At 09:02 AM 11/27/98 -0800, Tom Strange wrote:
>Robb,
> Excellent comments. I am glad to see someone say this & I agree
completely.
>Take your time, make sure everything is clean & properly assembled & most
>everything will work.
I followed this advice when bringing my Spitfire back to life over the last
two years. And now, I have only one thing to ask:
"WHAT electrical problems???"
(OK, so the 'brake' telltale light doesn't work with the handbrake
occasionally. That's not a problem, just an eccentricity.) <vgb>
Atwell Haines
'79 Spitfire (Was going to install the hardtop this weekend, but tomorrow's
high temp will be in the 60s. Maybe later!!!)
Succasunna, NJ USA
>Tom Strange, Classic Autosports Ltd., Appleton, Wi., 920-733-5013
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>Robb Tones wrote:
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>> Just my 2-bits worth - after seeing all the complaints re electrical
>> problems in Spitfires I have these comments. When my son and I got our '71
>> GT-6 home, vertually none of the electrics worked. A day in the driveway
>> with a hand full of crimps and the voltmeter cured 90% of the problems. The
>> remainder were a case of carefully (using fine grit sandpaper) cleaning the
>> bullet connectors, lightly crimping the female portion to provide a tighter
>> connection or cleaning up very dirty gound connections.
>> None of this takes anything but careful workmanship ie you don't have to be
>> an electrical engineer to cure the problems.
>> In my 30 odd years of being in the mobile radio business I have seen all
>> manner of horror stories in the form of botched electrical systems. Most of
>> these were the result of the owner or sometimes a well meaning mechanic,
who
>> had done major surgery in order to overcome a minor bad connection in the
>> system.
>> I suggest that all of you who are having electrical system problems to back
>> off, take a good look at the overall system visually and then start at the
>> battery post connections and clean and reconnect every connection you can
>> find. I realize that to find all of them you need to tear into the interior
>> of the car but slow and easy will get you through it. Once you have the
>> bullet connector polished (male and female ends) cover them with a light
>> coating of silicon grease (or lacking that plain vasiline works) before
>> reconnecting them.
>> If you do these few minor tasks even a bit at a time I think that you will
>> find that Bro. Lucas was not so bad after all - even if he can't make a
>> computor leak oil like someone suggested a while back.
>> Just the observations from an old timer
>> John Tones (with son Robb)
>> 69 MK 3 / 71 GT-6 / 78 1500
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