Hi Ed:
Ouch !!!
I'm only 35. But it is the two door model with all the sporty bits added
on. It bears almost no resemblance to the 4 door lump. I find it very
useful for traffic jams. The TR drove me nuts with the clutching in
bumper-to-bumper traffic. This way I idle in air-conditioned comfort and
listen to classical and avoid my apoplectic fits of rage of a
year-or-two ago. Then the TR is for cruising on the lakeshore to the
countryside, or down to the yacht club. (haw haw says the pompous
bastard!!) No really, the wife would do something dreadful to me if I
sold the Regal; she really likes the car.
Mark Hooper
hooper@alex.com
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>From: Ed Woods[SMTP:fogbros@nb.net]
>Sent: Friday, June 12, 1998 7:56 AM
>To: Hooper, Mark
>Cc: Triumph Mailinglist
>Subject: Re: RE:Ammeter
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>Mark,
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>Sell the Buick. If you're not over the age of sixty and don't live in
>Florida, you shouldn't be driving one anyway.
>
>Ed Woods
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Hooper, Mark <Hooper@alex.com>
>To: 'triumphs@autox.team.net' <triumphs@autox.team.net>
>Date: Friday, June 12, 1998 12:28 AM
>Subject: RE:Ammeter
>
>
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>>I have an electrical bug in my 91 Buick Regal. It has a voltmeter.
>>Whenever I take off from a stop, or if I put on the brakes with the
>>car stopped and push the gas a little, the voltage drops to 10 volts.
>>All the fans and lights go dim. Thos problem is driving me mad. I have
>>consumed 3 alternators in 3 years and can't find it. If I had an
>>ammeter, like in my TR6, then I could determine whether the alternator
>>is failing and there is a huge charge draining out of the battery, or
>>if something was drawing enormous current. The ammeter is more useful
>>by far. As noted in another posting, the wiring is more complex and
>>requires more heavy-gauge wire work.
>>
>>On the Buick side, (sorry about this non-LBC question) has anybody
>>seen this one? I was sure that it was a connector failure occurring
>>whenever the motor twisting in the frame at acceleration, but the
>>damned thing has two top braces and barely quivers when under load. I
>>am now wondering if the torque-converter locking mechanism is acting
>>insane. This problem has been going on for years, so if this was a
>>faulty wire, the currents involved would have fried it long ago.
>>
>>Mark Hooper
>>hooper@alex.com
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