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RE: Details: gas cap

To: Will <tr6@mac.com>
Subject: RE: Details: gas cap
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 13:44:56 -0400 (EDT)
On Sun, 16 Jun 2002, Will wrote:

> >Extracted for a Triumph Service notice:
> >It is additionally necessary to be certain that the hinge is lined up at
> >an approximate 450
> 
> 
> Hi Corey,
> 
> Thanks for sharing this info, just curious if you have a date for the 
> service bulletin?
> If it is after Feb 1975 it would explain why I haven't seen a UK car 
> with the filler cap this way, otherwise it is either because: The US 
> filler cap is a different design, or, Triumph weren't so interested 
> in the safety of UK drivers!

The US cap and the UK cap are different. I have a PI '73 TR6 (CR1871UO)
and it had the UK style cap.
 
> I had seen this US brochure and wondered why they had photographed a 
> car with a 'wonky' filler cap, at least I know better now.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> William Davies
> 1975 TR6 PI
> CR6157-O

regards,
rml
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