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21. Re: Seized Clutch and Flywheel (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:50:27 EDT; Start the car in gear and drive the it around the block with your foot buried to the floor on the clutch pedal. Stomp on the accelerator and drop your foot off: repeat until the clutch breaks lose. S; /html/alpines/2004-09/msg00040.html (7,066 bytes)
22. Re: Steering wheel (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:45:38 EDT; Sunbeam Specialties has a hub adapter and several styles of steering wheels that will work on your car. You will (probably) have to shorten the (center) adjusting locking rod to clear the new center; /html/alpines/2004-09/msg00055.html (6,988 bytes)
23. Re: Series 1 rear Axle (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 23:09:28 EDT; IF...your list of parts were originally painted at all, they would not have been any other color than black. I have my doubts the brake drums were ever painted. I have seen many of what appeared to; /html/alpines/2004-08/msg00029.html (7,358 bytes)
24. Re: Alpine Update (oil pan) (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:40:10 EDT; That is typical in every steel pan 1725, probably caused by the way these pans were originally welded. My guess is the baffle oscillates and the steel eventually fails. I have seen dozens of them ei; /html/alpines/2004-08/msg00032.html (7,021 bytes)
25. Re: Engine swap CANCELLED. problem found???? (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:42:18 EDT; WOW! What a great picture of a Lucas casting failure. I have 3 identical alternators in my van right now for a customer to chose from for her car. Ironically, the alternator in my van just went tits; /html/alpines/2004-08/msg00040.html (6,816 bytes)
26. Re: Horns (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 20:16:31 EDT; Chuck, Tens of millions (more?) of American cars have been wired EXACTLY the same way for decades... Continual power to the horns ... the horn switch (horn ring) grounds the circuit. What's different; /html/alpines/2004-07/msg00007.html (6,923 bytes)
27. Re: Lost keys (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 01:18:49 EDT; The key police? That's a new one!; /html/alpines/2004-07/msg00028.html (6,830 bytes)
28. Re: rebuilding 1725 (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 01:12:52 EDT; Call me before you take the financial "plunge"... I have built literally dozens of engines over the years and in PTC, we have two local machine shops that I have personally "trained" ALA worked with; /html/alpines/2004-07/msg00073.html (8,477 bytes)
29. Re: rebuilding 1725 (horror stories!) (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:23:13 EDT; I think you have been dealing with the same Machinists I stopped going to, many years ago! Here's a story for you: I hand carried a 1600 crankshaft with new bearings in hand, to a machine shop for s; /html/alpines/2004-07/msg00082.html (7,901 bytes)
30. Re: rebuilding 1725 (horror stories) (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:43:04 EDT; YES, Carl! That is exactly what my guys love. Currently, there is an amazing Lagonda short block at the machine shop and a dozen Model B Ford and Ford V8 heads, at the head shop. Oddly, these guys "b; /html/alpines/2004-07/msg00083.html (7,564 bytes)
31. Re: "Hillman - " Re: rebuilding 1725 (horror stories!) (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:14:17 EDT; Geez...gimme a break. I was 17 or 18 at the time. Jim; /html/alpines/2004-07/msg00086.html (6,742 bytes)
32. Re: rebuilding 1725 (horror stories!) (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:24:39 EDT; Have I mentioned my one and only experience with yet another machine shop and a flywheel? My daily driver Minx needed a clutch and at the time, I didn't know how simple a job it is to remove and repl; /html/alpines/2004-07/msg00087.html (7,105 bytes)
33. Re: Oil pressure (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:57:03 EDT; On the "T" to rocker shaft junctions, I use the same flat neoprene seals I use when I split front brake calipers for rebuild. No machine work necessary. Available here! Jim Leach Pacific Tiger Club; /html/alpines/2003-09/msg00092.html (7,341 bytes)
34. Re: Replacing Rocker Arms (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:10:07 EDT; A competent machine shop would have a tool that they use to faces the arced foot...at least the Headshop I use does! Also note there is usually a lot of wear on the sides of the rockers where they r; /html/alpines/2003-08/msg00099.html (7,229 bytes)
35. 51 Sunbeam Talbot parts car available (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 09:08:23 EDT; Sorry to spam the lists, but I had a call last night from a friend trying to find a new home for a 1951 Sunbeam Talbot parts car. He says it could be restored but it is currently disassembled. It is; /html/alpines/2003-06/msg00113.html (6,718 bytes)
36. Re: Help my Mark V won't start (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 20:30:51 EDT; Put a voltmeter across the battery to prove it is charged. Move on to the "hot" wire from the battery at the solenoid and prove voltage is there between that terminal and ground (earth). Do you have; /html/alpines/2003-06/msg00167.html (6,876 bytes)
37. Re: WIPER CONTROLS Am I asking too much? (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 21:14:11 EST; Over the years, my Alpines have been the most fun and predictable cars to drive in rain or snow of any cars I have owned: perhaps that has to do with the seat-time earned in owning 16 Rootesmobiles.; /html/alpines/2003-02/msg00038.html (7,850 bytes)
38. Re: Chrome headlight rims (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 20:52:05 EST; There were two versions of peaked headlight doors: the Series 1 Rapier had a unique extended 'eyelid' but a chromed version of the common peaked Alpine-type rim was standard equipment on Minx 1-3 de; /html/alpines/2003-02/msg00066.html (6,991 bytes)
39. Alpine ad (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 01:57:10 EST; If anyone is interested, the current State Farm Insurance ad with a Sunbeam Alpine "popped-up" in front of me while visiting a website yesterday and I "stole" (copied) it. It is a .GIF and if you wou; /html/alpines/2003-02/msg00112.html (6,420 bytes)
40. Re: Brake Booster (score: 1): Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com; Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:08:04 EST; I guarantee if you add a booster back into the system and then drive the car, you will never want to be without it. Many people do not realize that once brake lining gets hot, such as in a racing si; /html/alpines/2003-01/msg00033.html (7,351 bytes)

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