- 21. Re: [Spits] Recommendations: dash / body parts / welding (score: 1)
- Author: mark.jones@exxonmobil.com
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:06:52 -0400
- Well, it's not the cheapest welder, but I have a Hobart 135, 120V, with gas connections, and it worked great this past year welding in all the new panels on my 80 Spitfire 1500. The Hobart 135 has lo
- /html/spitfires/2008-08/msg00046.html (7,630 bytes)
- 22. Re: [Spits] Spitfires Digest, Vol 2, Issue 141 (score: 1)
- Author: mark.jones@exxonmobil.com
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:39:03 -0400
- I don't see anything odd about that HS2 carb setup; could be because I took part in the 48 hr rebuild at the VTR NATC last week and it was a 64 Spitfire that we rebuilt. http://natc2008.shutterfly.c
- /html/spitfires/2008-08/msg00053.html (8,956 bytes)
- 23. Re: [Spits] Triumphs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 405 (score: 1)
- Author: mark.jones@exxonmobil.com
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:11:46 -0400
- No, the Opus distributor can't be retrofitted to points, sorry. When my Spitfire's Opus distributor failed a couple years ago I fitted a Crane ignition and have been happy ever since. There is of cou
- /html/spitfires/2008-08/msg00057.html (7,212 bytes)
- 24. Re: [Spits] Pertronix Failure (score: 1)
- Author: mark.jones@exxonmobil.com
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:29:42 -0400
- Unfortunately the plate doesn't have the holes in it for a points set-up since it was never intended to have points mounted to it. Mark 80 Spitfire 1500 Corunna, ON Bob, I don't see why not.? As long
- /html/spitfires/2008-08/msg00059.html (6,740 bytes)
- 25. Re: [Spits] cleaning electrical bullet connectors (score: 1)
- Author: mark.jones@exxonmobil.com
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:31:11 -0400
- In terms of cleaning the lucar connector sleeves, there is a great lucar connector cleaning brush made by GEM Enterprises, www.gem-enterprises.net/page3.html. I have been using one of these brushes f
- /html/spitfires/2008-08/msg00068.html (8,191 bytes)
- 26. Re: [Spits] Grommets (score: 1)
- Author: mark.jones@exxonmobil.com
- Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:14:23 -0400
- I attended VTR's NATC in Ypsilanti a couple weeks ago and TRF was there pushing the flesh. They of course had a limited display but they did have a large assortment of rubber grommets and plugs there
- /html/spitfires/2008-08/msg00069.html (7,692 bytes)
- 27. Re: [Spits] cleaning electrical bullet connectors (score: 1)
- Author: mark.jones@exxonmobil.com
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:38:14 -0400
- That would make it rather hard to separate the bonnet from the car without cutting wires. Mark 73 MGBGT 76 TR7 80 Spitfire ..and if your don't care about originality, just function; then solder the w
- /html/spitfires/2008-08/msg00080.html (8,110 bytes)
- 28. Re: [Spits] cleaning electrical bullet connectors (score: 1)
- Author: mark.jones@exxonmobil.com
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:59:20 -0400
- While true, you don't have to take the bonnet off too often, eliminating connectors by soldering wires together just seems a bit drastic to me; maybe because I have been fortunate to have had only mi
- /html/spitfires/2008-08/msg00081.html (9,984 bytes)
- 29. Re: [Spits] Gauge gaskets (score: 1)
- Author: mark.jones@exxonmobil.com
- Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:34:22 -0400
- Try: http://www.britcot.com/ for the O-rings you are looking for Mark 73 MGBGT, 76 TR7, 80 Spitfire I tore apart my gauges over the weekend to clean them up only to find that the rubber gaskets hold
- /html/spitfires/2008-10/msg00033.html (7,093 bytes)
- 30. Re: [Spits] Headrest Foam (score: 1)
- Author: mark.jones@exxonmobil.com
- Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:16:25 -0500
- Hi Bob, When I rebuilt my seats a couple years ago my wife restuffed the headrests using pieces from a sleeping bag foam pad; the blue ones you find in the sporting good section of Walmart and the li
- /html/spitfires/2009-01/msg00033.html (7,378 bytes)
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