- 1. vacuum line needed (score: 1)
- Author: "Ryan Smith" <shmitty99@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 14:21:06 PDT
- I was tinkering around this afternoon and I noticed that the vacuum line going to the distributor has melted on the thermostat housing. I'm not sure if its fused or not. My car has several reasons to
- /html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00317.html (7,424 bytes)
- 2. Re: vacuum line needed (score: 1)
- Author: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:49:56 -0400
- A FUSED vacuum line? That Prince of Darkness is a tricky devil! What amperage??? :) You mean melted? Then blow in one end and see if it passes air. If it's melted _through_ at the "fused" point, cut
- /html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00319.html (8,584 bytes)
- 3. 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)
- 4. Re: vacuum line needed (score: 1)
- Author: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:30:29 -0400
- Interesting. The rubber vacuum line on my Spit had been installed by the DPO, and I replaced it just for General Procedure during my restoration (again, because the long plastic line in question was
- /html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00341.html (7,989 bytes)
- 5. 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)
- 6. Re: vacuum line needed (score: 1)
- Author: "Victor B. Michael" <vmichael@tibco.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:48:35 -0500
- THAT'S IT! I'm going metric. :) -- Regards, Vic -- Victor Michael | vmichael@tibco.com Systems Engineer | Voice (312) 214-2327 TIBCO Finance Technology Inc. | Pager (800) 759-8888 CTS, Chicago | Pin#
- /html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00346.html (7,635 bytes)
- 7. 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)
- 8. Re: vacuum line needed (score: 1)
- Author: "Brad Kahler" <Brad.Kahler@141.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 22:05:08 -0500
- Does anyone know of a source for the original steel vacuum lines used on the Mk1 spitfires? I've looked around but have never been able to locate any. Thanks "Taxation WITH representation isn't so ho
- /html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00362.html (7,906 bytes)
- 9. Re: vacuum line needed (score: 1)
- Author: "ralph.jannelli" <ralph.jannelli@mci2000.com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 18:14:32 -0400
- Brad - As far as I know these are not available. I searched far and wide for one when restoring my MKII Spit. I even called a listing in Hemming's motor news that advertised they could match brake an
- /html/spitfires/1998-08/msg00391.html (8,839 bytes)
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