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41. Road Spring Compresser (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 06:52:51 +0000
I at last got my road spring compresser after moaning at parcelforce a lot. Anyway, I decompressed the spring shock unit, re-compressed with new shock and bushed, and the spring just didn't sit prope
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00167.html (6,701 bytes)

42. Re: Leaning Rear Wheel (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 14:54:08 +0000
Which ever say you need to check the suspension geopetry on the back. I thinks it's a case of measuring the axils with a ruler. Also mention you will need a new set of tyers if the old ones been driv
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00178.html (8,037 bytes)

43. Re: Engine side plates (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 06:32:50 +0000
Ditto, but I don't have an exscuse for not spending my cash on the cardboard ones, apartfrom there is not cash to spend. -- James Carpenter Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00221.html (6,576 bytes)

44. Re: brake light problems (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 08:11:58 +0000
Turn on the Ignition, unplug the wires on the brake switch stick um together. If the brake lights come on then it must be the switch or contacts. Clean the contacts with somthing, somthing with phosp
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00248.html (6,871 bytes)

45. Rear Wheel Slave Cylinder (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:29:17 +0000
Whell, it turns out that there seems to be a shortage of new RWSC's for Spitfires. I have had one on order for weeks, it's on back order with the company that's supplying the place where I am getting
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00253.html (7,353 bytes)

46. Re: 5-speed production Spitfires..?? (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 07:38:52 +0000
You meen with the MG Midget (posibly Spitfire are they the same) single rail 4 speed, being the same as a Marina/Ital Gear box, hence it the 5 speed convert is a streight swap for the Marina/Ital it
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00265.html (7,610 bytes)

47. Re: spitfire ignition timing (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 07:42:46 +0000
Your vacume retard unit is broken. It should give loads of retard when your idleing, and then cut out when ever you need power. So at idle it's 2deg ATDC, as soon as you start to use power it cuts ou
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00266.html (7,317 bytes)

48. Re: Rear Wheel Slave Cylinder (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 07:59:32 +0000
I went to the my local classic's garage, enquiring about an MOT. The said they send there MOT's almost all Spitfires and MG's to the garage 300Yrds from my house, so I recon I could even push my car
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00267.html (7,580 bytes)

49. Re: Valences, valences and more valences (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 11:19:23 +0000
I am thinking about makeing myself some new front vailances out of aluminium. I was thinking though if I make a paper template to bend the aluminuum into shape do I draw the fold line for the outside
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00272.html (7,822 bytes)

50. Re: GT6's in a junkyard in CT (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 11:30:50 +0000
I think it's time for you to invest in a hammer and dolly:-> James Carpenter Yellow '79 spit wired by a trained marmot
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00273.html (6,697 bytes)

51. Re: KONI Shock Installation - Bulging Top Bushing (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 07:08:19 +0000
That's perfectrly OK. At the moment it's only being held together by that bush. The bush being compressed is the one that takes the shock out when the shock asorber hit's its maximum extension limit.
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00326.html (8,028 bytes)

52. Re: Sad engine rebuild. (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 07:11:21 +0000
Been there done that, managed to get the engin re-built, in the car, running when I realised there wern't much power. Needless to say I soon realised I have a 13/60 herald block 1300 pistons and cran
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00327.html (6,611 bytes)

53. Re: vacuum line needed (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 07:42:50 +0000
I have got the propper hard hose new from my local moterist center before. The ones you get on the Spitfires apper on most brittish car's I have seen. I tryed replaceing my vacume hose on my Metro wi
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00328.html (7,331 bytes)

54. Re: Trunnion re-assembly grease (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:39:43 +0000
Went through the same question, coulden't find any zink based greese. I think it's designed to corrode instead of your bolt, so what I descided was to re-grease it every year with lithium greese. --
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00331.html (7,061 bytes)

55. Re: Failing overdrive (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 12:20:39 +0000
It works by locking a cup on one of two different faces. You don't mesh in and out any gears at all. All you do is push the disk that the gears are on back or forward a bit. When it's back it couples
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00335.html (7,899 bytes)

56. Re: vacuum line needed (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:41:19 +0000
I meen the replace ment was a rubber one. The original plastic ones are hard from new, I have a new one. They are very thin walled hard plastic with rubber bit's on the end, 3/16" accross. The rubber
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00342.html (7,670 bytes)

57. Re: Trunnion re-assembly grease (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:36:05 +0000
I can't remember my chemestry that well, so I could not say, but what you need is a metal that will rust instead of the iron in the steel. So it has to have a bigger Hydrogen Cell voltage. Here is wh
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00347.html (7,402 bytes)

58. Re: vacuum line needed (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 14:40:27 +0000
Probably because I was working in Metric, covering to this imperial system so as not to confuse everyone, and ended up making a dogs breakfast of it. -- James Carpenter Yellow '79 spit wired by a tra
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00354.html (7,176 bytes)

59. Rear Wheel Slave Cylinder (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 06:42:29 +0000
Just spotted this after I got my replacement right hand rear wheel cylinder matched from the old. Right hand side cylinder is 5/8" my replacement as well. Left hand side is 11/16", this is shot as we
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00407.html (7,108 bytes)

60. Re: Spitfire Gearbox Woes (score: 1)
Author: James <james.carpenter@ukaea.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 13:12:09 +0000
Speeking to the local garage owner neer where I am he donsen't recomend anything done by people like Rimmer. The reson 600 pounds for a re-built engin, it costs them 550 pounds for all the milling wo
/html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00416.html (7,495 bytes)

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