- 21. Another car for sale. (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 28 Apr 92 10:52:59 EDT
- Wanna' buy a whole car company? NPR had a blurb this morning that Vickers is putting R-R up for sale. Seems they have been making money pretty well up to this past year, whereupon they lost (I think
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00670.html (6,811 bytes)
- 22. Re: Yes, I peddle my TR6 (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 92 10:23:45 EDT
- No, no, no! Us 60's flower-children are more concerned with petals. You know, VW buses and stuff. Jim Muller Spitfire pilot
- /html/british-cars/1992-04/msg00726.html (6,608 bytes)
- 23. Re: Interesting weekend. (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 10:32:48 EST
- Huh? A Spitfire, an MBG, and a gaggle of other *British* cars in that decidedly Irish event we call a St. Patrick's Day parade??? The world gets curiouser and curiouser. Jim
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00298.html (6,842 bytes)
- 24. Re: ball bearings in your head (score: 1)
- Author: muller@alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 92 10:36:21 EST
- Someone in SOL has ball bearings in his/her head... c'mon, folks, April 1 is still 2 weeks away. Jim
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00378.html (6,501 bytes)
- 25. Re: Spitfire Differential (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 92 08:55:17 EST
- Is my diff okay? I hope so, but I haven't used it yet this year :-(. I replaced it with a used one last year. Jim
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00520.html (6,612 bytes)
- 26. Re: Spitfire Differential/axle bearings (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 10:04:25 EST
- Hullo. Good comments on the rear-end noises from the Spitfire, but I think Zahid was talking more about the diff itself. Yes, the axle bearings in the trunnion can wear and score the axle. The best p
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00528.html (6,927 bytes)
- 27. Re: TR250 wiring (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 30 Mar 92 10:10:40 EST
- SPEED HALLMAN asks: Surely you know the old maxim that on a British car, a bulb will blow so as to protect a fuse? Well, the same holds for wiring. Jim Muller
- /html/british-cars/1992-03/msg00530.html (6,561 bytes)
- 28. I'm back. (score: 1)
- Author: muller@alliant.com (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 1 Oct 91 15:32:39 EDT
- Hi, everybody. I have asked mjb to put me back on the list. I am back at Alliant, and expect my email address will be muller@alliant.com. I hope you are all well. Jim Muller, Spitfire pilot, ex-Keepe
- /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00030.html (6,215 bytes)
- 29. last day of british-cars@alliant.com (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 90 12:53:06 EDT
- For those who haven't been reading the SOL mail diligently enough, here is an announcement. Today, Friday, Oct. 5, 1990, is the last day of the mailing list british-cars@alliant.com. I will be moving
- /html/british-cars/1990-10/msg00032.html (7,572 bytes)
- 30. I'm going on vacation. (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 90 18:43:49 EDT
- Fellow Lucasites, I will be on vacation next week, Sept. 10-16. *Pullleeeeeze* do not overload british-cars while I am gone. Also, if you have any requests for administrational changes (such as "I'll
- /html/british-cars/1990-09/msg00086.html (6,753 bytes)
- 31. swing axles (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 90 12:59:52 EDT
- The Spitfire Mk IV got a revised suspension that was different in several ways. The rear spring was composed of 4 leaves instead of 7. The lower leaf was flat but the others had a slight notch upward
- /html/british-cars/1990-09/msg00189.html (10,095 bytes)
- 32. changes and rivets (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 90 15:57:01 EDT
- Okay eveyone, listen up! First, the trania, oops, I mean the rivits. (Sorry, too much trekking.) Barry K., it is easy to replace the plastic snap fasteners, at least the ones on Spitfire 1500's. You
- /html/british-cars/1990-09/msg00227.html (8,936 bytes)
- 33. Spit Rr Wheel Bearing R&R? (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 90 11:45:41 EDT
- Mike Tobin asks: Bummer. Do it the way the Haynes book says. It isn't hard. Remove the four bolts that hold the u-joint to the diff, the bolt that holds the top of the vertical link to the spring, an
- /html/british-cars/1990-08/msg00003.html (10,331 bytes)
- 34. correction on Spitfire Rear wheel bearing... (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 90 12:06:20 EDT
- Regarding whether the halfshaft can be salvaged, the last time I lost one, I drove immediately *home*, for a distance of maybe 6 blocks, not 30 miles to the shop. Then I took the halfshaft/rear suspe
- /html/british-cars/1990-08/msg00004.html (7,259 bytes)
- 35. Yowsa! (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 6 Aug 90 13:10:43 EDT
- Congrats to every SOL'er that did well at VTR this year. It's good to know that some of you continued the heritage at the autocross. I see from Kirkb's story that John Lye was there. John was a chart
- /html/british-cars/1990-08/msg00043.html (6,516 bytes)
- 36. Spitfire engine (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 90 14:41:48 EDT
- (And now from the land of run-on sentences): According to my memory, which was fed on various books and reprint articles, and which can indeed have been fed improperly and also behave poorly, there a
- /html/british-cars/1990-08/msg00334.html (9,092 bytes)
- 37. ...in all kinds of weather! (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Mon, 2 Jul 90 16:44:14 EDT
- First, let me congratulate our own Steve Timmins (and I hope it isn't Mike or Bill or something, because my memory is totally blank right now) on his story in The English Channel on coaxing his GT-6
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00011.html (12,285 bytes)
- 38. Percy's engine...huh? (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 90 13:34:41 EDT
- It sounded like maybe I had blown an exhaust gasket this weekend. So I drove the 200 miles home, and it didn't seem like a serious problem, but I figured I'd investigate further before ordering parts
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00028.html (9,554 bytes)
- 39. one line dropped (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Tue, 3 Jul 90 13:42:38 EDT
- Somehow, mail dropped a line. Compression should have been: 197 183 167 192 (or so) Jim
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00029.html (6,147 bytes)
- 40. this weekend's car activities... (score: 1)
- Author: muller@Alliant.COM (Jim Muller)
- Date: Thu, 5 Jul 90 17:01:46 EDT
- Sorry to intrude again... Firstly, you folks bashing the 1500 Midget should make note of the years involved. Don't forget that all cars were having trouble with emissions standards then. B-L felt tha
- /html/british-cars/1990-07/msg00047.html (7,925 bytes)
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