- 1. Austin-Healey Overdrive available (score: 1)
- Author: plumpe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Plumpe)
- Date: 20 Dec 93 08:19 EST
- I have an overdrive unit from my (former) 1967 Austin-Healey 3000 MkIII that, after 24 years in my basement, just has to go. I'm retiring and need all the space I can get to store the minutia of a ca
- /html/british-cars/1993-12/msg00409.html (7,049 bytes)
- 2. Re: Speedo recalibration - TR4 (score: 1)
- Author: plumpe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Plumpe)
- Date: 6 Jul 93 10:05 EDT
- Glad to. The metal bar is a permanent magnet, which generates eddy currents in the cap proportional to the bar's rotational speed, which produces a proportional torque, which deforms the hairspring,
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00059.html (8,003 bytes)
- 3. Re: British Cars Digest #876 Thu Jul 8 01:15:02 MDT 1993 (score: 1)
- Author: plumpe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Plumpe)
- Date: 8 Jul 93 07:45 EDT
- Speedo Calibration... = = >magnetic field strength. For my MG TF-1500 I set up a drill motor on = the bench with a speed controller, optical shaft pickup and frequency = counter to drive the speedo a
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00102.html (9,559 bytes)
- 4. Re: anybody have this size tap? (score: 1)
- Author: plumpe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Plumpe)
- Date: 13 Aug 93 07:10 EDT
- Hmmmmm. Could that *possibly* be a common 1/2-20 NF thread ??? 1/2-20 looks like 12.7x1.27mm in the metric world. Try measuring it again, but with an inch ruler. Just for info, 1/2" Whitworth have 12
- /html/british-cars/1993-08/msg00634.html (7,880 bytes)
- 5. Re: Understeer/Tire Inflation (score: 1)
- Author: plumpe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Plumpe)
- Date: 16 Sep 92 09:33 EDT
- (Bob Spidell remarked that his '67 A/H 3000 understeers badly, suspected high front weight bias, and asked about fudging tire pressures.) Actually, despite that 600 lb chunk of iron up front, the big
- /html/british-cars/1992-09/msg00243.html (7,644 bytes)
- 6. 1996 MGB RV8 in Road & Track (score: 1)
- Author: plumpe@oasys.dt.navy.mil (David Plumpe)
- Date: 9 Jul 92 08:28 EDT
- The August 'Road & Track', page 31 states that Rover has confirmed the MGB RV8 for 1996, with a 3.9 liter V8, and gives a drawing. IMHO it's a very nice looker - full but not bloated, powerful rear l
- /html/british-cars/1992-07/msg00162.html (8,347 bytes)
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