SOLers,
A few weeks back I posted the pen-ultimate message about
the sick spitfire. This should close the book. It has been running
great for 2.5 weeks so I feel confident enough to say that it is fixed.
If you remember, it stopped suddenly last november on a cool
moist night while driving on the motorway. I sent the Allison back to
the company, they sent me a new optical unit saying the old one was
"iffie". I reinstalled it on a cold January day, and the car still
didn't run well at all. So I was convinced that something else was
still wrong. I replaced the fuel filter, coil, plugs, airfilter, did
valves, timming, mixture... It was taylor!randy who seemed to know
what exactly was wrong. I hadn't been precise enough when aligning
the allison trigger. Once I reinstalled it - and cleaned out the
choke and Gas-recirc system also with some more great advice from
taylor!randy, the car ran great. So now I am mucho pleased to have my
british metal running again. The following SOL people were also
*extremely* helpful in sending me advice along the way:
C R E D I T S
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muller@Alliant.COM
tobin@neagp.enet.dec.com
rgb@hal.com
XamenEk!rkg@uunet.UU.NET
DWILSON@OREGON.BITNET
woodruff@engin.umich.edu
twakeman@apple.com
George_Malits@vos.stratus.com
enu14@seq1.keele.ac.uk
xgg2356@dcmdc.dla.mil
frankel@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu
pwv@tc.fluke.com
Dean_Zywicki@NIHDCRT.BITNET
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Obligatory non-brit car content:
No one has ever mentioned the new Mercury Capri 2+2. Seems to
me it is a sharp car, if it had something decent under the hood and a
good suspension, it could be sort of a US Elan (gasp).
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Now to get the hard top off and duct tape the leaky hood.
Then deal with those rear hub bearings and U-joints.
Cheerio, Kristian
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