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1. Triumph Spares Day - UK Sunday 6th Feb (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:42:53 -0000
I've had an off-list request from one of you who is planning to come to the UK for this event. Judging by what I read of last year's event on these lists, those of you who did visit were truly amaze
/html/spitfires/2005-01/msg00028.html (8,935 bytes)

2. Re: Head colour, aux oil (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 15:43:16 +0100
I have two questions now that the machine shop has returned the head from my '76 TR6: 1) what color should I paint the head. Seems to me gloss black. Hole in one! 2) I will add the auxiliary oil feed
/html/spitfires/2004-08/msg00143.html (8,675 bytes)

3. Re: Head colour, aux oil (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 13:28:33 +0100
I agree it's important to ensure all your 'oles are properly lined up - and finding out they aren't can be an expensive lesson. That said, my earlier post (perhaps mistakenly) assumed all the proper
/html/spitfires/2004-08/msg00181.html (7,922 bytes)

4. Re: D and J type overdrive ratios (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 10:33:22 +0100
Also - if anyone knows what the GT6 came with regarding diff ratios I'd be most pleased to know - as far as I can work out standard came with 3.27 and cars with OD came with 3.89? Correct - but to mu
/html/spitfires/2004-04/msg00027.html (7,238 bytes)

5. Re: D and J type overdrive ratios (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2004 23:16:23 +0100
ISTR the law has changed - and the M1 was a lot less crowded in those days as well :) As far as your Spitfire is concerned, I don't think you'll have too much trouble pulling 4,500 in O/D 4th. Just m
/html/spitfires/2004-04/msg00031.html (7,889 bytes)

6. Pix of our cars (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 11:52:32 +0100
There can surely be few members of these lists who don't enjoy seeing images of our cars? I'm always pleased to see pix sent to me - but one very special request as it relates to me - and maybe other
/html/spitfires/2004-04/msg00115.html (7,465 bytes)

7. Re: Spitfire gearbox oil (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 09:45:06 +0100
A delightful term - inaccessium! I guess it was all in a days work at The Standard Motor Comedy - but then, clearly the habit has been refined to new and giddy peaks? On my modern Eurobox the factory
/html/spitfires/2004-04/msg00132.html (7,195 bytes)

8. Re: Stuff to do in London (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 16:04:50 -0000
Apart from the previous posts on your request of places to see and go - you should also consider the Brooklands Museum close to London. Certainly visit Coventry Cathedral and if you want to position
/html/spitfires/2004-03/msg00073.html (7,762 bytes)

9. Re: Tonneau covers (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 00:44:34 -0000
Were the studs on the dash panel in a standard place? Yes. Complete assemblies were pre-drilled in jigs I recently purchased a Tonneau cover which was advertised as original for Mk 1 or Mk 2 Spit. Ju
/html/spitfires/2004-03/msg00107.html (7,910 bytes)

10. Re: Tonneau covers (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:30:52 -0000
SNIP together Now you've let the cat out of the bag, Bill. Those odd eyelet positions was when the tonneau 'slipped' as it was being punched. Cheers, John -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Ch
/html/spitfires/2004-03/msg00110.html (7,605 bytes)

11. OIL LEAK Classic Car Activities - UK 2004 (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 00:17:29 -0000
At the risk of accusations of F.I. ........ All Profits / Surpluses generated by these events in 2004 will be apportioned between the two UK charities OIL LEAK will be supporting this year. This post
/html/spitfires/2004-02/msg00058.html (8,789 bytes)

12. Re: GT6 head (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 08:00:30 -0000
Dave Fain wrote: I am starting to clean up the ports on the head from my GT6 project car. I already knew that the engine was a mixed bag of parts because it has an early Plus block (KD53420E), one pi
/html/spitfires/2003-12/msg00023.html (9,265 bytes)

13. Re:L General running question (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 01:30:27 -0000
Sounds to me like it is. Certainly a new valve is one option but it's also likely those minute and hardly visible burrs of delrin on the ends of the needle valve fins are causing trouble disproportio
/html/spitfires/2003-12/msg00060.html (7,452 bytes)

14. UK Tour 2004 - absolutely NFI !!! (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:45:09 -0000
I've got the nomex on already in anticipation of flames about financial interest. Over the last two years, it's been a pleaure to see Jeff and Jan Zorn from LBcarco over in the UK with a large group
/html/spitfires/2003-11/msg00075.html (8,911 bytes)

15. Triumph World emblems (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:27:17 +0100
I've been having a clearout of the workshop and have sorted a lot of Triumph bits for my two Big Sixes, so nothing of relevance for US spec TR's - or anything else. Perhaps this ought to go on eBay b
/html/spitfires/2003-10/msg00018.html (7,268 bytes)

16. In case anyone's bored...? (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 00:58:37 -0000
Two weeks ago OIL LEAK Classic Car Activities (Jonmac's little 'just for fun' business) did its last UK Road Run of the year. It was a charity event and raised about #2000 (US$3000 approx) for Guide
/html/spitfires/2003-10/msg00176.html (6,908 bytes)

17. Re: Swing spring (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 23:52:14 +0100
I suppose it's all academic or semantics but .... The late Ray Henderson whose sad death was recently reported in several UK club mags, The Vintage Triumph and possibly even Triumph World - entirely
/html/spitfires/2003-09/msg00149.html (8,079 bytes)

18. Re: Body transportation during build (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 08:56:52 +0100
Hi, Andy In common with many other manufacturers, it depended on what was being done at different stages in the manufacturing process. Sometimes it was via the sills with large hard rubber pads to p
/html/spitfires/2003-09/msg00185.html (9,598 bytes)

19. Re: John Macartney - a message from his son (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 19:27:57 +0100
To all Friends in Dad's "Old Cars" email address book Dad is known to many of you as Jonmac. He tells me he has quite a lot of outstanding mail from you that he hasn't yet answered and this is a sour
/html/spitfires/2003-07/msg00203.html (9,720 bytes)

20. Re: Jonmac - a reply from himself (score: 1)
Author: "jonmac" <jonmac@ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:01:38 +0100
My dear FRIENDS I feel very humbled by the avalanche of emails I have received in the last 48 hours in response to the message posted by my son, Edward. I cannot even begin to express how I feel towa
/html/spitfires/2003-07/msg00228.html (9,052 bytes)


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