- 41. re: TR6, front suspension rebuild questions (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 95 14:14:35 CDT
- I put the TRF handling springs in my '72 and it raised it to a ridiculous height. Waited for a year hoping they'd settle but they never did. I could put my hand (the wide way) between the top of tire
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00190.html (7,024 bytes)
- 42. FW: defining a gearhead (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Fri, 14 Jul 95 13:12:42 CDT
- forwarded message: -- Gary Schneider, Nicolet Instrument Technologies phone: 608-276-6172, Fax: 608-273-5061, Internet: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00204.html (9,296 bytes)
- 43. Re: Chicago Historics, Minis (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 09:03:12 CDT
- RE: Vintage Historics at Road America Sure! The Vintage Triumphs of Wisconsin and MGMGMG (I forget the acronym but you get the drift) groups are having a lunchtime picnic Sat. 22nd at the British cor
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00217.html (8,023 bytes)
- 44. Re: TR6 oil press indication (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 11:10:39 CDT
- William Brown's TR6 query: I agree with Andy Mace's response: The gauge is such a simple mechanism it'd be difficult to booger it, and the gauge and switch come from the same place on the block on my
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00218.html (7,625 bytes)
- 45. Re: Communications (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 09:59:43 CDT
- I think cheap CB radios would actually work the best, but the best won't be very good if point and tail are in different valleys. Higher frequency radios are even more line-of-sight limited, at 27MHz
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00263.html (7,500 bytes)
- 46. Re: Oil Light Shutoff (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 09:29:23 CDT
- I've also always seen a second or two delay in oil pressure rise at start - its a mechanical system and takes some time to pressurize the pipes even with a spinon filter conversion. Although a well-
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00265.html (8,304 bytes)
- 47. Re: sound files (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 17:36:37 CDT
- Jeremy DuBois replied to the recorded sound thread: Maybe the idea isn't as weird as I thought. Jeremy, if you felt like making a recording and sending it over, I'd be happy to listen and run it by s
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00278.html (7,574 bytes)
- 48. Re: Oil Light Shutoff (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 10:35:21 CDT
- Rich wrote:>with reference to the external rocker feed, if the top end attaches to where the I just put one on my TR6 this year. The bottom plumbs into the passage near the oil filter where the oil p
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00304.html (7,970 bytes)
- 49. Re: external oiler (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 15:20:00 CDT
- Bill, you wrote:>I'm thinking about installing one of these. It was a 20 minute job tops on my TR6. The oil line is flexible with preinstalled fittings on each end. It just bolts in. I always use som
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00316.html (7,578 bytes)
- 50. Re: Oil feed jazz and bearing blues (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Mon, 24 Jul 95 10:11:02 CDT
- That sounds like good news for several of the worried correspondents. Phil or anyone have experience of engines running a long life despite start-up knock? I would expect the knock to indicate a litt
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00342.html (8,631 bytes)
- 51. Re: Brake Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 95 14:28:04 CDT
- I learned from experts on this list that the PDWA - Pressure Differential Warning Actuator(?) - senses a lack of pressure in either brake line and closes off the one of low pressure, to prevent loss
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00375.html (7,668 bytes)
- 52. Re: TR6 clutch problems (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 95 14:13:11 CDT
- Inside the bell housing, the clutch throw fork is secured to the pivot shaft by a wimpy, inadequate taper pin. This slowly distorts and makes clutch action marginal. This is a common problem in TR6s
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00377.html (7,656 bytes)
- 53. Re: TR 6 won't turnover (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Wed, 26 Jul 95 13:21:05 CDT
- If the battery in the TR can't hold a charge at all, that's normal. Jumper cables can't handle the 100-200 amps that the starter wants. Even the heaviest cables don't have the contact area where you
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00401.html (7,990 bytes)
- 54. centrifugal advance springs, jumper cables (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 12:07:22 CDT
- Just back from the VTR National so I'm a few days behind the flow here... Carl wrote: One spring seems stretched By chance I was just reviewing some old 6-Tech articles by Len Renkenberger, one of wh
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00474.html (8,258 bytes)
- 55. Re: VTR Natls - long (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 95 14:36:48 CDT
- Couldn't agree more, I've been to lots of meets but none so meticulously planned and executed. We went to Rockford on Thursday, only an hour from home. Found Sheri at the registration desk, got an ab
- /html/triumphs/1995-07/msg00484.html (10,153 bytes)
- 56. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 09:14:12 -0600
- Jack Pepper wrote:>The pistons are protruding out of the cylinders Hope there was still a bit of fluid coating the inside of the calipers so the inner bore isn't rusted. A penetrant around the piston
- /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00045.html (9,118 bytes)
- 57. Re: electrical problems ?? (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 13:26:07 -0600
- "Tension" is ancient-British-speak for voltage. Hi-tension = hi voltage, the ignition coil secondary and spark plug wires. Low tension is technically everything else, all the 6/12 volt stuff. But it
- /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00078.html (7,551 bytes)
- 58. Re: TR3 Front Brake Calipers - The Final Chapter (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 15:42:48 -0600
- Re: Jack Pepper's good news: Must be all the good karma radiated from your moral supporters. The calipers could tell it was futile to resist. :-) I love the idea of not firing unguided missiles too!
- /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00104.html (8,120 bytes)
- 59. Re: Worn TR6 driveshaft sliding joints (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 08:58:00 -0600
- I'd be interested in any other opinions too. I replaced mine last year because I could feel maybe a degree or two of play and they made a noticeable clunk. I was worried about the shock loads hammeri
- /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00129.html (7,701 bytes)
- 60. Re: british roadsters (score: 1)
- Author: gschneid@nicmad.nicolet.com (Gary Schneider)
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 09:06:20 -0600
- Joe wrote: one I haven't seen any mention that BMW/Rover would resurrect the TR badge, but they do talk vaguely about a desire for new lower-cost roadsters beyond the V8-MGB. Something else may have
- /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00130.html (7,315 bytes)
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