<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000'>Hi John<div><br></div><div>...one more thing. You can reorient your spin-on oil filer adapter. The filter doesn't need to be perfectly vertical. Next time you have the filter off, back off the big bolt in the center of the spin-on adapter and rotate the housing slightly clockwise so that the filter will clear the slave cylinder when you reinstall it, then re-tigthen the bolt.</div><div><br></div><div>CAVEAT: There is a chance the spin-on adapter will weep oil after you do this because you've disturbed the seal. They're like dogs....sleeping ones are generally best left alone. If your car is weeping engine oil from a bunch of other places, then this may not concern you.</div><div><br></div><div>Colin<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>6pack-request@autox.team.net<br><b>To: </b>6pack@autox.team.net<br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, April 18, 2016 2:00:01 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>6pack Digest, Vol 20, Issue 15<br><br>Send 6pack mailing list submissions to<br> 6pack@autox.team.net<br><br>To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br> http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/6pack<br>or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br> 6pack-request@autox.team.net<br><br>You can reach the person managing the list at<br> 6pack-owner@autox.team.net<br><br>When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br>than "Re: Contents of 6pack digest..."<br><br><br>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. The saga wears on (John Summers)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Message: 1<br>Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 01:00:20 +0000 (UTC)<br>From: John Summers <rivers2hills@yahoo.com><br>To: "6pack@autox.team.net" <6pack@autox.team.net><br>Subject: [6pack] The saga wears on<br>Message-ID:<br> <1612599777.2346047.1460941220416.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com><br>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br><br>Guys, this is copy pasted from my LONG post on the Triumphs list so grab a cup of coffee.And Ted Schumaker, thanks for the ad, if I can afford it I'll be buying your kit, but right now3 days until my wife Social Security disability check hits the bank there literally is ZERO dollarsin our bank account. ?Peanut butter three times a day isn't so bad:)) ?Anyway, here is my new story:<br>Actually, under the car I was daydreaming about writing Jay Lenno a plea for help; I've done worseand not been shot once.<br>I felt well enough today (though I'm paying dearly now) to crawl under the TR 6 and tinkerwith the slave cylinder,,again. ?At this point I don't know whether to shoot the car, or myself!!You've seen me here whining before, right? ?Well, here I go again. ?I'm sorry. ?Tried to get the car?in gear yet again and again and again! ?To no avail. ?The bear facts are I bled, re-bled I don't knowhow many times today. ?Pumped the clutch with anywhere from good pressure/resistance to no resistance.Looked in the resivoir numerous times, filled the resivoir several times,,,,,,pumped the lever that the slave activatesMANY times and did see air bubbles and then did not see air bubbles and even thought I had defeatedthe beast,,,but didn't. ?In my final try of course started the car in neutral and tried to put the car in gear.Nothing doing!! Every gear, the same thing. ?I might as well have been pushing the shifter in hardenedconcrete. Bright idea!! ?Just for fun put it in gear BEFORE you start it. ?V<br> ery funny!!! ?In gear, well, I didn't want to drive it off the jack and jack stands. ?This is where I gave up. ?From 2 PM to 6:30 with a glimmer of hope. ?No hope.It wouldn't he such a big deal if we were rolling in money. ?We have been there before and I have throwna ton of money at this car,,,,,,just to make it do the right things mechanically. ?The body is worse thanit was when I bought it in '98.Answer me this: ?The way I installed the slave and have driven the car like this is ?with ?the ?rod facing forward.Now, diagrams I have seen really don't indicate which way the darned thing points. ?I DO have to remove the oil filter to access thenut to bleed it. ?I have a "spin on" adapter installed and to get any access to either top or bottom nut, the filter has to come off.Is it possible I have the darned thing backwards? ?I don't see how that could be because the rod and lever match up perfectlybut I've done sillier things. ?I know this is long, but I've GOT to get this car on the r<br> oad. ?Maybe I mentioned it in another postbut our '98 Maxima suffered a fender bender,,,,,,,on 2/20. ?We've been in a rental car ever since. State Farm sent me to Hertzand the Maxima is at a national chain called Gerber. ?I didn't know what to do and was relying on them to get the job done.Gerber declared it a total because it would cost way more to repair than it was worth. ?The problem is - that is our only working carand in the last six weeks or so I have taken my oldest son to the emergency room something like 7 times. ?He has asthma?for one thing and three disc's bulging which give him horrible head aches to the point of causing him to vomit because ofthe pain. ?He also has NO cartilage in his left knee. ?My wife is way ahead of him and has gone through this for 30 years. The last 16years on total disability. ?Her head hurts so bad her only respite is unconsciousness and except for appointments with the psychiatrist,her pain doctor of 20 years and her G.P. she is in bed. ?So th<br> e TR is our last resort. Yes it is difficult for her to get in and out ofbut that is the only thing we have. ?And that's only about half the story. ?AGAIN,I apologize for the length of this post and my?stupidity but I've GOT to get this car on the road,,,,,,,,plus, dang it, the weather here in North Florida has been gorgeous and?I wanna do som top down driving. ?At 67 am I:(( ?Thanks guys.<br>-------------- next part --------------<br>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<br>URL: <http://autox.team.net/pipermail/6pack/attachments/20160418/a793ad92/attachment-0001.html><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>Subject: Digest Footer<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>6pack mailing list<br>6pack@autox.team.net<br>http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/6pack<br><br><br>------------------------------<br><br>End of 6pack Digest, Vol 20, Issue 15<br>*************************************<br></div><br></div></div></body></html>