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RE: still missing

To: "'TR6 list'" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: still missing
From: "Mark Creamer" <mcreamer@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 07:35:53 -0400
Almost looks like an Aston Martin badge on the front. What the heck is
it?

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Gary Fluke
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2003 2:53 AM
To: KTnKT
Cc: TR6 list
Subject: Re: still missing

Kevin,

Do you know the story on the car with the wooden body shown on the
following
page of your club's website?

http://www.capecodbritishcarclub.org/CarPhotos/Just_try_to_name_this_one
.jpg

The driver's door looks suspiciously TR3 like, but I don't really know
why
it would be related at all since it seems to be made of wood.


Gary
'73


----- Original Message -----
From: "KTnKT" <ktnkt@cape.com>
To: <WaltP@Anspach.com>; "6 Pack" <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:48 PM
Subject: Re: still missing


>   Walt,
>        if the other suggestions you've heard don't work, try pulling
the
> plug wires, one at a time, and look inside the insulators at both ends
> with a flashlight. If they're like the ones I had on my car last year,
> you'll find a few with blackened connectors. In fact, one wire
> completely separated from the crimp connection and fell off the
> distributor cap when the cap was removed. This was caused by the
crimps
> at the connectors not being tight enough. And no, these wires weren't
5
> or 10 years old. They had been installed 3 months earlier, and had
about
> 2,000 miles on them. Just one more example of the inferior parts being
> manufactured for us these days. They had been purchased from one of
the
> "big 2".
> (I don't even consider Victoria British to be in the running since
> getting a box of absolute trash from them a few years ago for a
Spitfire
> project)..
>    In any case, back to the subject..... The arcing from the weak
> connections burned the center wire core completely through on half the
> wires. Any time one buys a set of wires, it's good practice to check
all
> connections, and tighten the crimps if neccesary.
>   Good luck,
> Kevin "sparky" Thompson
> at: www.capecodbritishcarclub.org

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