- 41. well I'll be hornswoggled (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 90 09:28:33 PDT
- My insurance agent just called me. He said he'd called someone else about Sarah's value, and got "2000 low, 4000 mid, 6000 high". I told him I thought that was still low, but I hadn't collected enoug
- /html/british-cars/1990-08/msg00345.html (6,796 bytes)
- 42. Re: TR-7 FI Parts (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 90 10:40:19 PDT
- Triumph Specialty (new & used) 991 Berryessa Rd., San Jose, CA (408) 453-4011 Danger! Danger! mjb put it best when he first sent me his list of Triumph parts suppliers: -- Not recommended, assuming a
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00045.html (7,440 bytes)
- 43. Re: Wiper problem (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 90 10:31:31 PDT
- Oh yes -- that's another wiper problem. When the car is cold, they barely move. I'm guessing that this is a lubrication problem, that might be cured with lighter or more modern grease somewhere in th
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00046.html (6,641 bytes)
- 44. Re: Wiper problem (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Thu, 05 Jul 90 10:27:55 PDT
- What is the problem with the wipers? (On my TR-4A.) Well, they're just not that effective. Part of the problem is that the curvature of the windshield at the edges is pretty severe, so the driver's s
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00051.html (6,887 bytes)
- 45. sound deadening material (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 90 04:47:32 PDT
- Aha! Found it again -- the TRF TR-250 catalog shows sound deadening material on the rear floor behind the seats, on the rear shelf, at under the fuel tank. They list it as "Pad, heat fusible, <area>"
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00063.html (6,607 bytes)
- 46. Sarah's Suspension Saga, part n (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 90 05:45:30 PDT
- This is a copy of a somewhat lengthy letter that I just sent off to The Raodster Factory. I'm getting desperate, so I thought I'd send a copy here, too -- any ideas will be greatly appreciated. The R
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00067.html (10,399 bytes)
- 47. Uh oh... (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 90 08:59:58 PDT
- The neurons that help me distinguish caster from camber are fairly new and clearly weren't working this morning when I wrote that letter to TRF. The problem that we can't get fixed is postive CAMBER,
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00073.html (6,397 bytes)
- 48. Re: Sarah's suspension saga (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 90 09:58:10 PDT
- [I've been gone a week, so dredge your memeory -- I'm the one with the 4A with the front suspension troubles.] [Recalcitrant bolts] You really have no need to remove them. I looked at them, looked at
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00120.html (8,021 bytes)
- 49. Anybody know TR-4A spring specs? (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 90 17:00:46 PDT
- This is part n of Sarah's Suspension Saga, for those of you that are keeping Sarah (my TR-4A) has been in the shop for two weeks while the folks at Precision Frame and Axle fiddle the front suspensio
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00194.html (7,770 bytes)
- 50. Re: West Coast b-c list? (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 90 23:16:04 PDT
- I'm interested in hearing more about this too. Is this just to limit distribution or is it actually a separate list? It's just a redistribution point for british-cars@alliant.com -- mere mortals are
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00222.html (6,898 bytes)
- 51. just FYI if you've got a TR-6 (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 90 18:51:00 PDT
- I was down at Triumphs Only today, and saw a trio of Dellortos with intake manifold for a -6 sitting on the shelf for $600.
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00228.html (6,498 bytes)
- 52. Re: Calm youself, TeriAnn... (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 90 18:54:33 PDT
- The problem, THE PROBLEM (he says shouting like a savage), is that English has shed her neuter pronouns and inflections -- NOT, repeat NOT, that anyone wants you to get mail addressed to Mr! Hear hea
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00229.html (6,809 bytes)
- 53. Sarah's suspension. the list, and boulder (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 90 14:43:12 PDT
- Darrell reminded me that I never finished the saga of Sarah's suspension. I'll give you the short version -- it's all back together and fairly happy. We ended up putting in a set of somewhat shorter,
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00300.html (8,204 bytes)
- 54. FASPEC (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 01 Jun 90 23:20:51 PDT
- I just got a bunch of door rope for my TR from FASPEC, and their flyer has many May specials, leading off with MGB Bolt-on Dunlop wire wheels, new 4/$400 Lots and lots of MG, Morris, Mini, and Austin
- /html/british-cars/1990-06/msg00007.html (6,597 bytes)
- 55. Sarah's suspension saga (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Mon, 04 Jun 90 00:17:12 PDT
- After much procrastination, I finally began rebuilding Sarah's (my TR-4A), front suspension. After a weekend's work, I pretty much have everything disassembled, and have assessed the damage. Damage?
- /html/british-cars/1990-06/msg00023.html (9,788 bytes)
- 56. Re: Spitfire Front Trunion (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Mon, 11 Jun 90 10:26:25 PDT
- We went through this (with TR-4A, -250, and -6) a few months ago. What we finally decided was that the switch from grease to 90W happened when the -4A came out (1965), and was mainly to try to avoid
- /html/british-cars/1990-06/msg00041.html (7,145 bytes)
- 57. all clear? (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 18 May 90 19:04:24 PDT
- As I send this message (to british-cars@alliant.com), I believe that all the mail to british-cars-local@decwrl has drained from the queues at decwrl. We shouldn't see any more duplicates from that ba
- /html/british-cars/1990-06/msg00059.html (6,434 bytes)
- 58. alignments? (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 90 15:48:50 PDT
- [British-cars readers, I'm in the San Francisco Bay Area.] I'm about to reassemble the front suspension on Sarah, my TR-4A. I've replaced several pieces that were fairly bent, so I'm pretty sure ther
- /html/british-cars/1990-06/msg00074.html (6,838 bytes)
- 59. Sarah's Suspension Saga continues... (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Wed, 20 Jun 90 17:33:53 PDT
- When last we left our story, Sarah's (my TR-4A) front suspension was apart, and I was trying to figure out where to find suspension parts. Found them nice and cheap at Triumphs Only in San Jose, and
- /html/british-cars/1990-06/msg00130.html (7,623 bytes)
- 60. Re: Various Triumph Items (score: 1)
- Author: mit-eddie!wsl.dec.com!kent@EDDIE.MIT.EDU
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 90 21:57:45 PDT
- Hmm, since we're talking about seat rails, any idea how to straighten a dented one? Sarah's seats wouldn't move because of rust. Once I fixed that, they wouldn't move because the lip of the interlock
- /html/british-cars/1990-06/msg00155.html (7,162 bytes)
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