- 41. After OD (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2007 22:24:25 -0600
- I think I have the OD whipped for now. I wanted to inform the list of a situation that happens when you go out and turn on the heat in a shop that is otherwise unheated. The cold metal sweats and rus
- /html/spitfires/2007-01/msg00005.html (6,092 bytes)
- 42. Re: Changing throw-out bearing? (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:15:44 -0600
- Hey S1500, Get a nice set of drift punches and drive the old drift pin out and put the new drift pin in. Larry == This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register == http://www.vtr.org
- /html/spitfires/2007-01/msg00046.html (6,694 bytes)
- 43. [Spits] fan clutch (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 17:27:51 -0500
- I bought a new water pump for my Spitfire. It's a mongrel but I went with the 1977 large upright radiator and the clutch type fan. Before I mounted the clutch on the new water pump, I heated it up wi
- /html/spitfires/2007-08/msg00041.html (6,960 bytes)
- 44. Re: [Spits] Spitfire Header (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:17:15 -0500
- Thanks Bill. I now have for sale a nice European spec intake/exhaust setup for the late 1300 and 1500 Spitfires. Larry _______________________________________________ Spitfires mailing list Spitfires
- /html/spitfires/2007-08/msg00043.html (8,447 bytes)
- 45. Re: [Spits] fan clutch (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:07:30 -0500
- Hey Joe, That explains why a ford or chevy heats up driving thru mud, the ones with viscous couplers known as clutch fans anyway. So the improvement over fixed fans may not have been much of an impro
- /html/spitfires/2007-08/msg00047.html (7,504 bytes)
- 46. [Spits] Front swaybar (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:13:33 -0600
- Someone on ebay is selling 1" front swaybars. The first went for $127. Starting price $99. One of these on a stock swingspring Spitfire would cause what? Understeer? Larry ___________________________
- /html/spitfires/2007-12/msg00017.html (7,331 bytes)
- 47. Re: [Spits] Spitfire Leg Room (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:47:19 -0500
- IF you have the seat as far back as you can get it. Take the rubber pads off the pedals and wear thin racing shoes like the dude In Baltimore MD suggested. Larry _____________________________________
- /html/spitfires/2008-03/msg00034.html (8,745 bytes)
- 48. [Spits] First Start (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 23:04:22 -0500
- I started my Spit for the first time since the motor was rebuilt four or five years ago. Initially I tried by myself. I would crank it. It would start and die. I would turn down the idle screw and tr
- /html/spitfires/2008-05/msg00033.html (7,297 bytes)
- 49. [Spits] Vacuum port (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2008 15:55:01 -0500
- I have a Weber DCOE on my Spit. It has no vacuum port. The Cannon intake manifold has a plugged port on one runner. Can this port be used as a vacuum port for the distributor or a vacuum gauge or is
- /html/spitfires/2008-05/msg00035.html (6,592 bytes)
- 50. [Spits] Grommets (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:01:17 -0500
- I finished stripping down my Spifire tub last night. The heater had a mouse nest in the fan and a mud dobber nest in one hose. I found the steering column brace had almost pulled free of the firewall
- /html/spitfires/2008-08/msg00067.html (6,619 bytes)
- 51. [Spits] New battery box (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:58:01 -0500
- I drilled out all the spotwelds and got my old rusty battery box out. I drilled a little too far just one or two times. I had planned on drilling holes around the perimeter of the new battery box and
- /html/spitfires/2008-09/msg00033.html (7,188 bytes)
- 52. Re: [Spits] Dolly or Trailer (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:03:42 -0500
- Hi Todd, I hauled a Spitfire from Denver to NW Oklahoma on a dolly. I didn't have time to take out the driveshaft so I put the rear end on the dolly and put a bungee cord from the steering wheel to t
- /html/spitfires/2009-04/msg00012.html (7,912 bytes)
- 53. [Spits] Mount body (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:32:21 -0500
- I am about ready to set my '73 Spitfire body back on the refurbished frame. When I seperated the two, I was confidant I would remember where the two 1/4 inch thick aluminum spacers went. I don't reme
- /html/spitfires/2009-09/msg00040.html (6,461 bytes)
- 54. Re: [Spits] Still a few (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Vaughan <ljvaughan@pldi.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 20:34:43 -0500
- I'm still working on it. The frame and running gear is good to go. The body stripped, blasted and with body work that is driving me nuts, requires just a good paint, reassembly and interior to get on
- /html/spitfires/2011-03/msg00020.html (8,930 bytes)
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