----- Original Message -----
From: "David Brister" <brister@tiscali.fr>
To: <ScharfR@aol.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 8:01 PM
Subject: Re: Heading to Texas, part 1: Bringing back a TR3
> I have done some quite long journeys in my TR and never carried anything
> beyond a spare and jack, the normal selection of spanners, pliers, a
Stanley
> knife and so forth. You never know that you won't get for example a rear
> shocker coming a bit loose. Also I have insulating tape, a few bits of
> electric wire, galvanised wire thickish and thinnish, a test lamp, a tyre
> pump can be very useful if you have a blocked fuel line.
> I have had to be towed home twice in the lat 25 years. Once when a rear
> axle outer shaft sheared, (I was lucky the wheel did'nt leave the car,)
and
> once when a bolt securing the rocker pedestal to the cylinder head failed.
I
> don't think even the most pessimistic of TR drivers would carry spares to
> cover those failures!
> Absolutely vital is to have at least two new preferably OEM rotor arms,
and
> a condenser you know works. Quite handy to have a complete distributor and
> cap with points gapped ect and maybe a new plug or two if you want to
> overegg your omlette.
>
> Of course YMMV,
>
> David Brister
> 1967 TR4A
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