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RE: Help needed in saving Spitfire 1500 crank

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Subject: RE: Help needed in saving Spitfire 1500 crank
From: "James Gambony" <BritBits@tiu.net>
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 19:55:45 -0600
Joe,

There's one part of the Triumph that you're NOT supposed to oil to keep it
from rotting away... that's the clutch.  That's the reason I'd like to keep
the rear seal... well, sealed.


Cheers,

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Curry [mailto:spitlist@gte.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 1999 3:07 PM
> To: britbits@tiu.net
> Cc: spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Help needed in saving Spitfire 1500 crank
>
>
>
>
> britbits@tiu.net wrote:
> >
> > Listers,
> >
> > I have a pair of 1500 cranks that have wear/pitting on the main
> seal surface.  The local machine shops don't have the abilility
> to splatter weld them and can't find a Speedy sleeve (? is that
> right?) for the Spitfire.
> >
> > Anyone found a solution for this?
>
>
>
> Yeah Jim, it's called plastic underneath the car!
>
> Joe
>
>
> --
> "If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort."
>  -- Dave Weinbaum in National Enquirer
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