Hey Paul,
Did you ever post details on whatever whiz-bang solution you came up with
for your poorly idling Spitfire based on a question from a six-year-old lad
who was watching you work? Posting the tease for your amazing revelation
without follow-through is more shameful IMHO than discussion about
assembling a toolkit for cars, some close to four decades old, that owners
don't want to risk leaving along the side of the road if a component fails
some time while driving!
Best wishes,
Jeff in San Diego
'67 RHD Spitfire Mk3 aka "Mrs. Jones"
'68 LHD Spitfire Mk3 frame-off resto project
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ptegler" <ptegler@gouldfo.com>
To: <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 7:16 AM
Subject: Ashamed of the 'tools' was 1500 tools
>
> 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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