- 241. RE: Do overbored 260's really overheat? Seeking verified (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@UCSD.Edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:46:28 -0800
- What??? Where did you get this information?? That means, for example, that the cranks and heads aren't interchangeable. This assertion is absurd on the face of it so you better have some damned good
- /html/tigers/2002-02/msg00237.html (8,724 bytes)
- 242. RE: Do overbored 260's really overheat? Seeking verified (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@UCSD.Edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:22:24 -0800
- I'm not sure, but it sounds like you have at least admitted that the bore centers on the 260 and 289 (and 221, 225, 302, and 351W, for that matter) are the same. If the 260 was different, you couldn
- /html/tigers/2002-02/msg00240.html (9,007 bytes)
- 243. RE: Do overbored 260's really overheat? Seeking verified (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@UCSD.Edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 15:36:14 -0800
- So it would overheat?? --Original Message-- From: owner-tigers@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-tigers@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Ray Johnson Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 3:00 PM To: tigers@autox.tea
- /html/tigers/2002-02/msg00241.html (8,971 bytes)
- 244. RE: Doane's overbored 260's (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 22:26:54 -0800
- For those interested in this part of the Tiger's history, here's a brief (well, maybe not so brief) summary of Friedman's book, Chapter 2, "The Sunbeam Tiger". Friedman was the official Shelby Ameri
- /html/tigers/2002-02/msg00269.html (12,883 bytes)
- 245. RE: Doane's overbored 260's (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 20:12:09 -0800
- I am sure that Doane pulled every trick he thought he could get away with. I just happen to think that running 289 cu. in. wasn't one of them; it's too easy to check. He was probably running every b
- /html/tigers/2002-02/msg00305.html (10,300 bytes)
- 246. RE: Grommets? (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:03:56 -0800
- Yes. I believe replacements are available through CAT and Sunbeam Bob
- /html/tigers/2002-01/msg00340.html (6,240 bytes)
- 247. RE: Cover me! (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 11:46:17 -0800
- Not a problem. Sunbeam Specialties sells a water pump for the Tiger that has the same impeller as the old HiPo water pump. This means it works good a low rpms, but doesn't cavitate at high rpms. You
- /html/tigers/2002-01/msg00355.html (6,678 bytes)
- 248. RE: Grounding strap (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 15:40:32 -0800
- One end of this strap bolts to the bell housing on the driver's side and the other to the frame. Bob
- /html/tigers/2001-12/msg00212.html (6,437 bytes)
- 249. RE: Transmission Manual (Not) (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 21:11:36 -0800
- Bad idea - very bad idea. On the first page of the book it states "Copyright 1993 All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form." Copy and distribute Norm's
- /html/tigers/2001-12/msg00260.html (8,301 bytes)
- 250. RE: What else !!!!!!!!! (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 09:59:25 -0800
- The casting numbers for the 5-bolt HiPo blocks are C3OE-B and C4OE-B. The blocks originally came with an orange paint mark on the rear face (in front of the flywheel). Of course, it must have the be
- /html/tigers/2001-12/msg00367.html (7,304 bytes)
- 251. RE: Aluminum valve covers, was: What else !!!!!!!!! (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 11:03:52 -0800
- Thanks for your message. It provides an important data point on the removablility "envelope". Do you have stock rocker arms? I'm pretty sure roller rockers would not permit removal of your valve cov
- /html/tigers/2001-12/msg00379.html (7,623 bytes)
- 252. RE: Same ol' problem (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 17:48:42 -0800
- I can imagine your frustration. Here is an excerpt from your original posting: "I have also checked for an internal vacuum leak by blocking off either the PCV hole or the oil filler neck on the valv
- /html/tigers/2001-12/msg00385.html (8,435 bytes)
- 253. RE: Aluminum valve covers, was: What else !!!!!!!!! (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:39:56 -0800
- This summer I finally replaced the Crane Gold Race roller rockers I first purchased in 1979. I had them rebuilt in 1986, but this time they were too far gone - at least in my opinion, I didn't ask C
- /html/tigers/2001-12/msg00405.html (8,814 bytes)
- 254. RE: low rise manifold (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 09:25:42 -0800
- The LAT-3 option 4-barrel carburetor kit included the Tiger Lo-Rise aluminum manifold, which may be what is being offered on e-bay. Bob Hmmmm, I just seached on sunbeam tiger and there it was. Down
- /html/tigers/2001-11/msg00077.html (7,294 bytes)
- 255. RE: Dead #4 cylinder (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 11:51:56 -0800
- I know very well how you feel, been there a time or two myself. What occurs to me as the only possibility, and one that you didn't mention explicitly checking, is the #4 spark plug. Put in a new plu
- /html/tigers/2001-11/msg00095.html (7,172 bytes)
- 256. RE: J.C. Whitney Product Question.. (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 20:31:03 -0800
- Eric, Steve, et Listers, The J. C. Whitney Website has a history of the company. Looks to me like Steve was right. http://www.jcwhitney.com/aboutus.jhtml?BQ=jcw2 Bob
- /html/tigers/2001-11/msg00135.html (7,527 bytes)
- 257. RE: In phase ? (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 07:02:35 -0800
- The steering U-joints are "out of phase" on purpose to make the rotation smoother. If the joints are lined up, a hard spot occurs at certain angles. The following link describes what I'm talking abo
- /html/tigers/2001-11/msg00208.html (7,597 bytes)
- 258. RE: hardtop Dimensions (exact) (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 08:29:09 -0700
- What are the chances that a hardtop picked at random would actually fit without a lot of hassle? ;-) "Best way is to drive your Tiger, install the top and drive back home." James Barrett Tiger II 35
- /html/tigers/2001-10/msg00033.html (7,235 bytes)
- 259. RE: 260 (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:06:26 -0700
- I guess this must be a slow List day. ;-) All Windsor motors through '65 have the 5-bolt bell housing pattern, including the '64 and '65 289's, which as Duncan says, are externally identical to the
- /html/tigers/2001-10/msg00038.html (7,068 bytes)
- 260. RE: 260 (score: 1)
- Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:13:27 -0700
- Chris Williams wins the trivia quiz of the day by pointing out that Ford discontinued the 5-bolt bell housing in favor of the 6-bolt pattern in August, 1965.
- /html/tigers/2001-10/msg00046.html (6,988 bytes)
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