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1. RE: Triumph Sabrina (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 15:25:23 -0700; Yes, there is a photo of that TR-3 beetleback in the new book "Triumph Sports Cars" by Bill Krause. [... also a photo of my beloved Southern Cross] Dale Will; /html/fot/1999-04/msg00021.html (8,033 bytes)
2. RE: Overdrive Parts (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 09:33:09 -0700; I'd like to hear how this goes. I did find the thrust washers through Victoria British. I have an spare A type od with a blown roller clutch. For years I drove my TR-3 with a simple switch wired stra; /html/fot/1999-04/msg00049.html (8,556 bytes)
3. RE: Fuel Pump Kill Switches (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:16:10 -0800; Another idea would be to use a fuel pump relay from a late seventies/early eighties Rabbit; very cheap and plentiful. This relay is wired to the distributor and kills the pump if the engine stops.; /html/fot/1999-03/msg00030.html (7,956 bytes)
4. RE: Advice on transmission (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 10:10:30 -0800; I had the same problem. I doubt the synchros can cause this. Rather, my understanding is that the gear teeth wear to a tapered shape over time which push themselves apart. The solution therefore is t; /html/fot/1998-12/msg00012.html (8,126 bytes)
5. RE: GT6 valves - your advise please (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 13:57:47 -0800; Hopefully you don't mean the early GT-6 mk 1 head, which has all the ports in line horizonally. If this is what you have it is not original and gives up a lot to the later head. This reminds me that; /html/fot/1998-12/msg00064.html (8,326 bytes)
6. RE: All fiberglass TR3 ???? (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 13:42:15 -0800; Of course the TR-3S Le Mans cars were fiberglass. There have been ongoing reports that one of those bodies survives somewhere in the UK. Bill Piggot claims to have seen it. I keep waiting for some ph; /html/fot/1998-11/msg00017.html (16,736 bytes)
7. RE: Rack & Pinion for TR3 (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 09:20:40 -0800; There is a "how to" article on the in one of the volumes of "More BS about TRs" by the late Bill Shaller. TRF should stock these. Dale; /html/fot/1998-11/msg00026.html (7,529 bytes)
8. RE: Gearbox Info Needed (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 14:01:06 -0700; I bought a TR-4 OD box which had been in head on for my 3a. It too broke around the bell housing. I was assured on purchase that the box was a recent rebuild. That might have been true, but it turned; /html/fot/1998-10/msg00090.html (8,533 bytes)
9. RE: TR2 (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 10:33:03 -0700; I recently sold a long door which was original and complete but rusty and in need of a full restoration. I accepted $2500 for it. That was low I think, but the car was stored at my folks in Colorado; /html/fot/1998-09/msg00037.html (7,770 bytes)
10. RE: Rear Shock Absorbers (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 10:43:08 -0700; My issue with rear shocks has always been how to keep the darn mounting bolts tight. Once they loosen a little, the mounting bosses in the shocks go oval, and then no amount of torque will hold the s; /html/fot/1998-09/msg00064.html (8,760 bytes)
11. Fame revisited (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 09:52:13 -0700; Hi all, I had the pleasant surprise yesterday of finding a photo of my Southern Cross in a new book "Triumph Sports Cars" by Bill Krause. A nice little book with lots of color for $12. Unfortunately,; /html/fot/1998-09/msg00090.html (6,933 bytes)
12. RE: Observation @ VTR (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:48:18 -0700; Which will be when? (VTR west of (or in) the Rockies, that is...); /html/fot/1998-08/msg00131.html (7,866 bytes)
13. RE: Weekend Triumph (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 14:57:29 -0700; Hey, I resemble that comment! Actually, my Southern Cross is on 60 spoke 16" wheels like those on an XK 120 which aren't too spindly. That wheel was supplied on Triumphs in 1936 only and is non-stand; /html/fot/1998-08/msg00153.html (8,879 bytes)
14. RE: Daimler SP250 (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:27:50 -0700; Ah Scottland Yard... That brings back memories. I bought my first overdrive from them for $150 in 1977, to go in my $350 TR-3, both of which I still have..... Dale Will; /html/fot/1998-07/msg00023.html (8,006 bytes)
15. RE: Coolant (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 15:13:14 -0700; Another way to get air to that bottom section of the rad is to open the middle of the valance below the grill like on a TR-3S. Also, when I recored my rad I deleted the hole for the crank as that ren; /html/fot/1998-07/msg00033.html (7,721 bytes)
16. FW: Do you want it cheap or do you want it right (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:31:27 -0700; FYI all, this is what I the sole Triumph owner (Gloria) on the prewar list have to work with... Dale; /html/fot/1998-07/msg00070.html (10,822 bytes)
17. RE: Engine Rebuild (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 13:31:06 -0700; Kevin et al, I am interested as well. There were some commercially available in the UK but I have lost the magazine where I saw them mentioned. Dale Will; /html/fot/1998-07/msg00085.html (7,972 bytes)
18. RE: adjustable upper TR-3/4 a arm brackets (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 14:40:28 -0700; About two years ago there was a feature in a Brit mag about a TR-4 restored as a club project and it mentioned using some new fangled adjustable upper a arm brackets. The camber on my 3a has always b; /html/fot/1998-06/msg00194.html (6,763 bytes)
19. RE: 9" Alfin (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:30:59 -0700; A lot of those 9" alfin drums are just Datsun 240 Z rear drums which are drilled differently. You can get them really cheap at junk yards but I don't know what you'd do with the Datsun lug holes... D; /html/fot/1998-06/msg00196.html (7,467 bytes)
20. RE: RE: 9" Alfin (score: 1): Author: "Will, Dale" <dwill@consrv.ca.gov>; Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:12:42 -0700; Too bad that won't work for those of us with 10" drums. KenG said he was almost able to save the tooling for those... My Gloria has 12" drums, same as an XK 120. I wonder if there are any 12" alfins; /html/fot/1998-06/msg00198.html (11,063 bytes)

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