Craig,
Congrats on the starting of the car. What a great feeling!
Jane
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> From: Craig & Karen Bentley <mmbent@email.msn.com>
> To: Triumphs <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Fire in the hole!!!
> Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 7:19 PM
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>
> HELLOOO LISTERES, Well yesterdays glum mood turned into shear delight
> tonight. The engine that I've just rebuilt has fired for the first time
in
> close to fifteen years. THANK YOU POWER BRITISH for not assuming anything
> and pointing me in the right direction. My rebuilt starter motor was
indeed
> the culprit for the engine refusing to turn yesterday. I had already
figured
> that I was going to have to tear down the engine again to find a spun
> bearing or something equally tragic. I think its mildly amusing that a
> rebuilt starter that started the car when I took it apart quit while a
> starter motor that has sat in a junkyard for fifteen years and looks
> terribly nasty spun the engine with no undue stress! Of course it is
funny
> now but yesterday............ Anyway the engine sounds great idles fairly
> smoothly. I still have some tuning to do but at last I'll be able to ask
> this list what to do if my thing a ma jig leaks this or what do you do if
> the flay rod is askew from the treadle or what not. I could go on forever
> but I'll stop now. Just suffice it to say that at this moment I'm feeling
> pretty good. So good in fact I think I'll go and enjoy some of my
favorite
> malted beverage. Regards Craig Bentley
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