- 81. Re: [Spits] Wiring updates and so forth (score: 1)
- Author: Nick Moseley <nmoseley@dccnet.com>
- Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:48:01 -0700
- ...and more bleeding. If you are absolutely sure there is no air in neither the lines nor the master, then it may be time to check the rubber brake lines, to make sure they have not collapsed interna
- /html/spitfires/2009-08/msg00004.html (7,336 bytes)
- 82. Re: [Spits] Foggy windows (score: 1)
- Author: Nick Moseley <nmoseley@dccnet.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:08:03 -0700
- If you drive a lot in the rain, you might want to get one of the factory hardtops. They have side-opening windows, so that you can open them for ventilation but not get streams of water in. As well,
- /html/spitfires/2009-08/msg00023.html (7,610 bytes)
- 83. Re: [Spits] (late) Spitfire sighting: Top Gear (score: 1)
- Author: Nick Moseley <nmoseley@dccnet.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:39:39 -0700
- Jim, there was a least one purple Spit. Would it have been called Damson? At any rate, I have a bonnet that had since been repainted BRG, but the original purple blazed out in pride from beneath the
- /html/spitfires/2009-09/msg00016.html (6,841 bytes)
- 84. Re: [Spits] Transmission installation (score: 1)
- Author: Nick Moseley <nmoseley@dccnet.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:50:33 -0700
- I second that experience. (In my experience, trying to center it by eye almost never works.) The last time I did this, the alignment tool that had been purchased since the time before, had gone on wa
- /html/spitfires/2009-10/msg00006.html (8,003 bytes)
- 85. Re: [Spits] Ah, the scent of optimism! Ebay listing (score: 1)
- Author: Nick Moseley <nmoseley@dccnet.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:29:06 -0700
- It looks like someone is having fun with a plating kit, perhaps after recent discussions on another list. $300 seems, excessive, but there is provision for making an offer! Nick Moseley, Metro Vancou
- /html/spitfires/2009-10/msg00013.html (8,552 bytes)
- 86. Re: [Spits] Hard top hoist (score: 1)
- Author: Nick Moseley <nmoseley@dccnet.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:17:11 -0800
- I am using two of these, to keep two bonnets up and out of the way. <http://www.princessauto.com/farm/storage/storage/8093650-50-lb-dual-pulley They've been modified by using aircraft cable to replac
- /html/spitfires/2009-11/msg00028.html (7,509 bytes)
- 87. Re: [Spits] Triumph World Availability (USA) (score: 1)
- Author: nick Moseley <nmoseley@dccnet.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:02:09 -0700
- Doug, I'm not in the USA, but close, and I subscribe. TW now appears on the shelves of Chapters in Canada regularly, but that often wasn't the case. It may well be that some people buy the mag when i
- /html/spitfires/2010-03/msg00040.html (7,135 bytes)
- 88. Re: [Spits] Stuck Rear Trunion Bolt (score: 1)
- Author: nick Moseley <nmoseley@dccnet.com>
- Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 18:37:27 -0700
- Matt, we've been there etc. There is a metal bushing surrounding that bolt, within the trunnion. Usually the bushing rusts to the bolt, and it's a bear to get out. If a few cycles of heat and cold do
- /html/spitfires/2010-04/msg00008.html (8,034 bytes)
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