- 21. RE: GRANDPA DONE REAL GOOD (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:18:18 -0500
- Having had the opportunity to watch Bill accomplish this feat last weekend at IRP, I'd like to second this salute. Now Bill, about that concrete wall at the side of the track where one enters the fro
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00057.html (8,520 bytes)
- 22. RE: Six Hour Relay Race (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 13:58:24 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF1C95.85842CC0 Bravo! Reminds me of my own son watching me when I was racing. He was just a baby in 1990, but was there to see me win the SCCA EP national championship at the run
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00087.html (12,847 bytes)
- 23. RE: A Show of hands... (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 08:23:28 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF1EC2.39148CC0 Nick, I raced a TR-4A IRS for 24 years in SCCA (DP until 1976, then EP). I got a blueprint for aluminum rear hubs from Group 44. Had a local machine shop machine t
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00105.html (12,629 bytes)
- 24. RE: Reciprocating mass (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 07:08:09 -0500
- Paul, Last night I weighed a TR-3/4 connecting rod with caps and bolts, 86MM piston with rings, gudgeon pin and snap rings. The total weight of all of this is 1,658.7 grams. I just grabbed a rod at r
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00125.html (8,211 bytes)
- 25. RE: Prints for R/Hubs (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 07:20:18 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF1F82.90BA4800 David, send me your address and I'd be happy to send you a copy of the drawing I got from Group44 in 1976 for the IRS rear hub. This drawing is for a hub which use
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00126.html (11,991 bytes)
- 26. RE: piston weights (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 07:51:18 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF2050.105F0B40 Paul, just as a point of reference, when I used stock rods in my race car, I would lighten the rods (and pistons, and use lighter 'gudgeon' pins). I don't recall t
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00129.html (15,199 bytes)
- 27. RE: None (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 08:43:03 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF2057.4AA2F3A0 Here's what I have done. Find a good machine shop which can machine the block, with liners installed, to a consistent flat surface (leave the figure 8 gaskets in).
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00132.html (12,131 bytes)
- 28. Weight of revolving mass (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 06:44:27 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF210F.E3D9EFC0 Paul, further to our earlier discussion..... Last night, just for fun, I decided to weigh one of my old lightened rods, and compare it to a stock rod (these are TR
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00143.html (13,258 bytes)
- 29. RE: figure 8 gaskets (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 06:56:41 -0500
- can't different side to side / front to back , so a shim will not be effective. And decking the block with liners in place is difficult as they tend to 'rock' as the stone goes by. Just something els
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00144.html (9,106 bytes)
- 30. RE: figure 8 gaskets (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 10:23:46 -0500
- Bill, I guess, theoretically, you could 'custon fit' the thickness of the gasket to the heighth of the liner to get each liner protruding the correct amount. This would require having various thickne
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00148.html (8,072 bytes)
- 31. Virus (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 08:56:30 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF21EB.7F2C3CE0 I have encountered a virus on my PC, called the WIN95 SPACEFILLER. This is apparently a virus which is spreading rapidly. I have a virus detection software on my P
- /html/fot/1999-10/msg00157.html (8,814 bytes)
- 32. TR-6 Throttle Linkage Bushings (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 07:03:49 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BEF448.24A88880 I purchased a set of supposedly stock plastic accelerator shaft bushings for a TR-6 I am working on. These are the bushings that support the shaft where it goes th
- /html/fot/1999-09/msg00000.html (8,757 bytes)
- 33. TR-6 Accelerator Shaft Bushings (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 08:51:55 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BEFF57.909564E0 Success!!! Following the advice of many FOT's who responded to my recent request for advice on installing TR-6 accelerator shaft bushings, I got them successfully
- /html/fot/1999-09/msg00058.html (9,981 bytes)
- 34. RE: SU carb piston lifts. (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:16:30 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BEFF84.EA497080 I had a similar situation the first time I ran my TR-4 engine on the dyno. We ended up running the dashpots 'dry' (actually took out the rod and damper all togethe
- /html/fot/1999-09/msg00065.html (11,599 bytes)
- 35. Paul Richardson - Recognition (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:34:22 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF003F.CE354340 One of our FOT members, Paul Richardson, was recognized in an article in the Fall issue of Moss Motoring magazine. In his article, John Sprinzel talks about about
- /html/fot/1999-09/msg00070.html (9,388 bytes)
- 36. TR-4 through TR-6 Gearbox Housings? (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:38:21 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF0059.83E25200 Does anyone have any old TR-4 through TR-6 (i.e. 4-speed synchro) gearbox housings that they would like to sell. I would prefer ones that have good thrust surfaces
- /html/fot/1999-09/msg00071.html (9,421 bytes)
- 37. RE: The 'TWIN FLUX CYCLOTRON' (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 07:20:11 -0500
- Paul, I enjoyed your informative technical dissertation on this extremely important new technology. However, I believe this phenomenon could have been predicted had someone computed the voltage input
- /html/fot/1999-09/msg00115.html (11,517 bytes)
- 38. RE: TR4/6 Brake Calipers On TR4 (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 16:14:57 -0500
- If your TR-3A has the early calipers (i.e the pads are retained by hold down plates which are bolted to the caliper, NOT by pins, like the TR-6) then you will also need to change the rotors. When the
- /html/fot/1999-09/msg00124.html (7,783 bytes)
- 39. New FOT Member (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 15:00:32 -0500
- -- =_NextPart_000_01BF09C2.38866360 The attached note is from Pete Gates, long time Triumph racer. I would like to nominate Pete for membership in FOT. Mark B. can you get him added to our astute gro
- /html/fot/1999-09/msg00196.html (12,358 bytes)
- 40. Re: Swallow Doretti (score: 1)
- Author: Jack Wheeler <jwheeler@robus.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:16:46 -0500
- There is a gentleman named Tom Householder who lives in Lancaster, OH who has essentially cornered the market on Swallow Dorettis in the U.S. Last time I was over at his place (early 1990's) he had 6
- /html/fot/1999-08/msg00104.html (7,255 bytes)
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