- 141. Re: very strange and scary - sheared wheel stud (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 15:01:09 PST
- What type of car? TR4A.
- /html/british-cars/1990-02/msg00239.html (6,894 bytes)
- 142. Re: spindles etc. (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Tue, 27 Feb 90 11:14:12 PST
- My TR4A workshop manual just happens to be at work. It doesn't say how far to thread the vertical into the trunnion -- just to ensure that it moves easily back and forth. The point about the grease s
- /html/british-cars/1990-02/msg00260.html (6,778 bytes)
- 143. Re: Triumph Surrey top (and TR4A hoods) (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 90 13:35:58 PST
- The back of the top is secured by a plate that pinches the top to the rear deck. I don't understand. I have such a plate -- it's attached to the rear deck by five bolts, and the rear of the top snaps
- /html/british-cars/1990-01/msg00008.html (7,532 bytes)
- 144. Triumph Surrey top (and TR4A hoods) (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 90 10:34:33 PST
- So I've been looking at pictures of TR4s with Surrey tops, and the thought occurred that Sarah might look quite nice with one. Does anyone have any idea on where I might find one, and what the cost m
- /html/british-cars/1990-01/msg00041.html (7,283 bytes)
- 145. Re: WIRE WHEELS: true or replace? (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 01 Dec 89 11:59:46 PST
- 3. Someone told me about some wide rubber band things I should put around the wheel to cover the dimples where the spokes connect. I presume this is to prevent inner tube chafing. I have lots of MGB
- /html/british-cars/1989-12/msg00010.html (7,684 bytes)
- 146. Re: Logos, Re: Bonnets, BMH (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 01 Dec 89 11:53:38 PST
- I clearly missed the BMH tracing blurb. Could someone reproduce it for me? I'd love to do this. I'd also love to figure out who all the previous owners were. Anybody got ideas on this? So far, I'm st
- /html/british-cars/1989-12/msg00012.html (6,575 bytes)
- 147. Re: Elan OEM Rims and 1990 Elan (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 89 10:54:13 PST
- As I have said before, what is a sports car nut to do? Buy an old one. It's interesting: I just helped a friend buy a new car. She was driving an 83 Mazda GLC sedan that had been pretty badly beaten.
- /html/british-cars/1989-12/msg00040.html (7,971 bytes)
- 148. Re: Demon Tweeks (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Thu, 07 Dec 89 17:36:32 PST
- Hmm. That makes me wonder. Does anyone have the phone number for Triumph Tune? I sent them a card a while back asking for a catalog. They want an international money order for something under 10 poun
- /html/british-cars/1989-12/msg00064.html (6,651 bytes)
- 149. Re: Lotus, snow, claustrophobia (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 08 Dec 89 09:12:40 PST
- Jim asks: I don't quite understand. You mean a car with AC, tranny, fancy stereo, etc.? You mean a Hyundai or a M-B? Any anyway, Jaguar doesn't make either a Hyundai or a M-B I mean I'm not sure I wo
- /html/british-cars/1989-12/msg00078.html (6,751 bytes)
- 150. a yuppie picture (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 89 12:03:24 PST
- Seen yesterday on the streets of Palo Alto: A red Miyata, top down, with a NeXT computer box in the back.
- /html/british-cars/1989-12/msg00129.html (6,372 bytes)
- 151. these cars *are* indestructible (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 89 08:44:21 PST
- It's pretty quiet, so I thought I'd send out my latest example of how badly Sarah has been hacked by previous owners. Since I brought her home, she's run cold. The only time that she'd come to temper
- /html/british-cars/1989-12/msg00179.html (7,549 bytes)
- 152. Re: thermostats (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 89 14:11:11 PST
- Sarah is a '67 TR4A... Of course, there's a downside to the engine running at the proper temperature (there's always a downside, right?): First, there's a lot of run on, and some pinking. No doubt I
- /html/british-cars/1989-12/msg00183.html (6,990 bytes)
- 153. ok, who's the wise guy? (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 29 Dec 89 14:32:20 PST
- Comes time to flush the cooling system on Sarah (TR4A). I discover that not only is there a drain at the bottom of the radiator, but one at the rear of the block. Great, I think, this'll make it easy
- /html/british-cars/1989-12/msg00184.html (6,720 bytes)
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