Quite frankly... I'm a bit ashamed of all this tool talk.
My x2b drove the her '77 Spit (original owner back in '77)
for 14 years and 142K miles as a year round daily driver.
We never carried tools...and it never left us on the side of the
road. EVER!
So too was the story of my 1980. The only time I didn't get
home from a trip (in the '80 back in '82), was when I rolled it to avoid
a 'head on' with an old farm truck barreling around a corner
over the line.
These days I've yet to carry any tools at all... other than
extra coolant, oil, a can of fix-a-flat (I don't bother carrying a jack)
and a flat tip screw driver to play with the carbs occasionally.
So... I guess that makes me a fool?
...or do I simply trust my babies, knowing they're paying me
back for the quality of attention they receive? :-)
Paul Tegler ptegler@gouldfo.com www.teglerizer.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "d t gebhard" <kimkell@decaturnet.com>
To: "Michael Hargreave Mawson" <OC@46thFoot.com>; <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: Spitfire 1500 tools
This should be the LAST word on this
subject....Does anyone think that maybe we could
carry a *spare Spitfire* in the boot,just in case
the original breaks down!!!!!!!
Dave Gebhard
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 2:22 AM
Subject: Re: Spitfire 1500 tools
In article
<3.0.1.32.20010225143600.008797e0@pop.xs4all.nl>,
Eric
Kieboom <ekieboom@xs4all.nl> writes
>
>At 08:54 25-2-2001 +0000, Michael Hargreave Mawson
wrote:
>
>>The rest of the kit that's in there
>>at the moment is as follows:
>>[...]
>>Restoration Guide
>>[...]
>>pair of carburettor rebuild kits
>
>And you had something to say about me carrying a
set of feeler gauges?
Though it be madness, yet there's method in't! (I
bet I've misquoted
that.)
The restoration guide is in the boot simply to have
it to hand when I'm
working on her. All those pictures can be very
handy. The carb
rebuild kits are there because I haven't got around
to doing them yet -
and they *desperately* need doing. My idle speed
at the moment ranges
from 1800 rpm to a dead stall. With the
accelerator flat to the floor,
she bounces like a kangaroo with dysentery,
although she goes like a
rocket with slightly-less-aggressive acceleration.
>
>If you think it's necessary to carry around a
restoration guide and carb
>rebuild kits, perhaps you should also stuff a
spare head gasket in the
>boot. A friend of mine actually did a roadside
head gasket change on his
>Mk3 while on holiday in England. He's very proud
of that stunt and brings
>it up whenever he can.
I'm not surprised he's proud of it. How on earth
did he manage to skim
the head before reassembly? A Universal Mill
attached to the cigar
lighter? <g>
ATB
Mike
--
Michael Hargreave Mawson, author of "Eyewitness in
the Crimea,"
to be published by Greenhill Books on 28th March,
2001:
http://www.greenhillbooks.com/booksheets/eyewitness
_in_the_crimea.html
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