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181. Re: [Spits] ID this part? (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <zoboherald@aol.com>; Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:07:36 -0400; The cars being brought down this week, so I can't verify the engine number at the moment, but the PO said it matched the commision number: FC24119... ==AM== While it's not unheard of, engine numbers; /html/spitfires/2008-08/msg00032.html (7,592 bytes)
182. Re: [Spits] Recommendations: dash / body parts / welding (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <zoboherald@aol.com>; Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:52:17 -0400; Thanks for all the feedback, much appreciated! I posted several more pics, including engine compartment, etc. http://www.meant2bdriven.com/?q=image/tid/1 Looks like it's the original engine: FC25036,; /html/spitfires/2008-08/msg00052.html (8,482 bytes)
183. Re: [Spits] Rear Outer dive shafts ( half shafts in UK speak) (score: 1): Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com; Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:06:29 EDT; So my question is has anyone replaced a yoke on a drive shaft? It's a splinned fit with what looks like a roll pin holding it in place. If this can be done I can probably pick up some used drive shaf; /html/spitfires/2008-09/msg00040.html (8,388 bytes)
184. Re: [Spits] rear brake hoses (score: 1): Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com; Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:26:57 EDT; Yes, that's right. Date of registration is irrelevant, the long shaft models weren't marketed in the UK until (I think) March 1973, but were built from October 1972, Presumably that also applies to F; /html/spitfires/2008-09/msg00061.html (9,088 bytes)
185. Re: [Spits] Rear spring GT6 (score: 1): Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com; Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:29:52 EST; The Spitbits website lists a different part number for early Spitfires, swing-spring Spitfires, Mk2 and early Mk3 GT6, and Mk1 and later Mk3 GT6. Certainly the GT6 spring is not the same as the Spitf; /html/spitfires/2008-12/msg00026.html (9,248 bytes)
186. Re: [Spits] Rear spring GT6 (score: 1): Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com; Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:35:31 EST; ...don't mind goin' back to the current spring, but my issue is the serious negative camber on the driver side(right hand drive). I suspected it was due to a worn out spring? ....Oh and apparently th; /html/spitfires/2008-12/msg00027.html (9,112 bytes)
187. Re: [Spits] Mk III Seat diaphragms (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <zoboherald@aol.com>; Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:15:14 -0500; I need to replace diaphragms in a Mk III Spitfire with Highback seats. I can't find these anywhere. Rimmer Bros. say they are no longer available and offer a strap kit.? ? TR-6 diaphragms are readily; /html/spitfires/2009-01/msg00028.html (7,727 bytes)
188. Re: [Spits] >>NASS GT6 Spit gearbox interchangeable (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <zoboherald@aol.com>; Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:09:23 -0500; I'm wanting to know if the GT6 & Spit gearbox are interchangeable? Is it just a matter of swapping the bell housing? I have a GT6 gearbox that someone wants for their Herald. ==AM== Basically, no. It; /html/spitfires/2009-01/msg00036.html (7,492 bytes)
189. Re: [Spits] Dolly or Trailer (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <zoboherald@aol.com>; Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 10:07:51 -0400; U-Haul used to rent dual axle trailers. If loaded properly it should tow fine. Andy Mace and I used to tow with a rather basic single axle trailer with no complaints either. (Andy even did a hair rai; /html/spitfires/2009-04/msg00007.html (8,412 bytes)
190. Re: [Spits] (late) Spitfire sighting: Top Gear (score: 1): Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com; Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:03:44 EDT; Jim, there was a least one purple Spit. Would it have been called Damson? ==AM== Damson is more like what one might call Maroon or possibly a "Plum" color. The car in question is Magenta. The colors; /html/spitfires/2009-09/msg00021.html (8,528 bytes)
191. Re: [Spits] Le Mans-style bonnet stripes; (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <zoboherald@aol.com>; Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:09:52 -0400; ? Back at the Asheville VTR convention, I think it was, we did a nose? stripe on Bob Bownes' green GT6 with a rattle can of red, some masking? tape and most likely some malt based alcoholic beverages; /html/spitfires/2009-09/msg00029.html (7,398 bytes)
192. Re: [Spits] plastic tranny covers (score: 1): Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com; Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:34:54 EDT; The starters are on different sides, so the clearance bulge is different. ==AM== ...AND the hole for the shift lever is slightly further back on the GT6 (and Vitesse)! --Andy Mace *Mrs Irrelevant: Oh; /html/spitfires/2009-10/msg00038.html (8,021 bytes)
193. Re: [Spits] Bushings (score: 1): Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com; Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:59:12 EDT; On the spring I have tried using a bolt - socket that that bushing will fit into - bushing - socket about the same size as the bushing then a nut and tightening it. I didn't get anywhere. I don't hav; /html/spitfires/2009-10/msg00065.html (8,069 bytes)
194. Re: [Spits] Early Spitfire Hubcaps (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <zoboherald@aol.com>; Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:37:56 -0500; --Original Message-- Hey Guys, I came across a very nice set of four early Spitfire hubcaps. You know the ones that say "SPITFIRE". They cost me $182 but they are all pristine. Just a few marks & scr; /html/spitfires/2010-01/msg00003.html (8,496 bytes)
195. Re: [Spits] Early Spitfire Hubcaps (score: 1): Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com; Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 21:02:06 EST; Yes that looks like the hubs. On a 69 huh? That's good info. Probably more of those around than the very early Spitfires. Now the 70's had another style of hub cap, similar but w/o the two "Spitfire"; /html/spitfires/2010-01/msg00016.html (9,289 bytes)
196. Re: [Spits] Spit steering wheel/shaft questions (score: 1): Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com; Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 21:09:57 EST; What year(s) was the "banjo" steering wheel standard equipment? (see pic at _http://www.carcentric.com/spitfiresteeringwheelCU.jpg_ (http://www.carcentric.com/spitfiresteeringwheelCU.jpg) ) ==AM== I'; /html/spitfires/2010-01/msg00017.html (7,933 bytes)
197. Re: [Spits] [TR] Amicale Spitfires (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <zoboherald@aol.com>; Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 23:08:20 -0400; I hope they provide an English translated site, I can't read French...it's like they have a different word for *everything*. ==AM== According to babelfish.altavista.com translator, that word is "tout; /html/spitfires/2010-03/msg00029.html (8,022 bytes)
198. Re: [Spits] Whitewall tires for GT6? (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <zoboherald@aol.com>; Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:22:12 -0400; --Original Message-- Did they ever put whitewalls on GT6's? ==AM== They sure did, at least on the US cars. One example, for the 1970 model year: http://www.triumph-brochures.be/popup.php?foto=folderh; /html/spitfires/2010-08/msg00004.html (7,672 bytes)
199. Re: [Spits] Rear spring with too much arch (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <zoboherald@aol.com>; Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:21:55 -0400; The spring doesn't "care" how wide the rear track is, since the vertical links pivot on their trunnions -- or SHOULD pivot on their trunnions. Perhaps seized trunnion bushes in the vertical link/hub; /html/spitfires/2010-08/msg00006.html (7,797 bytes)
200. [Spits] early Spitfire OD column switch location (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <zoboherald@aol.com>; Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:40:52 -0400; A question for anyone with an original OD installation (particularly those with the last "O" in the commission number) in their Spitfire 4 or Mk2: on which side of the steering column is the OD switc; /html/spitfires/2010-08/msg00024.html (8,110 bytes)

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