- 61. RE: Throttle cable (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:04:34 -0800
- At first I thought Steve was talking about a round thin disk about the size and thickness of a quarter welded near the bottom of the arm the cable attaches to. There is a small nut welded to the bel
- /html/tigers/2005-03/msg00275.html (8,873 bytes)
- 62. Re: Sunbeams at Chateau Elan (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:57:18 -0800
- least one person on every block has a Tiger in LA and San Francisco.<<< Well..., here in Thousand Oaks, CA. (45 miles ouside L.A.) there is a guy three blocks away who has one (not on the list, neve
- /html/tigers/2005-03/msg00301.html (8,731 bytes)
- 63. Re: Fantasy Island!!!Some (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:44:55 -0800
- Hold on there Doc :-) . The Pacer is the Tigers distant step-brother. You know the Rootes, Chrysler, AMC family tree. Anyway, go to http://www.chez.com/pacer/eindex.htm (unfortunately you have to scr
- /html/tigers/2005-02/msg00001.html (8,147 bytes)
- 64. Re: Smity's (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:10:21 -0800
- Smitty's is a great place. My car was stored there by the previous owner and I consider it a real "Tiger Treasure" to have been there. You get the feeling that vertually every spare Rootes part is in
- /html/tigers/2005-02/msg00027.html (7,155 bytes)
- 65. Re: Seats (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:33:36 -0800
- Not sure if you would call then high end seats, but I have a set of Mitsubishi Eclipes seats (about early-mid 90's) to go into my Tiger. No rips, no tears, minimal wear under $35 for the two at Pick
- /html/tigers/2005-02/msg00045.html (7,867 bytes)
- 66. Re: High Gas Prices (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:57:03 -0800
- Even more amazing to me is that there are cars that get 50+ miles per gallon. How many bottles of Evian would you use if you walked those 50+ miles??? Regardless, I still remember a little Texaco sta
- /html/tigers/2005-02/msg00114.html (7,817 bytes)
- 67. Re: Carb gas leak (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:38:06 -0800
- I assume that you have pumped the pedal, the accelerator pump nozzles discharged gas, hitting the butterflys with fuel and then it leaked past play in the shaft. If the engine is not running it will
- /html/tigers/2005-02/msg00121.html (8,050 bytes)
- 68. Re: rear end stuff (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 11:49:42 -0800
- My end play was at .004 on my car before I took it apart. I was at a loss to find the end play shims so I used what I had considering the car probably had that setting from day one. When I put it ba
- /html/tigers/2005-02/msg00216.html (8,767 bytes)
- 69. Re: 260 cam specs at .050 inch (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:29:35 -0800
- As John Clark indicated yesterday it is difficult to know "Advertised"duration based on @ .050 lift. Many manufactures will state "Advertised" duration and yet even that is at an ambiguous .004 or ma
- /html/tigers/2005-02/msg00251.html (7,631 bytes)
- 70. Re: Radiator Overflow (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:39:52 -0800
- Frank (all), The Nissan 310 has about the smallest overflow bottle I've ever been able to find. It measures aprox. 3"X3"X8" (about the size of a cardboard, quart size milk container) and has a slide
- /html/tigers/2005-02/msg00393.html (7,646 bytes)
- 71. Re: EFI (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 22:06:25 -0800
- Paul Paretti has a EFI setup on his Tiger. It would be an insult to call it "homemade," but it is something he built as a very nice, one off piece. I don't remember all the perticulars, but it has a
- /html/tigers/2005-01/msg00052.html (7,649 bytes)
- 72. Tigers on TV (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 21:52:17 -0800
- For those who look for Tigers in the public: Not sure if this is old news or not, but Shelby's wife was on Car Crazy (Speed Channel) and related that the first time she heard the Shelby name was when
- /html/tigers/2005-01/msg00150.html (6,485 bytes)
- 73. Re: rear end repair (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 15:32:23 -0800
- I did the same things you did with sealant on the gaskets, shims (very light on the shims), backing plate, backing plate reinforcing ring and seal housing. I even used sealant on the bolts. My car i
- /html/tigers/2005-01/msg00162.html (7,391 bytes)
- 74. Re: The National Tiger Club (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:38:04 -0800
- Yes. Might I add water seeks its own level too. There are great ideas, but usually less than effective executions. Tom Hall has pointed that out. Efforts usually default to those with great aspirati
- /html/tigers/2005-01/msg00244.html (7,644 bytes)
- 75. Re: carroll shelby & Tigers (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:35:16 -0800
- I was not at the current T.U. events where Carroll spoke. I'm curious to know his perspective on the Shelby name/engineering as it relates today. The reason I say "today" is because it seems from wha
- /html/tigers/2005-01/msg00272.html (8,492 bytes)
- 76. Re: TIGER DAIMLER MYSTERY (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:30:00 -0800
- If any on the list were at the British Car Show in Ventura, CA. in 2004 (and likely other years too) there was a V-8 Hemi Daimler. It looked a lot like the SP250..., I think. Problem was that I too w
- /html/tigers/2005-01/msg00323.html (7,353 bytes)
- 77. Re: Fantasy Island!!!Some (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:11:31 -0800
- Being the owner of such motoring finery as a 1963 Rambler American and a 1961 Corvair station wagon I can state that those guys all have proclamations of how fabulous these cars are. Some of it is ba
- /html/tigers/2005-01/msg00383.html (11,318 bytes)
- 78. Re: Chrysler Tiger (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:49:33 -0800
- Being the owner of a 1973 Valiant daily driver with a 318, I just measured. The outer head to head width of the engine is 20-1/2". Using the narrowest of exhaust manifolds that Chrysler offered you
- /html/tigers/2005-01/msg00402.html (8,017 bytes)
- 79. Re: Chrysler Tiger (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:04:51 -0800
- Nothing against Paul for providing the site, but my 318 and tape measure don't concur with the sizes posted. On the 318 the outside of the heads actually angle back inward as they rise off the block
- /html/tigers/2005-01/msg00406.html (8,250 bytes)
- 80. Re: Chrysler Tiger...Disclainers... (score: 1)
- Author: "Tom Witt" <wittsend@jps.net>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:44:51 -0800
- My apology if what I wrote came off as offensive. When I stated "Nothing against Paul for providing the site, ....," I meant simply that. You provided the list with a link and that the presumed erro
- /html/tigers/2005-01/msg00422.html (10,919 bytes)
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