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RE: hood and smoke questions

To: "triumphs@autox.team.net" <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: RE: hood and smoke questions
From: Jane Burdekin <burdekij@bvsd.k12.co.us>
Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 05:31:36 -0600
If you have smoke coming out you probably need rings, sounds like a project 
car.  24K seems low to need rings, maybe its 124k?  Don't know about the 
rubber plugs for the hood, but I have lots of rattles on my GT6.  Good 
luck.  Jane
'67 GT6

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From:   Anthony Green[SMTP:green@cygnus.com]
Sent:   Wednesday, May 07, 1997 8:34 PM
To:     triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject:        hood and smoke questions


Hi - I'm new to Triumphs and am considering buying a '79 Spitfire
1500. It appears to be in good shape, has all maintenance records and
only 24k miles on it.

I have a couple of questions....

1. The hood rattles when it idles. The seller showed me a couple of
   little rubber plugs on the hood that have worn down, making the
   hood a bit loose when closed. Does this sound reasonable? Are they
   easy to find and replace?

2. It doesn't have a very smoothe idle. The seller claimed that you
   don't want a smoothe idle. ???? Does this sound right?

3. There was some smoke coming out the exhaust. I saw a little black
   smoke and a little grey. What would be a reasonable amount of
   smoke? Is any amount reasonable?

Thanks!

Anthony

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Anthony Green                                               Cygnus 
Solutions
                                                       Sunnyvale, 
California




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