- 21. Re: supercharge (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:13:09 -0600
- Yeah, well- just remember that the Ford Fairmont made R&T's "10 Best Cars for a Changing World" list in 1979 or so. To show the depth of their ignorance, they later wrote, after testing a Chevy Citat
- /html/morgans/1999-12/msg00120.html (8,445 bytes)
- 22. Re: cotter key for rear axel (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 10:13:30 -0600
- When you talk about the threads being "handed," are you talking about wire wheel hubs? I don't think that the axle to hub nuts and matching threads are handed- at least none of my LBC's are. In any
- /html/morgans/1999-12/msg00140.html (7,072 bytes)
- 23. Re: Brake Drum removal (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:19:10 -0600
- You would not have wire wheels, per chance? On disk wheel cars, the brake drums slide over the wheel studs and are held in place with small screws. They can get away with this because the wheel stud
- /html/morgans/1999-12/msg00161.html (7,329 bytes)
- 24. Re: Backup Lights (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:56:45 -0600
- Ross and Phil, Jeez, and I thought the change from a Moss box would improve everything! On the Moss and most other old English trannies the reverse and OD switches are screwed though the top cover ov
- /html/morgans/1999-12/msg00163.html (7,346 bytes)
- 25. Re: Brake Drum removal (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 09:28:10 -0600
- I don't know if this was a response to my last post but in any case, I can appreciate the need for clarity. When I said that people leave out the grub screws, I was talking about the little flat-hea
- /html/morgans/1999-12/msg00176.html (8,719 bytes)
- 26. Re: removal of wheel (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 13:56:11 -0600
- If you would like to keep the "farm implement" theme going just grab you cutting torch and blow it off ;-) Unfortunately, it sounds like 16 inch Morgan wheels are getting a bit thin on the ground so
- /html/morgans/1999-12/msg00180.html (10,062 bytes)
- 27. Re: Body/rear axle alignment - 70 Plus 8 (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 14:48:44 -0600
- Eureka! You have found her! Many an hour have been spent trying to locate your car by literally legions of Morgan historians. It is not well know that Morgan was eying the NASCAR circuit in the late
- /html/morgans/1999-11/msg00012.html (9,213 bytes)
- 28. Brake cleaning (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 10:36:04 -0600
- As most others, I would not reccomend applying your brakes until the disks glow as a method for cleaning the brake pads. However, the concept of heating your pads to drive out oil is not a new one. M
- /html/morgans/1999-11/msg00112.html (8,074 bytes)
- 29. RE: Brake cleaning (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 13:57:09 -0600
- I usually bury them in cat litter for a few days. GARY MARQUIS / FAT BASSET GARAGE Chico California USA <<<< Gary, I don't know what it says about my childhood that I had easier access to a torch th
- /html/morgans/1999-11/msg00118.html (7,198 bytes)
- 30. Re: brake pedal travel - repost (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 09:03:53 -0500
- When you say that the mechanical linkage is at the limit, do you mean as long as possible or as short as possible? You are having classic symptoms of insufficient master cylinder piston return. When
- /html/morgans/1999-10/msg00017.html (8,243 bytes)
- 31. Re: Oil Matters (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 09:38:57 -0500
- John and others, I could not agree more. Personally, I find the whole concept of "classic" oils and using straight weight because that is what they are built to use hard to comprehend. Oil is one of
- /html/morgans/1999-10/msg00169.html (9,675 bytes)
- 32. Re: Cosmoline (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:50:37 -0500
- Cosmoline- which I have probably misspelled badly- is a very low grade grease that was/is used by the military and others to protect their metal stuff from rust during shipment. Typically the item i
- /html/morgans/1999-10/msg00175.html (7,149 bytes)
- 33. Re: heat gauge (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 08:09:35 -0500
- I can't help you with the temp gauge- all of my British cars use the ether vapor pressure type. As far as the overflow goes, if you have filled your radiator to the very top, the car will belch some
- /html/morgans/1999-10/msg00220.html (7,786 bytes)
- 34. Re: Testing a Voltage regulator (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 10:27:40 -0500
- I second John's reccomendation of Glenn's. I found an early-seventies Glenn's foreign car repair manual at a used bood store. It contains about five pages explaining the differences between Lucas con
- /html/morgans/1999-10/msg00222.html (7,096 bytes)
- 35. Car temps (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:14:11 -0500
- Remember that modern iron runs hotter than the old stuff. This improves emissions. On a 90's car, the fully warm temp should probably bounce between 195 F and 215 F or so with about 230 F being the h
- /html/morgans/1999-09/msg00132.html (6,655 bytes)
- 36. Re: Racing insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "William Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:11:59 -0500
- Just a historical note here- probably not useful in any practical sense. Back in the good old days of GP racing, (pre Bernie "F1") Rob Walker wrote the coverage for Road and Track. In one race Ken Ty
- /html/morgans/1999-09/msg00174.html (7,593 bytes)
- 37. "P" knob (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 10:03:14 -0500
- If memory serves me correctly, the British "P" labeled knobs control the panel light brightness via rheostat. Many are disconnected since even at their brightest the panel lights live up to the "Dim,
- /html/morgans/1999-08/msg00180.html (6,713 bytes)
- 38. Two pack, or not two pack... -Reply (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:31:05 -0500
- Check out this website: http://www.autobodystore.com The autobodystore is a website dedicated to helping amateurs do auto painting and bodywork. If you don't find the answer you want on the website,
- /html/morgans/1999-08/msg00278.html (7,547 bytes)
- 39. RE: lubrication -Reply (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:26:57 -0500
- Phil and others, Gear lube uses a different viscosity scale than engine oil. 75W gear oil is much thinner than the 75W engine oil preferred by many Harley riders. 90W gear oil about the same as 40W e
- /html/morgans/1999-08/msg00328.html (8,640 bytes)
- 40. Re: electric fans -Reply (score: 1)
- Author: "Bill Eastman" <william.eastman@medtronic.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:26:30 -0500
- Scott, I don't think that they clamp to the fins. Rather they are connected by thin plastic anchors extending through the fins to a round base on the other side. You have to force the anchors through
- /html/morgans/1999-08/msg00350.html (7,664 bytes)
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