This is my vote.
A.) Keep it. It is a valuable resource, and it will be my personal
responsibility to post my own recommendations, given, or received.
Sometimes it is easier to ask the question than to look for it even though a
better/ more complete answer may already be lurking there on TU.
TU is a good starting place. If the answer is not there go to the list and
when you get the answer it can be placed on the Forum for future reference.
I have a Tiger folder where I have saved questions/answers/info that I feel
may be helpful to me in the future.
I would have more but past computer crashes have wiped out allot of good
info.
I commit to one day cutting and pasting some of them into the Forum.
I have many questions I am seeking answers for. After many years of VW
projects I have to learn about Tigers.
I see questions I have come across the list that never seem to be answered
online.
My $.02
Lewis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Laifman" <SLaifman@socal.rr.com>
To: "Kathy and Erich Coiner" <kathy.coiner@gte.net>
Cc: "Tiger List" <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 3:24 PM
Subject: TigersUnited Forum - Who's it for?
> Tigers and Erich,
>
> The water pump information of Erich's is very valuable to Tiger
> enthusiasts, and we thank Erich for posting it. He even goes into the
> sources and details of the modifications he found necessary. I,
> personally, believed it to have such a lasting value that I posted it in
> our TigersUnited.com Forum, under "Cooling"
>
> Those of us who have a current need for this information are well served
> by the List e-mail alone. Those who have yet to have a pump crisis
> will, hopefully, make a copy and file it away for future reference. The
> probability, with the demise of ListQuest search site, of finding it
> amongst all your saved mail, when you need it, is nearly zero.
>
> That is why the Tiger Forum section of TigersUnited.com was created
> (access by hot link in TU.com top black bar). Yes, I know most Forums
> are active communications media for ongoing discussions, but even then,
> finding older material is difficult to impossible. If any wants to use
> it for "normal" Forum type activity, it is fully activated for such use,
> and organized to allow it. New categories can always be added, as needed.
>
> Besides, we are car enthusiasts, not computer enthusiasts. The Tiger
> List has been the sole method of communication amongst us way before
> "Forums" were even created, thanks to pioneers like Mark Olson
> <http://www.classictiger.com/>. It remains our primary means of
> communication.
>
> TigersUnited.com tried, once, to collect all historical important List
> posted Tech Tips and publish an organized collection. Many volunteers
> spent untold hours making editorial assemblies of various subjects. The
> job was just too large. The information still exists, and is all filed
> under "Mailing List Threads", under "Technical Tips". It died from
> being just too great a load for the volunteer individual editors to
> accept, especially when they are more interested in their cars anyway.
>
> To still retain the concept of an organized retention of important
> Technical Notes that are posted, like Erich's, the "Forum" was organized
> like a Workshop Manual, and the "Performance" and "Restoration"
> sections, to allow the authors of the tip (or the recipients who
> benefited) to post this for the rest of us to find when we need it.
>
> At most, it requires a "Copy/Paste" of the final E-mail into the proper
> category by the author or recipient. I have taken the liberty of doing
> this for Erich's note. Now everybody can find it in the Forum under
> "Cooling" when they need it. But I cannot do it for everybody, all the
> time. This is a participant's responsibility to assure his resource
> remains available, as HE desires.
>
> Unfortunately, this is an under utilized resource. Not many take the
> effort to Cut/Paste the final message and answer into the proper
> category. This leaves the entire job in my hands, and that certainly
> was not intended, or acceptable. This resource, with over 100
> registered members from around the World is intended for their own (and
> your) use in posting and using the information.
>
> I am seeking your comment and assistance.
>
> 1) If you find you do not need an organized record of the great tips
> that come through our Tiger List, or it is too difficult to use or post
> your best stuff, then perhaps it should be eliminated.
>
> 2) Perhaps you did not see the "Forum" in the top black bar of the
> TU.com site, and did not know what is available, (or what has been lost
> for lack of individual postings.)
>
> Please browse through what is there, and respond with your comment,
> such as:
>
> A.) Keep it. It is a valuable resource, and it will be my personal
> responsibility to post my own recommendations, given, or received.
>
> B) I've never looked at it before, but now that I have I find no value
> in it to me. Dump it.
>
> C) Keep it, but let someone else do all the work entering all the List
> Posted Questions and Answers for me. I am too busy.
>
> Your views are solicited.
>
> Steve
>
> EXAMPLE MESSAGE:
>
> Kathy and Erich Coiner wrote:
>
> Steve,
>
> Below, you describe the exact pump I purchased from Summit racing.
> I did not spring for the polished model, I painted mine dark Ford blue to
> match the rest of my engine.
>
> The back side of the Edelbrock hub is tapered to a diameter larger than 1
> inch.
> The fan and pulley won't sit on it properly unless some lathe work is
> attempted.
> I started to pull the hub off and make the mods, but it was on really
tight
> and my steering wheel puller was not happy trying to move it. I did some
> calculations and decided there was enough room to press the hub on far
> enough to put the pulleys in line. Then I made and pressed on a 1 inch
> diameter cylinder. This made for a nice close fit with the pulley and
fan.
> My parts slip on easily and have almost no radial run out. Works real
> good, should last long time :)
>
>
> --
>
> Steve Laifman
> Editor
> http://www.TigersUnited.com
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