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41. RE: Winterizing the TR6 ... distilled wisdom please (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:48:59 -0500; I would suggest a bit clutch activity is good, helps keep it from freezing. Can be done just with the starter. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ == This list supported in part by; /html/triumphs/2005-11/msg00225.html (9,622 bytes)
42. More good service (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:21:31 -0500; My Spitfire has been making ticky-thumpy noises from the rear for years, decades actually. I thought maybe it was getting worse, and in a fit of worry over the possibility of a U-joint coming apart a; /html/triumphs/2005-11/msg00496.html (7,571 bytes)
43. Re: GT6 Oil drain plug (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:35:22 -0500; Nope. As others have said, that's not the original plug. Three decades ago when I was driving Fiats, I discovered that Fiat used an Allen head oil drain plug, 12mm. So I bought one from the local Sna; /html/triumphs/2005-11/msg00616.html (8,483 bytes)
44. RE: Oil pressure issue (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:25:07 -0500; The GT6 in question is a Mk3, right? Did they change the tach drive for the Mk3? On my GT6+ the tach is mechanical. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ == This list supported in pa; /html/triumphs/2005-11/msg00636.html (7,214 bytes)
45. RE: Oil pressure issue (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:27:47 -0500; Randall's point, I believe, is that irregularly timed electrical pulses can cause an electic tach to misbehave. Floating points or badly out of spec dwell could cause this, as could loose wiring or g; /html/triumphs/2005-11/msg00640.html (7,753 bytes)
46. Re: GT6-3 Diff Don't Drop (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 00:51:15 -0500; You have a swing-axle rear, not the IRS, right? What all else have you removed? The thing is, those studs on the diff don't hold the diff up. They hold the spring down. The diff is held at the front; /html/triumphs/2005-11/msg00714.html (7,217 bytes)
47. Re: List Down? (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 17:12:13 -0400; My Delete key works just fine. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ == This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register == http://www.vtr.org; /html/triumphs/2005-10/msg00222.html (6,579 bytes)
48. Re: Show of hands (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:57:42 -0400; I drove the GT6 down to Blue Hills Reservastion for a day of hiking. Coming back Rt128 just before serios rush hour set in was adventure. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ == Thi; /html/triumphs/2005-10/msg00467.html (8,229 bytes)
49. Re: How long run if car not charging at all? (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:31:38 -0400; I would think that starting the car is a pretty big demand though for a short time. Given good weather and daylight, the number of days you can drive on one battery is probably limited by how many ti; /html/triumphs/2005-10/msg00571.html (8,959 bytes)
50. Re: Spitfire carb woes.... (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:14:33 -0400; What, pray tell, is wrong with it??? What year is it? Details like this might be useful to anyone attempting to offer advice... :-) -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ == This list; /html/triumphs/2005-10/msg00660.html (6,988 bytes)
51. Re: Transmission check plug -- what size? (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 18:27:39 -0400; Well, today I spent an hour or so grinding on a 1" wrench obtained for $3 from a used tool store near my house, just so's I could swap the solenoid on my J-type OD. I guess I must jes't be a numbskul; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00093.html (9,175 bytes)
52. Is it okay to... (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 18:30:29 -0400; ...use an electic screwdriver on an LBC, I wonder? Of course, in the old days we used to joke about electric screwdrivers and metric Crescent wrenches and such. But if I used a real electric screwdri; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00094.html (6,864 bytes)
53. TR4 spotted (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:38:20 -0400; ... on Rt 117 eastbound in Weston, MA on labor Day afternoon. Okay, it wasn't really spotted, it was solid black and looking very nice. Was it one of you, by chance? We were that (_) far away from us; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00182.html (6,606 bytes)
54. Re: high milage TR3's? (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:08:05 -0400; It's not a TR3 but my Spitfire now has 81,000 miles. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00186.html (6,610 bytes)
55. Re: Ain't technology wonderful? (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:02:04 -0400; I remember being shocked the first time I put $7 in the Porsche 912. It seemed like a fortune. Of course, this was around 1973-4. Last week ago I fell a bit shy of $60 filling the Caravan. -- Jim Mul; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00517.html (7,083 bytes)
56. RE: Gearbox oil change. (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:20:34 -0400; Well, you could just flip the car over and just fill it via the drain plug. It's just a suggestion... -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00552.html (8,159 bytes)
57. Re: Auto Paints (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:39:22 -0400; I don't know paints but I recognize the name Emron, which I remember spelled as Imron. It was, perhaps still is, used on high-end bicycles. It needed to be baked to achieve its supposedly great prope; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00567.html (7,599 bytes)
58. Re: Auto Paints (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:37:30 -0400; I think so, if I've guaged the situation correctly. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00835.html (7,322 bytes)
59. Re: GT6 wheels (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:37:30 -0400; Ted Schumacher sold me a set of Cosmic Mk2 from a Europa. But you know, I've forgotten what size they are, and I'm on vacation about 300 miles from home so I can't go check. Are they really 14"? I'm; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg00836.html (8,479 bytes)
60. Re: TR6 Clutch Survey (car in neutral at lights) (score: 1): Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>; Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 16:57:26 -0400; More likely, he was expecting to run the yellow right behind you. (And he assumed that of course you'd be running it.) Around here the law must be written such that red lights don't apply to the last; /html/triumphs/2005-09/msg01020.html (7,318 bytes)

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