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1. Re: How hot is hot? (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Tue, 1 May 90 16:04:42 PDT; Yup, though it's usually more empirical, as in the advice the Healey Store used to give out. We put it in a newsletter column at least once, though it was more simply put. For the record: A 50-50 bl; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00025.html (7,930 bytes)
2. Re: brake fluid, shock fluid (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Tue, 1 May 90 15:56:57 PDT; 1- I saw mention of 'dreaded DOT 3' brake fluid. What kind should be used and what is wrong with DOT 3. Use only Castrol GT "LMA" brake fluid. Not only is this rated at DOT 4, but it is compatible wi; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00026.html (10,149 bytes)
3. Re: brake fluid, shock fluid (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Wed, 2 May 90 09:39:32 PDT; In a car with Girling or Lockheed brake components you should use the Girling brake fluid or silicon (Hope I don't start anouther long discussion on silicon) Only in that I think we'd all prefer to h; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00050.html (10,191 bytes)
4. Re: brake fluid, shock fluid (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Wed, 2 May 90 10:33:52 PDT; It isn't. For how long? A couple of minutes? It doens't work like Fizzies, it takes a while to dissolve them. But believe me, when your brake master cylinder goes out because you used Prestone (DOT; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00051.html (9,199 bytes)
5. Re: Thanks & Post Coital letdown (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Tue, 8 May 90 12:42:25 PDT; What a sensation... The closest I've ever been to having a car *finished* was when I got the new top and interior on the '74 Midget with its rebuilt front end, new brakes, and factory-rebuilt transm; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00174.html (9,923 bytes)
6. Re: Thanks & Post Coital letdown (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Wed, 9 May 90 18:54:57 PDT; It is fun listening to bob and Scott talk about the "true meanings" of owning and caring for a British hunk of iron. One of the thoughts expressed by both bothered me a little. Perhaps my situation i; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00195.html (13,128 bytes)
7. Re: oil additives (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Mon, 14 May 90 11:09:38 PDT; Wow, you must be pretty flexible! I've tried, and I can't imagine having it in an MGB. That's why you keep the picnic blanket in the trunk, after all, isn't it? As the saying goes, sports cars will; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00264.html (8,369 bytes)
8. Re: transmission oil (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Fri, 11 May 90 17:22:34 PDT; Does this discussion of transmission oil apply to AH Sprites, which, if memory serves, expect standard weight engine oil rather than heavier gear oil? Of course, by "standard weight" I mean something; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00276.html (9,789 bytes)
9. Re: More Horses for Spridgets - I mean BIG PONIES (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Mon, 14 May 90 15:34:26 PDT; Uhhh, well, not quite. The standard three-out, two-in A Series head is quite capable of shearing axle shafts on its own, thank you, isn't it, Miq? Car 0 puts out more than 10% more than this cylinde; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00292.html (10,901 bytes)
10. Re: shock absorbers (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Mon, 14 May 90 14:53:10 PDT; Depends on why they're leaking. (Presumably if you're planning to refill them, it's because they're low on fluid, right?) The answer is yes you CAN refill them, but it might not fix your problem. Of; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00295.html (8,781 bytes)
11. Re: gearbox oil (again!) and NOS MG parts (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Mon, 14 May 90 16:00:43 PDT; Actually, the Sprite came first, introduced in May 1958. (For extra credit, name the city and event at which the Sprite was introduced to the motoring press.) The Mini was introduced in 1959 (can't; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00308.html (9,200 bytes)
12. RE: Car Survey - Last Call (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Mon, 14 May 90 16:15:10 PDT; Somehow I didn't make it to the list! My current British car is easy to include: MAKE MODEL YEAR COND -- MG MGB Tourer 1971 Runs 2, looks 4 Other cars currently include: MAKE MODEL YEAR COND -- Ford; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00309.html (8,102 bytes)
13. Oh, *THAT* Scott... (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Wed, 16 May 90 09:51:13 PDT; No, Scott those are technical lubrications. A lucubration in this context is probably a "studied or pretentious expression in speech or writing" (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary). Or are you sub; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00352.html (7,167 bytes)
14. FOrk Oil (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Wed, 16 May 90 14:35:43 PDT; I hope that Scott isn't recommending motorcycle fork oil just because he knows that I pour a lot of the stuff into my old Armstrongs. Well, not entirely. I believe it's a recommended optional procedu; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00362.html (8,006 bytes)
15. New British Car in the family (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Fri, 25 May 90 14:23:59 PDT; [Anyone on the racers list will have seen this already, but it's appropriate to this bunch of folks too --sf] Andy Banta called me a day or so after he went to the British Car swap meet up in Amador; /html/british-cars/1990-05/msg00465.html (11,257 bytes)
16. Re: toys (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 14:21:57 PDT; While wandering through the toy department of a local store, I ran across an unusual set of cars. It was a box labeled "Exotic European" cars, made by Majorette (a French toy company). In the set, th; /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00152.html (7,403 bytes)
17. Re: TLA's (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Fri, 20 Apr 90 11:14:14 PDT; For what it's worth, I've always interpreted LBC as Lovable British Car. That's because I've got an MGB, which is so big and roomy... (Miq Millman and I went on a parts chase in my MGB the other day.; /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00217.html (7,213 bytes)
18. Re: Another exhaust blat! (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Fri, 20 Apr 90 11:37:55 PDT; On a different subject... The name "Grandfather" has just sort of gotten used without much thought. I think it might be time to find a "real" name for our car. I've noted that most of you seem to pre; /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00258.html (10,730 bytes)
19. re: MPG survey (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Tue, 24 Apr 90 18:45:07 PDT; Depends on your application. The SUs make great street carbs because the variable venturi (dashpot) on them gives them high mixture velocity at low speeds. This helps our fine old machinery fill the; /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00275.html (8,532 bytes)
20. Bringing 'Em Up Right (score: 1): Author: sgi!abingdon.wpd.sgi.com!sfisher@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Scott Fisher); Date: Mon, 30 Apr 90 15:14:41 PDT; Well, I'm raising *MY* daughter right. Kim (my wife) was talking with Torrey and her friend Alex, who's also 2 1/2. Alex's daddy is in England for a while on business, so Kim was playing a name game; /html/british-cars/1990-04/msg00381.html (7,263 bytes)

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