A. ditto Stan Gorski
>From: "lgooch" <lgooch@satx.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "lgooch" <lgooch@satx.rr.com>
>To: "Steve Laifman" <SLaifman@socal.rr.com>
>CC: "Tiger List" <tigers@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Re: TigersUnited Forum - Who's it for?
>Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 20:10:24 -0700
>
>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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