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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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