- 1. Re: Replacement gearbox (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 08:23:17 EST
- Does anyone know if an all synchro three rail gearbox from a MKIV Spitfire (round drive flange) can be used as a direct bolt in replacement for a MK2 gearbox? ==AM== Yes, it can, and you need do litt
- /html/spitfires/2005-12/msg00030.html (6,907 bytes)
- 2. intriguing auction on eBay: 1970 Spit/GT6 taillamp lenses (score: 1)
- Author: zoboherald@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:32:05 -0500
- For the purists out there: <http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8022578889 &sspagename=ADME%3AB%3AWNA%3AUS%3A112&sasel=&id=> Or go to eBay and search for item # 8022578889 -
- /html/spitfires/2005-12/msg00037.html (7,148 bytes)
- 3. Re: 1147 engine build (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 18:10:52 EST
- I am begining a rebuile of my 1147cc '66 spitfire engine.....I have access to a head for a 1300cc engine. My question(s) are what should I ask for at the machine shop? Should I use the 1300cc head? =
- /html/spitfires/2005-11/msg00004.html (7,316 bytes)
- 4. Re: Guide to Heralad and Vitesse (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 08:41:36 EST
- Can anyone tell me where to get a copy of the "Complete Guide to Triumph Herald and Vitesse: The Pictorial Guide to Correct Original Condition" by Mike Costigan? A friend of mine has lost his copy an
- /html/spitfires/2005-11/msg00031.html (7,588 bytes)
- 5. Re: GT6 caliper/rotor on Spitfire (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:03:11 EST
- I am wondering if anyone has used the GT6 caliper/rotor on an early model Spitfire. I have a 63 Spitfire/4 (Mk I) with the wider Mk III wheels. I once read that the GT6 rotors and calipers were large
- /html/spitfires/2005-11/msg00078.html (7,858 bytes)
- 6. Re: GT6 caliper/rotor on Spitfire (score: 1)
- Author: zoboherald@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:52:47 -0500
- My 4.5" Mk III wheels look exactly like my 3.5" Mk I wheels. That is why I like them. I can use my original style center hub caps and the car looks relatively original. So would this wheel be similar
- /html/spitfires/2005-11/msg00081.html (8,623 bytes)
- 7. Re: GT6 caliper/rotor on Spitfire (score: 1)
- Author: zoboherald@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 10:56:31 -0500
- ... Perhaps my Mk III 4.5" wheels are the same as these? (That is what mine look like.) ==AM== Oops! Hit SEND too soon. I did want to add that chances are your 4.5" wheels are the Dunlop wheel, with
- /html/spitfires/2005-11/msg00082.html (7,998 bytes)
- 8. Re: OH MY, it's a Herald! (score: 1)
- Author: zoboherald@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 12:02:02 -0400
- Guys, On the cover of the J. Crew October catalog is a Red Herald! Nice chick too! It is sitting along side a Morris Minor. Not positive since it on has a side view so it may be a Sports Six. A Trium
- /html/spitfires/2005-10/msg00024.html (7,236 bytes)
- 9. Re: Spitfire carb woes.... (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 19:50:45 EDT
- Previously on _spitfires@autox.team.net_ (mailto:spitfires@autox.team.net) : == == Old school, yea and usually correct (most elders are correct most of the time also), 95% of carb problems are electr
- /html/spitfires/2005-10/msg00068.html (7,914 bytes)
- 10. Re: Modifing Seat Frame for detachable Headrest (score: 1)
- Author: zoboherald@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:53:39 -0400
- I own a set of seat frame High Back (MKIV USA-1970-1973) and wish to modified them to Low-Back (MKIV 1973-1975 & 1500) In other words I am thinking of cutting the High Back headrest and install a Det
- /html/spitfires/2005-09/msg00051.html (8,235 bytes)
- 11. Re: [Fwd: 1147 carb issues] (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:09:45 -0400
- == Larry, I can't help much otherwise, but I looked at the Burlen web site. You're right in that they show the early Spitfire as "950cc" (which they must have picked up inadvertently from the early H
- /html/spitfires/2005-08/msg00020.html (6,941 bytes)
- 12. Re: Water temp gauge - reads hot (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 16:16:22 -0400
- == Ken, that's a typical old-time mechanic's "trick" that Joe relayed. Trouble is, there aren't so many old-time mechanics out there as there once were, and most manuals were written for such folk to
- /html/spitfires/2005-08/msg00021.html (7,723 bytes)
- 13. Re: Pour a can of oil for a dead homie.. (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 09:45:02 -0400
- == Hope everyone was ok. Get that car to a good body/frame shop, though! I've seen much worse straightened out. --Andy Mace
- /html/spitfires/2005-08/msg00079.html (7,175 bytes)
- 14. Re: Another one bites the dust (score: 1)
- Author: zoboherald@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:22:10 -0400
- I've been a long-time lurker here on the Spit list. I have a '69 Spitfire.... My Spit's damage: all the body work behind the cockpit except the trunk lid is mangled, it might have bent the rocker pan
- /html/spitfires/2005-08/msg00091.html (8,503 bytes)
- 15. Re: Essential tool (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:58:08 -0400
- == I can vouch for the exceptional quality and utility of this item, and I'm ever grateful to know that there is again a source for same. I once used one of these to fabricate a temporary gear lever
- /html/spitfires/2005-06/msg00001.html (7,453 bytes)
- 16. Re: vac. advance (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 22:10:16 EDT
- Would like to have some advice or a site where I can look it up as to what is the correct vac. advance for a Lucas distributor 25D model 40795, this unit will be installed in a 1959 T/R3A using 87 mm
- /html/spitfires/2005-06/msg00041.html (7,369 bytes)
- 17. RE: Pain in the... (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 09:30:41 -0400
- == Hard to say. I'm trying to picture what you mean by "spinning in a rather buckled like way"! Does the wheel itself wobble? Is it bent? Is the hub bent? Could the axle itself be bent? Is the u-join
- /html/spitfires/2005-05/msg00011.html (7,803 bytes)
- 18. RE: Pain in the... (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 11:22:49 -0400
- == Wow! Swapping hubs can be quite the chore...and almost impossible without the correct puller (i.e., you might well bend good hubs without said correct puller)! I'd start first with swapping just w
- /html/spitfires/2005-05/msg00012.html (8,582 bytes)
- 19. Re: FW: Pain in the... (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2005 09:31:44 -0400
- == Jarrod, if you can determine that it is just the hub that is bent, go ahead and beg, steal or borrow the correct puller and change the hub for a good one. Of course, if you happen across a good, c
- /html/spitfires/2005-05/msg00022.html (7,523 bytes)
- 20. Spitfire/Herald (and Triumph 10) outer rear wheel bearing (score: 1)
- Author: ZoboHerald@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 16:37:12 EDT
- I was asked: "I was doing so well with the TR10 until the left rear wheel bearing went last week. out. Know where I can get one?" Looking it up, I determined that, assuming this is the outer hub bear
- /html/spitfires/2005-05/msg00029.html (7,880 bytes)
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