Yes. I've had good luck using the chant "Oh mighty deity formerly known as Prince of Darkness..." --berry Berry Kercheval :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
The TR6 article in the latest Thoroughbred and Classic Cars certainly implies that TR4/4a/6 doors ought to be interchangable, as it's one of the things they mention as having been carried over to kee
Who knows? Who cares? The Jury says "no". What I care about is whether converting my US-spec TR6 to PI would be a good idea in California. --berry Berry Kercheval :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
very Please note: though Whitworth thread profiles are "similar", the shank sizes and thread pitches are different. You cannot interchange Whitworth and SAE hardware. SAE tools won't fit Whitworth h
I like "How to Repair Your Foreign Car" by Dick O'Kane; a lovely little book that alas is long out of print, and a bit dated (he talks about getting LBC parts at the *DEALER* fer petes sake. What's
They're called "fuel line pressure regulators" and you can get them from any mail-order racing supply house like Pegasus, or even from J.C. Whitney. Check the Monster List for phone numbers and addr
HA! You think you are joking, but my '51 Bentley has a positive chassis lubrication system. An oil tank and pump sits on the firewall. the first time each morning you start the car, you are supposed
I had a similar problem on my '72 TR6. I fixed it by cleaning the gas tank out and replacing EVERY piece of rubber fuel line in the car. The lines were perished and swollen, and would only pass enou
Well, it's a game, don't you know, between the designers trying to get, say the starter on the car, and you trying to get it off. What? It's fallen on your nose? You've won! Oh, I say, jolly good sh
Fan belt hell, how about the crank pulley? One dark morning in the middle of the night I was leaving work after a LONG session of raytracing for a, um, demanding client and missed a kerb. The result
Sounds good, but I'd recommend something like LPS-2; WD-40 has a tendency to dry to a gummy film. --berry Berry Kercheval :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
Liners are usually interference fits into the block and take mongo force to dissassemble. I wouldn't worry about it. The liners in a Bentley 4-1/4 litre engine take a 2.5 tonne press to insert, feri
Oops. I sent a message saying don't worry; I was thinking about the liners in my Bentey engine, which are full length sleeves, not wet liners at all. Um. Never mind. Ignore this silly person. --berr
Ore for even more Deja Vu, look at a Datsun 1600 or 2000 roadster. Take an MGB, replace all the BSF fasteners and with metric Phillips-head cap screws.... Well, not quite but it's uncanny. --berry B
My wife, reading over my shoulder, says "That's what spouses are for..." but me, I have an old bulletproof VT-100 terminal in the garage wired into my home Unix box... --berry Berry Kercheval :: Xer
I've got that! It's wonderful. The only bad part is the constant advice to get parts from the local MG or Triumph or Jaguar dealer....well, I guess there are still Jag dealers, but... --berry "wants
all TRs, too. THat's why every time I touch a brake line I change it to racing AN-style fittings... --berry Berry Kercheval :: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center