Steve,
EEGADDS!!!
All that just to get the hood to open properly. This Tiger restoration is
just too daunting. How many volumes are needed to remove the gas tanks?
Boy, and I thought you just remove all the nuts, bolts and assorted
hardware and then remove the tanks. Steve, do you offer cleff notes for
any of these procedures?
Exhausted,
Tim
B9470080 (completely disassembled and with no directions to reassemble)
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> From: Steve Laifman <laifman@flash.net>
> To: James E. Pickard <geowiz@www.worldnet.att.net>
> Cc: tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: bonnet release
> Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 10:23 PM
>
> "James E. Pickard" wrote:
>
> > To open the bonnet on my MkI, I have to pull the bonnet release with
> > one hand and lift the bonnet with the other hand at the same time. I
> > know it isn't suppose to work like this. I should be able to pull and
> > release the bonnet handle and the bonnet should pop open enough to lift
> > without further use of the release handle. Anybody know how to fix the
> > problem?
> >
> > Jim Pickard
> > B9473298
>
> Jim,
>
> Having just gone through that agony, including locking the hood on the
safety
> catch and not being able to open it at all, I thought that there MUST be
a better
> way. When I installed the LAT hood I found the lost secret of the
alignment
> process. Or invented one where there never was a good way.
>
> Here's the "Magic":
>
>
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