Hi Michael
Funny enough I wanted to make a left turn into a local beauty spot and
decided I was going too fast, I was at college at the time and I had a car
full of friends, we went there most days during our lunch break, there was a
red squirrel that used to come and scrounge chips from us, real nice to hand
feed him, he didn't get his chips that day!
Graham.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael D. Porter" <mporter@zianet.com>
To: "Graham Stretch" <technical@iwnet.screaming.net>
Cc: "Triumph List" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 5:44 AM
Subject: Re: TR with OVERDRIVE - Do's and Don'ts
>
>
> Graham Stretch wrote:
> >
> > Hi All
> > I guess it would have pretty much the same effect as when I did an
almost
> > perfect double declutched down shift in my Herald, Fourth to Second at
about
> > 70 MPH, the rev counter hit the stop things got loud then quiet. When I
> > rolled to a stop the engine was still going but I had no drive. Got
towed
> > home and took the box out and found the clutch embedded on the inside of
the
> > bell housing! Hence the reason I said almost perfect, it would have been
> > perfect if it had been a tadge slower and not blown things up!
>
> When I was much, much younger and attending the unofficial drag races
> set up on the air base at which my father was stationed, I remember one
> enlisted man finishing a run in his fairly new Olds 442, then walking
> over to some acquaintance, who asked him, "why the 442? Wasn't the
> Corvette faster?" "Yep," he said, "but I hit an expressway downramp at
> 120 and thought I was going a bit too fast and, without thinking, went
> from 4th to 2nd... sort of welded up the whole engine, and the dealer
> gave me a good trade on the Olds."
>
> Cheers.
>
> --
>
> Michael D. Porter
> Roswell, NM
> [mailto: mporter@zianet.com]
>
> `70 GT6+ (being refurbished, slowly)
> `71 GT6 Mk. III (organ donor)
> `72 GT6 Mk. III (daily driver)
> `64 TR4 (awaiting intensive care)
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