- 1. Outdoor Covers (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 23:35:33 +0000
- Hi folks, I'm new to this group, so I don't know what the readership is like, but let me put it to the test! I've just bought myself a solid, servicable spitfire but have no garage (I could afford on
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- 2. msg00026.html (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 15:27:56 +0000
- Morning folks, What a storm we had last night, got to the spit this morning to find a swimming pool on the rear floor (The hood isn't anywhere neer as watertight as the tonoeu sp?) Anybody got any ti
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- 3. Re: TR 250 wanted (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 5 Sep 1995 22:21:23 +0000 "Re: TR 250 wanted" (Sep 5, 2:15pm)
- Wasn't the TR250 a normally asperated version of the TR5, with less than the 150bhp of the 5?. Chris. 1977 - Spitfire 1500 with Overdrive. -- -- -- "What is the use ", asked Alice, "Of a book with no
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- 4. msg00068.html (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 15:08:43 +0000
- I would go with the original colour... The excellent "Spitfire Guide to Originality" I think written by Nigel Thorley, gives all the colour codes, together with the official name and a colour sample.
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- 5. No Hazzard Lights (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 15:22:25 +0000
- Please Help, With the recent discussion about Randell Jesup's indicators, I thought I would throw my problem into the pot... The indicators on my spit work fine, but the hazzard lights don't; The Hay
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- 6. Re: No Hazzard Lights (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 16:32:26 +0000
- Sorry Bruce, I haven't taken tha dash apart yet, so it could be just the connector to the switch, I just wondered if there was another common cause of failure. Thanks for your experience though, Chri
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- 7. Lights and Leaks (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 11 Sep 1995 15:11:01 +0000
- Good Afternoon folks, Having spent this weekend in the Yorkshire dales with the hood down (yes the sun was shining), I was impressed with the handling of the spit. around the country lanes, especiall
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- 8. Re: replacing all four Spit shocks (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 08:05:00 +0000
- Such a device is available from the T.S.S.C. here in the U.K. - I think it costs about 50 pounds sterling (I may have the price wrong). Chris. 1977 - Spitfire 1500 with Overdrive. -- -- -- "What is t
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- 9. Uni-Syn for beginners? (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 08:10:06 +0000
- There has been a thread about the relative merits of uni-syn and colourtune recently... I don't know what either of them do...or even what they are (if there is a difference). Can anybody spare a few
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- 10. Has this Group been shut down ? (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 08:04:25 +0000
- Help! I haven't had a post from this group for about a week. has the group shut down, or have I been removed from the list or ... Any offers? Chris. 1977 - Spitfire 1500 with Overdrive. -- -- -- "Wha
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- 11. msg00420.html (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 21 Sep 1995 13:36:09 +0000
- offered advice. Chris. 1977 - Spitfire 1500 with Overdrive. -- -- -- "What is the use ", asked Alice, "Of a book with no pictures?" --
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- 12. Re: Spitfire Wiring (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 10:10:00 +0000
- Hi David, I don't know if this will be of any use but...Moss UK are currently advertising complete wiring harnesses, also Rimmers (UK again - but they are on the net. http://taz.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rory/
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- 13. Re: TR-6 as an everyday car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 15:08:34 +0000 "Re: TR-6 as an everyday car?" (Sep 28, 6:50am)
- I second that thought...I use my spit as an everyday driver - you spot the problems as they occur, and not after nine months, just before your 500 mile outing. Drive and enjoy... Chris. 1977 - Spitfi
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- 14. Re: Rimmer Bros at Triumphest (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 1995 18:06:33 +0000 "Rimmer Bros at Triumphest" (Sep 27, 5:41pm)
- Try their on-line catalogue: http://taz.ecs.soton.ac.uk/rory/rimmer/rimmer.htm Chris. 1977 - Spitfire 1500 O/D. -- -- -- "What is the use ", asked Alice, "Of a book with no pictures?" --
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- 15. Gearbox oil top-up (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:40:47 +0000 "Re: Overdrive problem" (Sep 29, 1:10pm)
- I attempted to top up the gearbox oil on my 77 spit yesterday (car up on jacks), but gave up due to the almost impossible amount of access to the filler nut (why isn't it on the other side, where acc
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- 16. Re: exhausting weekend (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:59:07 +0000 "Re: exhausting weekend" (Sep 29, 12:25pm)
- Morning folks, I've been following this thread with some interest, since I have had a blown gasket (manifold to down-pipe) for a while, and the noise has been geting worse. I finally plucked up the c
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- 17. Oil Sump on 1500 spit (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 08:29:47 +0000
- Good Morning, I took my sump off the car last night...I needed to do an oil change anyway, and the sump gasket has been leaking for a while...It came off very easily, and cleaned up to a lovely condi
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- 18. Thanks for sump/oil pump advice (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 15:14:56 +0000
- A big thank-you to all who gave advice on the sump/oil filter. Everything is back together now, as of four hours ago, and the oil preasure warning light has decided that it was being under-utilised,
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- 19. Re: Thanks for sump/oil pump advice (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 16:54:04 +0000 "Re: Thanks for sump/oil pump advice" (Oct 4, 4:26pm)
- All this support is great, I salute you all, You're all saying approx. the same thing - I should have primed the thing before fitting...somebody tell that to the B.L. repair manual writers. How would
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- 20. Re: Starter whirrs (score: 1)
- Author: "Chris Boston" <cboston@zeu.tt.umist.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 08:01:21 +0000 "Starter whirrs" (Oct 7, 3:21pm)
- Well Ted, A non-starting engine sounds like a good place to start. The first thing to check would be the lead from your coil to your distributer. If this is faulty or disconnected, your simptoms woul
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