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RE: 2 Qs: fuel line and mystery nuts

To: tigers@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: 2 Qs: fuel line and mystery nuts
From: Theo Smit <TSmit@novatel.ca>
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 09:25:18 -0600

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Laifman [SMTP:laifman@flash.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:16 AM
> To:   rflynn
> Cc:   tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject:      Re: 2 Qs: fuel line and mystery nuts
> 
> rflynn wrote:
> 
> >   Should I be concerned about it resting
> >   against the water hose?  The last time I took the car out, I
> >   could swear I vapor locked when the engine hit 240+F and I didn't
> >   lose any coolant, which makes me suspicous about this contact point.
> 
> Not stock routing.  In any event, the fuel line should be away from any
> exhaust
> manifolds/pipes, any hot surfaces, and that would include the hoses.
> 
> > - On the panel to which the radiator bolts, I have 4 nuts brazed
> >   on to the forward face (i.e. the opposite side of the radiator),
> >   roughly just inside of where the radiator bolt holes are on the
> >   opposite/inside face (they seem to be 1/4"-20s).  Are these.....
> 
> As your message was cropped here, I can only assume you were going to ask "Why
> two
> sets of holes?"  The answer is the inner set are for Alpine radiators, and the
> outer set are for the Tiger.  Check that thread again.  It's probably 1/4-28,
> as
> the British don't believe in course threads except for a few farm implements.
> 
        []  According to the previous owner of my Tiger, the left side Tiger rad
holes are 5/16-24, the right side upper is 5/16-18, and the right side lower is
8mm x 1.25.

        Theo
          

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