- 1. Re: Ebay.... silliness... (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 07:45:30 -0700
- Rule number 1: Know what it's worth (or what you can buy it from a vendor) before you go bidding. Same applies to swap meets and pawn shops! (These are $2.99 each at Spitbits) Oh well - hope the buye
- /html/spitfires/2002-10/msg00193.html (8,382 bytes)
- 2. Re: Where did everyone go ? (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:34:30 -0700
- Driving or preparing to drive! Or preparing not to drive for that matter. I've been spendig my vacation polishing and waxing in preparation for the NW All Triumph Drive In that starts today. I did a
- /html/spitfires/2002-08/msg00088.html (8,709 bytes)
- 3. Alternators and miscellany (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 08:44:29 -0700
- Greetings all, and condolences John Hobson on the gasket blowout! Hope all is rectified soon. Yesterday I completed the popular GM alternator swap. I was having some performance and general electrica
- /html/spitfires/2002-08/msg00227.html (7,731 bytes)
- 4. Re: Dahhh-stupid== long== (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 08:26:48 -0700
- Same thing - no, similar - yes. Last summer I had the starter rebuilt and found it easier to put in and take out without the oil pressure sending unit in place. My electric fue pump is wire through t
- /html/spitfires/2002-06/msg00017.html (8,695 bytes)
- 5. Transmission Advice please (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 07:47:42 -0700
- Hi listers! My 11 year old daughter and I had a great drive from the Seattle area and back yesterday. I had never cruised at 70 mph for extended periods before. And boy is my forehead sunburned. Anyw
- /html/spitfires/2002-06/msg00423.html (7,949 bytes)
- 6. Re: The Etiquette of Waving (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 06:08:03 -0700
- They seem to have a hard time gettin the top down as well! :~) Ken day!!! /// spitfires@autox.team.net mailing list /// or try http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool /// Archives at http://www.team.ne
- /html/spitfires/2002-06/msg00500.html (8,640 bytes)
- 7. The gearbox is out (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 18:46:08 -0700
- Well, on what turned out to be way more job than I expected - the gearbox is out of the car! Nothing was as easy as it was supposed to be (isn't that always how it goes!) Richard Gosling, I had your
- /html/spitfires/2002-06/msg00554.html (7,403 bytes)
- 8. Automatic transmission (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John at Twangdemonium" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 10:20:07 -0800
- Seems like a lot of chest pounding going on here! First - I love the stick in the Spitfire and can't imagine a sports car being any other way! But that is my choice. As for my other vehicles, two are
- /html/spitfires/2002-02/msg00206.html (9,032 bytes)
- 9. New Family Member (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 11:58:23 -0800
- It's true, this Triumph disease is incidious! Saturday a friend and I hauled home a new member to my meager stable - a 1965 Mk II Spitfire. The car had been abandoned at a house owned by a Baptist ch
- /html/spitfires/2001-12/msg00087.html (7,256 bytes)
- 10. Alternator warning light - intermittant (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John at Twangdemonium" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 22:13:29 -0700
- First the good news - my wife and I just drove 440 miles in two days on a tour of central Washington wineries with the Tyee Triumph Club of Seattle - by far our longest trip yet (and 32 mpg!) The bad
- /html/spitfires/2001-10/msg00024.html (8,078 bytes)
- 11. Re: Alternator warning light - intermittant (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John at Twangdemonium" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:09:50 -0700
- Just an update on the warning light - The place where I had the rebuild don is on the way home from work so I swung in and they tested the alternator on the car. It's not charging they said (by now t
- /html/spitfires/2001-10/msg00047.html (7,431 bytes)
- 12. Intermittant alternator light, parts cars, and the list (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John at Twangdemonium" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 22:18:41 -0700
- First to report - I picked the alternator up from the shop today - broken ground inside the unit. I probably could have found that but since the work was under warranty and the shop convenient I let
- /html/spitfires/2001-10/msg00079.html (7,646 bytes)
- 13. Re: sunday drive (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John at Twangdemonium" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 21:34:31 -0700
- Two weeks ago just prior to our clubs winery tour, I was driving home from work with the top up (I almost always drive top down!) Every time I stopped or started I heard a clunking noise from the rea
- /html/spitfires/2001-10/msg00212.html (7,566 bytes)
- 14. Re: Fuel economy in a Spit. (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John at Twangdemonium" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:08:38 -0700
- There has been so much E-mail floating around about fuel economy. I think that it would be interesting to do a poll of listers fuel economy. If enough of you want to respond, I'll compile the data Pl
- /html/spitfires/2001-09/msg00059.html (8,838 bytes)
- 15. Spitfire fuel economy update (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John at Twangdemonium" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:28:56 -0700
- OK, I'm not as ambitious as Joe Curry and the Spit-list but so far I have 9 entries in my little fuel economy survey. Based on what listers have told me, averages in miles/US gallon are 26.3 city, 31
- /html/spitfires/2001-09/msg00088.html (7,462 bytes)
- 16. Fuel Economy numbers (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John at Twangdemonium" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 21:35:13 -0700
- I continue to collect data with 15 entries now. Numbers are: 24.5 City, 31.0 Hi-way, 26.2 Combined. Of course when you add in Joe Curry's Tiny Tim with 1.87 mpg, the combined figures fall to 22.4! I'
- /html/spitfires/2001-09/msg00108.html (7,094 bytes)
- 17. Spitfire fuel economy (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John at Twangdemonium" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:45:03 -0700
- Ok - I've played around some with listers mileage figures. I had 18 entries, so not an exhaustive study but interesting. I decided to lump city and combined figures into the same category. I like thi
- /html/spitfires/2001-09/msg00196.html (7,984 bytes)
- 18. Stalling problems continued (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 11:44:25 -0700
- Please, I have nowhere else to turn (that doesn't charge.) My stalling problems have continued. Driving along fine and suddenly NOTHING! If I take my foot off of the gas, the car usually recovers and
- /html/spitfires/2001-08/msg00206.html (7,478 bytes)
- 19. Re: Stalling problems continued (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 13:20:51 -0700
- When I put the new line in I ran it as far from the engine as possible. Also, it was acting up this morning when temperatures where in the 50s. My understanding (would could be wrong) was the electri
- /html/spitfires/2001-08/msg00208.html (7,878 bytes)
- 20. Re: Horns and things (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken St.John at Twangdemonium" <stjohnkj@twangdemonium.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2001 14:06:45 -0700
- I'm not sure which horn goes on which side in the UK. My low horn is on the left. Better yet, the horns have the letters "L" and "H" on them in raised letters - I believe it in the mouth of the horn
- /html/spitfires/2001-07/msg00278.html (7,404 bytes)
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