- 81. MISSING STARTER BITS (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 08:10:00 -0500
- I am trying to resurrect an old starter motor found in one of my spares buckets. I believe it is for a TR4 or 4A. I need the two long bolts that hold the package together. They are seven inches long,
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00188.html (6,605 bytes)
- 82. TR6 Starting problems (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 94 08:14:00 -0500
- Michael Swatek; I would suggest you go back and clean the battery posts, swab them with Vaseoline(tm), and torque those suckers down tight! Alan
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00189.html (6,360 bytes)
- 83. MGB HEADS (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Wed, 23 Feb 94 08:51:00 -0500
- All this talk of cracked MGB heads makes my head ache. I have an early '74 BGT. I find a black ooze around the number three spark plug and sort of sprayed onto the dizzy and wires. Is this indicative
- /html/british-cars/1994-02/msg00596.html (6,924 bytes)
- 84. STARTER PROBLEMS (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 94 08:51:00 -0500
- Scott #1, It seems to me that by now you would have resolved your starter problems. I have a suggestion. Early last spring a friend was just finishing a complete restoration on an MGA. He couldn't ge
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00175.html (6,921 bytes)
- 85. K&N FILTERS/ SABRA (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 08:16:00 -0500
- You can reach K&N Filters through Advanced Performance Technology 561 Iowa Ave. Bldg. A Vega Industrial Park Riverside, ca. 92507 909.686.0260 FAX 909.686.2831 Call and talk to David Anton or David
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00537.html (6,454 bytes)
- 86. more on CIM (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 08:36:00 -0500
- Several years ago a gentleman by the name of Gingery wrote a series of books published by Lindsay Press on building a machine shop from scratch. His first book dealt with making a charcoal fired bla
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00538.html (7,264 bytes)
- 87. Green Car/ Florida Blue (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 94 09:07:00 -0500
- Scott #1: Kudos are in order. I, for one, am mjb: There is a gentleman in our vicinity who occasionally shows up at our car club meeting looking for parts for his Sabra. Seems that some British bits
- /html/british-cars/1994-01/msg00540.html (6,634 bytes)
- 88. COMMERCIAL PARTICIPATION (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 93 10:21:00 -0500
- My .02. I will certainly welcome any and all participation of commercial enterprises that can find their way into/onto this august body. After all, is this forum not for the sharing of information re
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00299.html (6,682 bytes)
- 89. REFERENCE BOOKS (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 93 08:46:00 -0500
- Someone was looking for titles of restoration books for spridgets. Offered was Lindsay Porter's book, which is pretty good. Another would be the "Practical Classics" re-issue of monthly articles in b
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00459.html (6,579 bytes)
- 90. stinky problem (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 93 08:49:00 -0500
- Greg Meythaler: I can't help but be curious... Is your driving so bad it caused your wife to vomit? My past lady friends at least had the courtesy to ask me to stop the car when they were ready to bl
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00489.html (7,521 bytes)
- 91. '77 Midget not starting... (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Wed, 3 Nov 93 12:08:00 -0500
- Steven Kopec writes,"had to turn the car off to get it to let go of a friend...." Therein lies your problem. The car has become attached to your friend and refuses to restart without that comforting,
- /html/british-cars/1993-11/msg00070.html (6,926 bytes)
- 92. MGB OIL PRESSURE (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 93 11:39:00 -0500
- All this talk of flucuating oil pressure gages and low and high oil levels, slow return from head to sump has me so concerned that I almost walked to work this am rather than risk throwing a bearing.
- /html/british-cars/1993-11/msg00102.html (8,227 bytes)
- 93. TR6 (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Thu, 4 Nov 93 12:24:00 -0500
- ??????????? Ned, where DO you get these impressions? Teri Ann works outside under a tree, just to site one example. I am in a cramped, ancient garage that's about to fall down. I don't have any more
- /html/british-cars/1993-11/msg00104.html (7,922 bytes)
- 94. Don Torgeson (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Wed, 10 Nov 93 10:33:00 -0500
- Does anyone know the current location and phone number for Don Torgeson? His last known whereabouts was Virginia City Nv. He produces excellent interior kits for most lbc's. Alan
- /html/british-cars/1993-11/msg00182.html (6,366 bytes)
- 95. Spridget lower hinge (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 93 11:10:00 -0500
- Apologies. I have fallen behind in my reading. Took Veterans' Day off. I think Marcus Tooze was asking what was involved in replacing the lower door hinge pocket on spridgets. The pocket itself can b
- /html/british-cars/1993-11/msg00312.html (7,071 bytes)
- 96. Random responses (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 93 09:01:00 -0500
- The questions about the big bolt on the crank pulley extension: I would not use loctite on this bolt. Itseems to me that there should be a tab washer on this bolt. If you ever need to get this bolt
- /html/british-cars/1993-11/msg00478.html (7,748 bytes)
- 97. RE:CARB:ARMSTRONG SIDDLEY (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Tue, 30 Nov 93 08:25:00 -0500
- In lbcd #1010, "Rob Reilly" writes"...in fourths of an inch is the SU model number." I have always thought that SU's were measured in eighths of an inch. Using his example of an H6, the throat would
- /html/british-cars/1993-11/msg00549.html (6,608 bytes)
- 98. TR4-Sudden Oil Pressure Drop (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 08:36:00 -0400
- In the lbcd #980, Adrian places a bit of card across the grille of his TR4 because the heater could only put out lukewarm air. Says his car runs pretty cool. Mine, also. The only time the temp gage g
- /html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00520.html (6,862 bytes)
- 99. TR hates inclines (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 10:27:00 -0400
- In the lbcd #980, Jim Brannan writes, " ...the vibration that causes them to stop leaking." Consider yourself fortunate! Nothing on any of my cars seems to correct itself from vibration. If anything,
- /html/british-cars/1993-10/msg00525.html (6,645 bytes)
- 100. BCD #952 (score: 1)
- Author: COSTICH_ALAN/HPATC1_01@i3125ent.atl.hp.com
- Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 18:09:00 +0000
- Marcus: I have a '59 Sprite rolling body tub for which I surrendered US$650. I have two friends who are also restoring '59 Sprites. One paid US$250 for a rolling body tub. Roger G: movie cars..... Le
- /html/british-cars/1993-09/msg00464.html (6,523 bytes)
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