've got the parts and have sort of "dry fit" them on the kitchen table. I am concerned about exactly
- /html/spitfires/2002-10/msg00313.html (7,654 bytes)
- 16. trunnion bolts (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 20:17:08 -0500
- Finally got the trunnion bolt replaced on my '78 Spitfire. Fortunately, that part of the project is portable right now so I could work on it on the living room floor while watching the Browns. Many t
- /html/spitfires/2002-10/msg00346.html (7,507 bytes)
- 17. saggy rear (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 20:18:16 -0400
- A couple of days ago, on my way to work, I drove across a little bump w/ my '78 1500. There was a 'clunk,' the rear of the body seemed to drop a little and the car seemed to want to swerve L a couple
- /html/spitfires/2002-09/msg00125.html (7,843 bytes)
- 18. new discovery (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 21:57:51 -0400
- I had written to the list last week about a problem w/ my 78 Spitfire. The rear end of the body had dropped and the rear wheels tilted in more than usual and the car wanted to swerve a little. A coup
- /html/spitfires/2002-09/msg00205.html (7,476 bytes)
- 19. overheat (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 20:41:59 -0400
- Wife and I went out for a short drive in the '78 Spitfire last night to get close enough to the edge of town to see the sunset. Takes just a couple of minutes. As we were heading along some back road
- /html/spitfires/2002-08/msg00147.html (7,547 bytes)
- 20. forsale (score: 1)
- Author: "Jack" <jkagy@bpsom.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:15:35 -0400
- Just letting you all know of a Spitfire for sale. It sits in the lot of a small, front yard used car lot, located on State Route 53 in Ottawa County, OH, between Fremont and Port Clinton. It's a late
- /html/spitfires/2002-08/msg00246.html (6,953 bytes)
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