- 21. Restoration project (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 21:14:13 -0400
- Derek, It sounds to me like you have come on to a great find. It may never be a high priced museum piece, but it sure sounds like it is worth resurecting. The early 289 should be a direct bolt in rep
- /html/tigers/1999-10/msg00295.html (7,028 bytes)
- 22. 100K list fee (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 19:48:34 -0400
- Mike, I am pretty sure that the 100K was a joke, but to the best of my knowledge the request for funds to support the list servers are legitamite, the name of the person requesting funds is the right
- /html/tigers/1999-10/msg00296.html (6,464 bytes)
- 23. VIN plate (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 19:43:23 -0400
- Gosh Peter I hope you realized what a can of worms you just opened. Many of the folks on this list have a great concern that the original vin plate be attached with the original rivets, & here you wa
- /html/tigers/1999-10/msg00420.html (7,241 bytes)
- 24. negative camber (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:53:38 -0400
- Negative camber within reason, mabey 1 1/2 degrees, will not have a great affect on steering effort. I suspect that the pile of shims in your front end also give you a lot of positive caster, that wi
- /html/tigers/1999-09/msg00120.html (6,747 bytes)
- 25. cold air (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:19:51 -0400
- No, this is not an air conditioning letter, the big season for AC has passed here in Michigan. I have been noticing the last couple days, we have had a bit of a cold snap here & my Tiger loves it. It
- /html/tigers/1999-09/msg00193.html (8,124 bytes)
- 26. Hammer Time (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 20:32:42 -0400
- After having put a lot of axles together over the years, I would not be too concerned it the axle needed some assistance from the "Polish Press" ( My politically correct apologies to any Poles out th
- /html/tigers/1999-09/msg00194.html (6,678 bytes)
- 27. Caricatures (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 21:16:29 -0400
- Anyone who has not seen the Sunbeam caricatures by Colin Anderson should check out www.sunbeam.org.au/models/index.html Doug Leithauser
- /html/tigers/1999-09/msg00332.html (6,311 bytes)
- 28. oversteer (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 23:29:51 -0400
- . I guess we can learn from this experience that TR-4s oversteer. ;-) Solid axle TR-4 or IRS TR-4A? Doug Leithauser
- /html/tigers/1999-08/msg00466.html (6,585 bytes)
- 29. Re: oversteer (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:25:15 -0400
- I love my Sunbeam, but I am not so blinded by love that I do not see that the Tigers & Alpines have the most collision sensitive fuel tanks that I have seen on a semi-modern car. By comparison the M
- /html/tigers/1999-08/msg00520.html (8,593 bytes)
- 30. Haggerty Auto Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:40:51 -0400
- My Tiger is covered by Haggarty, I have not had a claim, but it is an agreed value policy, I have $8000 coverage for about $95 per year here in Michigan.(no, my car is not one of those all original,
- /html/tigers/1999-07/msg00259.html (6,892 bytes)
- 31. rear sway bar (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 06:24:42 -0400
- Tim, I'd be hesitant to add a rear sway bar with an otherwise stock suspention, the car has a lot of rear roll stiffness already, that's why it's so easy to lift & spin the inside rear wheel in corne
- /html/tigers/1999-06/msg00077.html (7,206 bytes)
- 32. plug indexing, fried electrodes (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 06:35:50 -0400
- Were the mysterious fried spark plugs indexed? anything that prevents proper heat transfer from the plug to the cylinder head can cause the plug to overheat & burn up. If an indexing gasket does not
- /html/tigers/1999-06/msg00078.html (6,623 bytes)
- 33. communicate (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 07:52:52 -0400
- Anyone else able to recieve but not post to the list? read this; You are running you email system with HTML enabled. MJB has put a global filter on majordomo that will prevent HTML formatted mail fro
- /html/tigers/1999-06/msg00105.html (6,536 bytes)
- 34. steering play,shimmey (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:36:17 -0400
- Mark, 3/4" sounds like a problem to me, my car has almost no noticeable play, I think in the Tigers your hand on the wheel serves as the steering damper, & with that much play you can't dampen out th
- /html/tigers/1999-06/msg00156.html (6,778 bytes)
- 35. Tach hookup (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 07:28:14 -0400
- My tach (original, working, not fried) is connected to the distributor side of the coil. I've worked with a lot of different tachs & have never heard of connecting to the ballast resistor or the powe
- /html/tigers/1999-06/msg00163.html (7,258 bytes)
- 36. Tach hookup (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 20:57:00 -0400
- chuck & list; one of us is definately missing something. I have checked the hookup on my own car, it is connected to the distributor side of the coil. I'm just a dumb mechanic, not a rocket scientist
- /html/tigers/1999-06/msg00182.html (7,530 bytes)
- 37. Re: Tach hookup (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 06:50:21 -0400
- Darned interesting Bob, I had not considered a series circut, that would make sense, I just have not seen a tach setup as you describe. Now I'm wondering how mine is working the way it is wired. Doug
- /html/tigers/1999-06/msg00188.html (7,467 bytes)
- 38. Another Sunbeam on TV? (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 07:29:52 -0400
- I didn't see that one, but about a week ago I caught a few minutes of some sappy movie about firemen, and for a few seconde there was what sure appeared to be a primer gray Tiger or Alpine. I couldn'
- /html/tigers/1999-06/msg00243.html (6,809 bytes)
- 39. Horn ring (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:23:09 -0400
- The horn ring on my car has been broken on one side for about 25 years, & I'm getting tired on driving with 1 finger hooked around the ring to keep it from ratteling. I've made a couple of half-heart
- /html/tigers/1999-06/msg00259.html (6,864 bytes)
- 40. clear hooters (score: 1)
- Author: "Doug & Rett Leithauser" <dleit@mintcity.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:03:34 -0400
- thanks, the ring is off, nothing is broken. Doug Leithauser Doug, the center padded insert comes out by slipping a small knife blade or similar object between the center cap's outer edge (It's metal
- /html/tigers/1999-06/msg00279.html (6,499 bytes)
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