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301. RE: Oil Filter Quality (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 14:01:23 -0700; Thanks for the interesting anecdote that does support the choice of the Motorcraft filter, which according to Knize is the Purolator Pure One filter in a Purolator Premium Plus case. I tend to feel; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00340.html (9,168 bytes)
302. RE: carb (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:09:15 -0700; If you had this carburetor on your Tiger, the electric pump would fill the bowel before you start the engine. I normally wait a few seconds before doing a cold start just to let the bowls fill up. T; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00366.html (7,485 bytes)
303. RE: carb (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 14:16:31 -0700; Steve L. and Steve F., Sorry, Steve L., for the little jab about Carter carbs, but I thought it was about time those of use using Holleys took a swing. ;-) On a (slightly) more serious note, don't yo; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00369.html (8,770 bytes)
304. RE: Carb (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:53:58 -0700; Hark!! What's that I hear beckoning from the garage? A Tiger owner never has too much time on their hands! ;-) Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! SB-800 and SB-1172 Need to be delt with first. Then we can; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00372.html (7,803 bytes)
305. RE: Strange tire problem (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 19:23:55 -0700; Can you remember which decade you purchased them?? ;-); /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00378.html (7,381 bytes)
306. RE: Strange tire problem (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:51:55 -0700; OK Rob, I guess we can rule out tires as the cause. However, I still think we can blame it on the tire. I actually have some experience making tires; spent almost a year in Akron working at Fireston; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00380.html (8,962 bytes)
307. RE: Strange tire problem (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 22:57:54 -0700; I meant we can "rule out OLD tires as the cause".; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00381.html (7,637 bytes)
308. RE: Strange tire problem (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 08:38:46 -0700; It sounds like the tire, or at least part of it, may have rotated some on the rim and sort of "bunched up" and the excess made the bulge. On the other hand, this is hard to believe since the bead se; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00388.html (9,560 bytes)
309. RE: Strange tire problem (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 09:01:33 -0700; Just a little corporate background: "In 1990, Michelin formed a subsidiary known as the Uniroyal-Goodrich Tire Co. Inc., a Delaware Corporation, through which it acquired the assets and liabilities; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00389.html (8,616 bytes)
310. RE: Strange tire problem (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:07:48 -0700; On reflection, I think you are right. The story, one of many told to me while I was at Firestone, was in this case about an undercure defect in a Goodyear tire. (They say your memory is the second t; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00393.html (12,379 bytes)
311. RE: Strange tire problem (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:07:45 -0700; Each engineer was teamed with a Japanese Bridgestone counterpart, or "Big Brother", brought over from Japan. They were nominally equals, but in reality they were there to pick brains and instill the; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00394.html (8,139 bytes)
312. RE: oil leak answers (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 09:55:17 -0700; Thanks for the link. This adapter looks like the one Dale Akuzewski use on my engine. I don't think there is anything better for providing clearance for headers, plus it is infinitely adjustable in; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00412.html (7,653 bytes)
313. RE: Oil Pressure Fluctuations (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:44:12 -0700; This is a real brain teaser. I have never heard of these symptoms. Since oil is incompressible is even harder to account for the fluctuations. Could the pressure line be lying against the exhaust ma; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00418.html (6,874 bytes)
314. RE: oil leak answers (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 21:44:11 -0700; No one seems to have replied to your question about oil pressure. The 60 psi cold sounds about right for a stock oil pump, although I haven't had a stock oil pump in my Tiger since 1976, so my memor; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00419.html (8,241 bytes)
315. FW: Synthetic Oil (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 09:16:35 -0700; Michael, Larry has posted a good summary on the question of synthetic oil. As for additives like Prolong, Duralub, etc., you can fool some of the people some of the time, but . . . Check out these li; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00425.html (9,215 bytes)
316. RE: Synthetic Oil (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 08:52:05 -0700; The label for this oil says "Castrol Syntec The Active Lubricant SAE 5W-50 Full Synthetic Motor Oil". It is priced accordingly. Castrol also sells a synthetic "blend" under the name "Syntec". It is; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00454.html (9,075 bytes)
317. RE: FW: Synthetic Oil (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 09:05:47 -0700; Dear Dr. Moonstone, I certainly agree with your overriding theme that you can't trust anyone, especially the U.S. Government. There is no shortage of examples in this regard. You have combined a bunc; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00456.html (7,892 bytes)
318. RE: [Fwd: FW: Synthetic Oil] (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 17:59:11 -0700; STP will increase the oil viscosity and thereby reduce oil consumption. If you have a 1960 Volvo 544, it will also slowly dissolve the timing gear and leave you stranded on Hwy 1 in the middle of th; /html/tigers/2001-08/msg00470.html (7,289 bytes)
319. RE: Clutch Problems (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 07:51:10 -0700; Too bad about the clutch, but whatever the problems is, it can't be helped by adjusting the threaded pushrod in the hydraulic slave cylinder. Just like the way, for example, disk brakes work, a hydr; /html/tigers/2001-07/msg00007.html (8,180 bytes)
320. RE: Re:Clutch Problems (score: 1): Author: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>; Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 00:14:10 -0700; Well, it looks like I've got (K)egg on my face this time. ;-( It never occurred to me that anyone could or would adjust the rod long enough to bottom out in the cylinder. I guess we can just chalk t; /html/tigers/2001-07/msg00011.html (7,371 bytes)

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