- 1. ZS carb idle adjustments (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 11:46:43 EDT
- I don't think anyone has warned about turning the mixture adjustment too far lean (counterclockwise), which causes the whole needle assembly to fall off the end of the threaded adjuster that you tur
- /html/6pack/2006-05/msg00095.html (8,391 bytes)
- 2. Randy S wire wheel request (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 23:50:32 EDT
- Sorry to bomb the list but: Randy, please send me current email address. My responses to your request re wire wheel this morning keep bouncing back and messages left at your cell phone # yielding no
- /html/6pack/2006-05/msg00302.html (6,368 bytes)
- 3. torque (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 19:00:16 EDT
- Fairly certain that it is proper to use torque as either noun or verb, I decided to do the desperate deed and actually look it up in a dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary, which I imagine all
- /html/6pack/2006-07/msg00359.html (6,844 bytes)
- 4. Re: SU carb advance port (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 23:03:47 EDT
- A supplementary question is: does this engine really need this feature for performance reasons, or is the vacuum retard only an accommodation to emissions control? I am converting this car from downd
- /html/6pack/2006-09/msg00114.html (7,454 bytes)
- 5. [6pack] trailing arm studs (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:45:29 EDT
- I know this issue has come up before, but I always thought, "never happen to me" so I didn't pay close attention. Well, it happened to me, driving down the Garden State Parkway headed for a week at
- /html/6pack/2007-08/msg00184.html (7,608 bytes)
- 6. [6pack] SU choke linkage (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:30:57 EDT
- Hi Bruce, I have had SU's on my '71 for many years. They were off a Volvo if memory serves. The chokes were linked with a short rod and two fittings, one at each end, that provided little arms to eng
- /html/6pack/2008-06/msg00186.html (7,248 bytes)
- 7. [6pack] john doe manifold request (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:43:01 EDT
- John Doe: I have one late model exhaust manifold. I'm about 40 miles north of NYC in Westchester County. Contact me directly at _jgk423@aol.com_ (mailto:jgk423@aol.com) Jim **Get fantasy football wit
- /html/6pack/2008-07/msg00094.html (6,557 bytes)
- 8. [6pack] su needles fro TR6 (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:45:44 EDT
- KN (spring biased, originally a Volvo app, I think) have worked well for me. Joe Curto told me years ago that he was using CV (AH 3000 app if memory serves). Jim **Get fantasy football with free liv
- /html/6pack/2008-07/msg00114.html (6,915 bytes)
- 9. [6pack] su carb needles (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:59:22 EDT
- Forgot to mention that the long spring inside the carb comes in different spring rates, which makes a difference also in how the carb performs. Basically the spring slows the rise of the piston, affe
- /html/6pack/2008-07/msg00115.html (7,207 bytes)
- 10. [6pack] semi-flat black windscreen paint (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:19:55 EST
- Bob wrote: "I noted on the 6pack forum that one member painted the rear valence with Dupont Satin black and it looks very nice. I think he used a rattle can." I used SEM Original Trim black, #39143 o
- /html/6pack/2009-01/msg00079.html (7,299 bytes)
- 11. [6pack] re wodd dash replacements (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 20:02:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Don't post much, but still read the digest. After buying a 71 TR6, total rat, in 1982 and driving it into the ground, I restored it for myself in my spare time. Pics of it appeared in the 6 pack mag
- /html/6pack/2011-11/msg00008.html (7,324 bytes)
- 12. Re: [6pack] 6pack Digest, Vol 5, Issue 3 (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:31:47 -0500 (EST)
- Hi, I have a good friend of 30 years, from whom I learned a lot about cars, especialy LBC's. We met because my new to me, but 11 years old and well thrashed, 1971 TR6 had stumped me. He had recently
- /html/6pack/2013-01/msg00016.html (9,356 bytes)
- 13. Re: [6pack] 6pack Digest, Vol 5, Issue 115 (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 14:51:09 -0400 (EDT)
- I've had good luck with Nissonger on Mamaroneck Ave in Mamaroneck , NY, in the past. Been awhile, so I don't know if they're still in business. Jim Knight 71TR6 In a message dated 10/7/2013 2:30:42 P
- /html/6pack/2013-10/msg00010.html (8,081 bytes)
- 14. Re: [6pack] 6pack Digest, Vol 5, Issue 134 (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 02:03:56 -0500 (EST)
- Quite a long time ago now, I had what seemed to be a head gasket failure, and may well have been. Whatever the cause, in remedying it my machinist found a crack between exhaust and intake in one comb
- /html/6pack/2013-11/msg00011.html (8,190 bytes)
- 15. [6pack] re red striping tires (score: 1)
- Author: Jimandruthhome@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 14:54:28 -0500
- When I bought new wire wheels and tires for my '71, I had British Wire Wheel put red stripes on the Vreedsteins I purchased. They cut a very shallow dado in the sidewall and fill it with a red rubber
- /html/6pack/2015-02/msg00026.html (8,038 bytes)
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