- 161. Re: [TR] GT6: Pilot Bearing / Thrust Collar (score: 1)
- Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 17:17:31 -0400 (EDT)
- Martin Secrest asked, re a GT6 clutch: First, I wonder if they changed the clutch arrangement on the GT6 between '70 and '73. My '80 clutch fork is quite different from my '70 GT6 clutch. On the Spit
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00082.html (8,497 bytes)
- 162. Re: [TR] Spitfire SU carbs fuel level (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:09:57 -0400
- This sounds like some of what I went through trying to dial in the SUs that a PO mounted on my GT6. I got some advice from this list and some from lots of experimenting. First, the fuel levels in the
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00112.html (8,844 bytes)
- 163. Re: [TR] Passing on a plea for help (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 22:30:14 -0400
- Wow. I don't have a '74 TR6 so I sure couldn't follow all that description. But I'll throw out one idea I heard long, long ago. Does that dizzy have dual points? If so, I'd guess the following. They
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00114.html (9,185 bytes)
- 164. Re: [TR] TR4 Cutting Out Under Load (score: 1)
- Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:27:52 -0400 (EDT)
- Sorry, I don't recall the details of the original post. Did you not recently install an electronic dizzy? One way that might screw up your carbs is if a vacuum line got neglected and is now sucking a
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00171.html (8,738 bytes)
- 165. Re: [TR] Raise the flag for another Triimph victory! (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:43:37 -0400
- Well, just awesome! Waytago, Phil! -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ -- Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.8.17/850 - Release Date: 6/15/2007 11:31 AM == This list supported
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00216.html (7,124 bytes)
- 166. [TR] Spifire/GT6 repair chronicles (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:59:18 -0400
- Today was a good day. Pulled the interior out of the Spitfire. As I had suspected, the clutch pin is, like, gone, non-existent, vanished completely. Which explains why the clutch was so wonky. The go
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00217.html (7,991 bytes)
- 167. Re: [TR] TR4 - Sudden Oil Pressure Drop (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:41:32 -0400
- Perhaps your carb float bowls or fule pump are leaking gas into the manifold, thinning the oil? Does the dipstick smell like gas? Does the oil level seem higher than it was before? -- Jim Muller jimm
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00296.html (7,158 bytes)
- 168. [TR] speaking of nice TRs and a nice day (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:20:17 -0400
- I was out walking today during a break from work, noticed a nice blue TR6 in the lot of the building next to mine. It was just sitting there, top-down, resting and enjoying the sunshine. The bonnet w
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00299.html (6,758 bytes)
- 169. RE: [TR] dimness improved? (score: 1)
- Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:45:27 -0400 (EDT)
- I wuz gonna' ask, does not the chemistry of a lead-acid battery dictate 13.8v? So to charge it one must provide a voltage slightly higher, f'rinstance 14v? -- Jim Muller GT6 Spitfire Dreams == This l
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00325.html (7,418 bytes)
- 170. Re: [TR] British Invasion query and this weekend's outing (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 22:13:33 -0400
- Well, Terry (and everyone else), I wanted to let you know that today I took a vacation day from the office and we drove the GT6 up I93 to camp at Lafayette Place in Franconia Notch. We even paid the
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00444.html (8,963 bytes)
- 171. Re: [TR] Gas in oil (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:44:04 -0400
- One cause, possibly the most common cause today, so I've been told, is that newer gas formulations eat away at the inside of the older rubber fule lines. Pieces then flake away and get caught in the
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00458.html (7,870 bytes)
- 172. Re: [TR] I'm stumped! (score: 1)
- Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:23:03 -0400 (EDT)
- I am struck by how diverse the answers have been. (I've never seen a float valve stuck closed, but then, I've never used Grosse Jets.) Each of the answers could offer the real solution (excapt that s
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00486.html (8,170 bytes)
- 173. Re: [TR] temp gauge (score: 1)
- Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:12:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Or a burned out candle on your altar to Lucas. -- Jim Muller == This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register == http://www.vtr.org
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00515.html (6,827 bytes)
- 174. Re: [TR] temp gauge (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:40:48 -0400
- -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ -- Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.9.8/869 - Release Date: 6/25/2007 5:32 PM == This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Regist
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00525.html (7,377 bytes)
- 175. Re: [TR] SU questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:24:54 -0400
- The dashpot oil doesn't really affect operation under load. It acts to slow down the piston reaction when you first open the throttle, but the piston then moves into place fairly quickly. In other wo
- /html/triumphs/2007-06/msg00626.html (8,146 bytes)
- 176. Re: [TR] Alternator (score: 1)
- Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:03:21 -0400 (EDT)
- Crabby observed: 100 rpm? You must (thump) have some (thump) really big (thump) flywheel in (thump) that motor (thump) for it (thump) to idle that (thump) slowly! [Surely you mean 1000?] I would thin
- /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00053.html (7,075 bytes)
- 177. Re: [TR] standard (pun) engine stand ok? (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 18:04:22 -0400
- What are you doing messing with /N30Woc anyway? Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick to anger. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ -- Version: 7.5.
- /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00071.html (6,931 bytes)
- 178. Re: [TR] test (score: 1)
- Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:01:55 -0400 (EDT)
- Yeah, me too. But why does every note now come in with the receiver's name and a line stuck to the bottom? Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com _______________________________________________ Triumphs mailin
- /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00114.html (7,140 bytes)
- 179. Re: [TR] broke brakes (score: 1)
- Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 23:47:22 -0400
- Experience has shown that driving to VTR is one of the best ways to make something on your Triumph break. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ -- Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database:
- /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00150.html (6,902 bytes)
- 180. Re: [TR] broke brakes (score: 1)
- Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 17:03:25 -0400 (EDT)
- Yes, well, you see, there should be no cause-and-effect thing here that makes a VTR trip any different from any other trip. Statistically they should all be identical. The fact that VTR offers so muc
- /html/triumphs/2007-07/msg00192.html (7,350 bytes)
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