- 41. RE: oil filter, TR (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Mon, 7 Aug 1995 13:57:31 -0700 (MST)
- Check to make sure there's only one gasket in there. I had this problem, and an additional difficulty getting it tightened down hard enough before it would stop dribbling. Turns out that the DPO had
- /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00138.html (7,416 bytes)
- 42. Death of a valiant warrior (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 13:31:39 -0700 (MST)
- He owned it from new and has been using it as his sole transportation for nearly 15 years! The last 8 or so of them in the Los Angeles area, yet. How many on this list can approach that record? We ca
- /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00296.html (7,143 bytes)
- 43. Off-topic messages (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 10:57:26 -0700
- Off-topic messages I can stand. It's the hundred flames and followups contesting the poster's right to post the message that rankles my arse. (Including this one, I suppose.) Isn't there enough of th
- /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00383.html (6,754 bytes)
- 44. Seeking Spit Mk. III (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 10:57:51 -0700 (MST)
- Greetings, O list. I'm considering selling my 1500 to John Hazelton to replace the one that gave up its life for him. But I refuse to be Spitless (scared or otherwise) and lately I've been thinking h
- /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00428.html (6,713 bytes)
- 45. Quality of TSSC hoods? (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 14:44:54 -0700 (MST)
- Any opinions on the quality of the "Vynide" hoods offered by the Triumph Sports Six Club would be appreciated. Thanks in 10 degrees of advance. Dan Parslow, djp@alpha.sunquest.com '65 Vitesse-cum-rai
- /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00465.html (6,324 bytes)
- 46. RE: TR-6 Rear hub tools wanted (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 12:18:52 -0700 (MST)
- Doesn't the Churchill hub puller weigh on the order of _tons_? What would the postage be on that?
- /html/triumphs/1995-08/msg00506.html (6,995 bytes)
- 47. When were sidelights legally required? (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 11:33:37 -0700 (MST)
- Greetings O Triumphanatics. When did front sidelights become a legal requirement in the You Ess of Ay? My 1965 Vitesse (titled as a 1966, unfortunately) had these obviously tacked-on sidelights when
- /html/triumphs/1995-09/msg00286.html (7,872 bytes)
- 48. RE: unusual sightings (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Fri, 22 Sep 1995 10:41:52 -0700
- FWIW, I hear rumors of, and have distantly spotted myself, a pretty blonde woman here in town using a white Vitesse convertible as a daily driver. I've spotted her twice but have been unable to catch
- /html/triumphs/1995-09/msg00435.html (7,385 bytes)
- 49. Re: siezed brake m/c (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 10:12:49 -0700 (MST)
- YES! Always assume the worst with old junkyard stuff when safety is concerned! Once you get it unstuck, you should assume that the bore is damaged. Even if it isn't, pretend it is. We're talking abou
- /html/triumphs/1995-09/msg00595.html (8,328 bytes)
- 50. Re: seized brake m/c (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 11:00:28 -0700
- Once, in my ignorant youth (and I only wish the ignorance would disappear as fast as the youth :)) I swapped in a junkyard brake master cylinder and drove with it without rebuilding. The cylinder fai
- /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00055.html (6,996 bytes)
- 51. Generator pulley needed (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 16:01:17 -0700 (MST)
- Dear Triumpholks, I need the correct pulley for a GT6, Vitesse or Triumph 2000. Not sure which other cars used it. It goes to a Lucas (hail!) C40L generator, but doubtless it fits practically anythin
- /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00080.html (7,480 bytes)
- 52. RE: Crap messages (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 11:09:33 -0700 (MST)
- Since everyone is posting their complaints here: I responded to the stupid "Good luck" message by forwarding it to the postmaster at the sender's site, along with a request that any policy they may h
- /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00111.html (7,072 bytes)
- 53. Carb float repair and TR4 shift knob (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:00:53 -0700 (MST)
- Greetings, O list. I suffered carb float failure the other night. Major flooding, gas gushing out of the carbon cannister, that kind of thing. When I opened the carb the float just kind of fell out.
- /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00229.html (7,899 bytes)
- 54. Can sticking float valves be cured? (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:39:58 -0700
- Well, I never built the cam-and-trip-hammer device that attaches to the right front wheel and whacks the carbs as you drive to loosen your float valves. (Apologies and thanks to whoever I stole that
- /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00274.html (7,173 bytes)
- 55. Return of the unleaded thread (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 13:31:33 -0700 (MST)
- Well, at the risk of starting up another Thread That Wouldn't Die, we in AZ are in the process of losing all our leaded pumps. It won't be illegal until Jan 1 but the major companies are converting t
- /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00305.html (7,709 bytes)
- 56. RE: TR6 clutch problem (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 13:18:52 -0700 (MST)
- Don't forget to check for wear in the pedal-to-pushrod linkage. The hole gets to be a pretty long oval over time, and the lever arm length is quite short at this point, so any play here can be very s
- /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00339.html (7,073 bytes)
- 57. RE: Berry's Re: Antipodean greetings! (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 10:13:03 -0700 (MST)
- While it may not be the least maintainable, what gets my vote for most humorously failed attempt at making an engine bay accessible goes to the late E-type with the rubber extensions on the override
- /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00490.html (7,942 bytes)
- 58. Re: Berry's Re: Antipodean greetings! (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 14:09:01 -0700 (MST)
- There's usually a lot of monkeying around with a spring lifter (pronounced "cheater bar") to get the spring in position to put on the vertical links. Not needed with later swing-spring models like th
- /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00499.html (8,321 bytes)
- 59. Herald spring again (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 14:50:02 -0700 (MST)
- Correction: I've just remembered that I _did_ come up with a better way to lift the spring eye than the highly questionable jack-on-the-axle trick: Take a couple of concrete blocks and set them on ei
- /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00504.html (6,744 bytes)
- 60. A really lightweight question about badge painting (score: 1)
- Author: dan parslow <DJP@ALPHA.SUNQUEST.COM>
- Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 09:46:31 -0700
- My Triumph shield badge has lost every last scrap of paint. It actually looks very nice, solid bright metal, but I'm thinking of repainting it. The idea is to get the blue and white paint into the tr
- /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00121.html (7,425 bytes)
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