>
> - Make sure the knockoffs are very tight
>
I assume that the threads that the knockoffs screw onto are "handed", I
ask this because last year I saw a TR4 which had been "restored", and when
I looked closely at it I noticed that the front left hand knockoff was
labelled "right", and the right hand one labelled "left". The only way I
could imagine this happening is that some careless soul managed to rebuild
the front suspension and then re-fit it with the king pins on the wrong
sides.
I hope whoever purchased it got a good engineer to inspect it first......
and on another note entirely....
>
> > 1. You climb into the driver's seat of a car you haven't driven
> > for nearly a week, turn the key, and nothing happens. You:
> >
> > A. Call AAA and ask that the car be towed directly to the dealer
> > where you pay to have the charging system fully inspected. The
> > dealer ends up billing you $470 for the inspection and $110 for
> > a new battery, and you have to spend an additional $75 at a detail
> > shop to get the grease stains out of the floor mats.
> >
> > B. Call AAA and have them jump-start the car, at which point
> > you buy a new battery for $95 and pay another $30 to have it
> > installed.
> >
> > C. Jump-start the car from whatever other vehicle in your
> > stable is currently running and drive around at high speed
> > to charge the battery quickly.
>
> D. If in a hurry jump into one of the other cars & take it. if not in a
>hurry,
> check batt. fluid levels, clean batt posts, jump start if voltage low, if
>not,
> check batt to starter motor connections. Watch the voltmeter while driving
>to
> see if charging circut is working correctly.
>
E. In the same way that the Christian church uses the cross to ward of the
devil, this is where the starting handle comes into its own.
Graham
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Graham Glen graham@irving.demon.co.uk +44 81 871 0228
".. and it always was possible to measure the distance between so-called
management and the so-called creative by the time it took for a memo to go
in one direction and a half-brick to come back in the other."
Dennis Potter
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