- 1. RE: A modest proposal (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 10:43:35 -0700
- I think you should apologize by making a donation to Mark Bradakis' disk fund. Anyone who forwards this kind of expensive, destructive crap against all reason and sense should make amends in a more t
- /html/triumphs/1995-04/msg00191.html (6,966 bytes)
- 2. RE: TR-6 conversion (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 11:53:32 -0700 (MST)
- Before I reply, some ObApprobrium: EEEEEVIL!!! EEEEEEEEEEVIL!! (picture of hoary old bearded puritan pointing a trembling bony finger at malefactor) I've got the tar, who's going to bring the feather
- /html/triumphs/1995-04/msg00217.html (8,133 bytes)
- 3. RE: TR6 conversion (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 13:32:31 -0700 (MST)
- I've already exhausted my one permissible (self-imposed rule) reply to this topic, but one more thing needs to be asked: Are you entirely sure you've examined the options you have for keeping that en
- /html/triumphs/1995-04/msg00224.html (7,710 bytes)
- 4. RE: Judging accessories (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 15:21:20 -0700 (MST)
- How about these accessories? Surely no judge would frown on such appropriate add-ons as: FLOAT VALVE LOOSENER A cam-and-trip-hammer system which attaches to your right front wheel, and continuously b
- /html/triumphs/1995-04/msg00270.html (8,272 bytes)
- 5. Choke return on TR4 and TR4A? (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 1995 15:33:59 -0700 (MST)
- Do TR4s have some kind of tensioner to help push the choke? Since the Vitesse choke cable was unavailable I ordered a TR4 cable and cut it to length. Trouble is, this is a multistrand cable with lots
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00074.html (6,785 bytes)
- 6. Re: TR6 - Valve setting (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 13:59:27 -0700 (MST)
- There should be no problem turning the pulley by hand if the plugs are out (and the car is in neutral). If you're not fighting compression, then there should be no other source of resistance! I do re
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00214.html (7,498 bytes)
- 7. Soft top cover sources (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 13:23:29 -0700 (MST)
- I'm looking for a new soft top for my Vitesse. The one it came with is custom; good quality but not the correct design and a fairly unappealing off-white color. Has anyone found a good source of canv
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00244.html (7,257 bytes)
- 8. re: Getting my hood open/ another question (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Mon, 15 May 1995 13:50:43 -0700 (MST)
- Phew! I wouldn't have dared, myself. How exactly does one pry sheet metal while being careful not to warp it? Oh, well, if it worked... Would it be possible to reach the latch from under the car, us
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00267.html (7,378 bytes)
- 9. Triumph World (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 13:17:42 -0700 (MST)
- I'm surprised no-one's talking about the 1st issue of "Triumph World" magazine. If you haven't seen or heard of this yet it's a fairly substantial mag produced in the UK. By "substantial" I mean cons
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00345.html (7,748 bytes)
- 10. RE: Idle Speed (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 12:54:54 -0700 (MST)
- If one of your float chamber valves is stuck you will get this exact problem. You're sucking air through two carbs but fuel through only one. To compensate you've adjusted the mixture on the one that
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00372.html (7,322 bytes)
- 11. Re: Triumph World (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 13:27:01 -0700 (MST)
- There's a history of the Triumph company, first of three parts. Part 1 is VERY interesting for those of us who know little about the early years. There's a feature on the restoration and history of
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00375.html (8,067 bytes)
- 12. RE: Idle Speed (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 11:35:10 -0700 (MST)
- You'd think so, wouldn't you? My only explanation is the balance connection in the intake manifold; arguably enough fuel/air mixing went on in the manifold itself to get some fuel from the rear carb
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00393.html (7,604 bytes)
- 13. RE: Idle Speed redux (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Tue, 23 May 1995 12:00:31 -0700 (MST)
- If it's not a stuck float it could be that the dual-SU setup may not be compatible with the vacuum advance/retard or whatever you have on your year of U.S. Spitfire. If it idles wrong and changing th
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00395.html (6,940 bytes)
- 14. Urban legend (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 1995 13:46:04 -0700 (MST)
- (How's that for a subject guaranteed to start a thread?) In one of the TSSC magazines it was asserted that (and this is a paraphrase): Towards the end of the Spitfire era, they ran out of 1500 engine
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00441.html (6,968 bytes)
- 15. re: Stop that buzzing noise (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 11:38:33 -0700 (MST)
- My late Spitfire daily-dog just-consider-it-a-mildly-crash-resistantmotorcycle-that-doesnt-fall-over has an electric fan, so there's no relationship between rpms and fan contact. Nevertheless between
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00467.html (7,570 bytes)
- 16. Herald/Vitesse help needed (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 10:40:43 -0700 (MST)
- Greasings, all. As Tessa comes back to life I find that I inadequately labeled all the wiring harness connections (rousing chorus of "you fool" and "been there, done that" from all I'm sure) and ther
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00505.html (7,113 bytes)
- 17. Civic Runs Rings around Spit (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 11:19:41 -0700 (MST)
- ...but not the way you think. Greg's message about his Detroit locker makes me think of that Civic ad that says something like "it's a great car for city driving," and demonstrates its turning circle
- /html/triumphs/1995-05/msg00508.html (6,841 bytes)
- 18. RE: Trip To England (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 1995 12:15:33 -0700 (MST)
- One of the two Lotus Sevens used in the series (no Super in the original name) is stored at a silly "Cars of the Stars" museum in Keswick, Cumbria, not all that far from North Wales. BTW, the Caterha
- /html/triumphs/1995-06/msg00049.html (7,478 bytes)
- 19. Seen yesterday (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 10:41:03 -0700 (MST)
- In a parking lot at a restaurant: A TR4/4A/5/250 in stunningly bad shape. The body was completely rusted through at at least a dozen places all over the surface of the car, including boot lid, doors,
- /html/triumphs/1995-06/msg00111.html (7,530 bytes)
- 20. RE: Spitfire front-end lube (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 11:15:42 -0700 (MST)
- My understanding is that oil is preferred because it doesn't displace. The difference between the threaded joint of a trunnion and something like a bearing race is that in the latter the grease is co
- /html/triumphs/1995-06/msg00136.html (7,179 bytes)
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