- 141. Re: [Re: [Overdrive installation]] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:20:46 -0500
- Having broken more exhaust bolts then I care to count, I now consider cutting the exhaust pipe at a convenient spot and splicing in a "coupler" or adapter between the two cut ends when I am done. It
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00168.html (9,877 bytes)
- 142. Re: [Re: [Overdrive installation]] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 12:33:53 -0500
- I am sorry, I am assuming a lot. You have to disconnect the radiator hoses, disconnect the exhaust pipe, disconnect the throttle linkage. I also remove all of the electrical connections to the engin
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00169.html (9,356 bytes)
- 143. Re: [Re: British weight measures] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:33:08 -0500
- Don't forget rods, gills, pottles, etc. Jan Eyerman (in New Jersey, USA) 1/4 cousins
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00294.html (8,680 bytes)
- 144. Re: [Re: Alpine Steel Wheels] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:48:38 -0500
- You do not want a '69 Alpine GT wheel. They have a serious design defect... the lug not holes are actually raised and sit like little mountains off of the brake drum. If over-tightened (and all were
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00297.html (7,845 bytes)
- 145. Re: [Re: British weight measures] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:28:44 -0500
- Of course we are talking of the old English system here... the rest of Europe each had their own system until Napoleon forced them all to go metric. Except the Russians that is, since they beat him,
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00319.html (8,689 bytes)
- 146. Re: [Re: British weight measures] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:29:57 -0500
- Are you telling me that don't play Cricket in Plymouth??? Jan Victor Hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au> wrote: Bill, well a pitch is where cricket (no Jan E and Pete C, not Plymouth Cricket) mat
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00320.html (8,161 bytes)
- 147. Re: [Re: Carlisle Fairgrounds May 17 to 19] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:32:01 -0500
- I went there a few years ago on Friday and was quite disappointed. However, this year I will go on Saturday and see if things are better. Jan Eyerman 1973 Hillman Avenger DL
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00321.html (7,587 bytes)
- 148. Re: [Oil pressure in new engine] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:45:58 -0500
- You might go to a local parts store and buy an after-market oil pressure gauge, then connect it to your engine (removing the OEM line) using the semi-clear platic tubing. Try it, if you still get no
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00336.html (8,096 bytes)
- 149. OFF TOPIC (way, way off topic!) (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 21:51:12 -0500
- Although my two grown children would disagree, I was not around back in those days. But the history books tell me that back in those days the USA and Canada used beaver pelts. For small change I beli
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00337.html (10,016 bytes)
- 150. Re: [RE: Oil pressure in new engine] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:47:24 -0500
- I have always had a can of STP next to me when I rebuild an engine. I paint every bearing surface with it as I assemble the engine. This insures some lubrication when the engine cranks the first time
- /html/alpines/2002-03/msg00358.html (9,883 bytes)
- 151. Re: [Re: 3 questions] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: 3 Feb 2002 19:09:54 EST
- If my somewhat poor memory is correct, the '69 Sunbeam Alpine GT used a Lockheed dual master cylinder that incorporated a floating piston. If one of the circuits failed, the floating piston would phy
- /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00030.html (8,085 bytes)
- 152. Re: [Re: I swear, eBay must be a parallel universe...] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: 4 Feb 2002 23:13:11 EST
- My son remarked to me that the Internet evened the odds between the powerful and the weak. He meant that those who had a monopoly on knowledge were using it to their advantage and to everyone else's
- /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00059.html (9,273 bytes)
- 153. Re: [Re: The big question] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: 6 Feb 2002 21:08:53 EST
- We owe left hand drive to Henry Ford. When the Model T came out, US cars had both left and right hand drive. Henry decided that he would build the Model T with left hand drive and since he built so m
- /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00077.html (8,135 bytes)
- 154. Re: [Re: Overdrive/tranny matching] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: 7 Feb 2002 12:02:37 EST
- This really is an interesting question.... a non-synchro first gear and overdrive or a fully synchro box without overdrive. It really comes down to where are you going drive the car? Mainly in a city
- /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00095.html (7,921 bytes)
- 155. Re: [Re: The big question] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: 7 Feb 2002 12:07:30 EST
- The interesting thing about the Swede changeover was that for about a year after the change, accidents declined dramatically. It seems everyone was watching what they were doing and being very carefu
- /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00096.html (8,750 bytes)
- 156. Re: [Re: The big question] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: 7 Feb 2002 19:09:24 EST
- New Jersey has been experimenting with that concept for at least 30 years. Some cars drive on the right side of the road, while others, often in more of a hurry drive on the left side of the road, or
- /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00110.html (8,342 bytes)
- 157. Re: [SV: [Re: The big question]] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: 7 Feb 2002 19:12:25 EST
- That info came from an article in Car & Driver I believe. Jan Jan -- Original Message -- From: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net> To: Bill Mounce <bmounce@bellatlantic.net>; Russell & Neola <rmaddock@
- /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00111.html (8,946 bytes)
- 158. Re: [alpine transmission match] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: 12 Feb 2002 21:24:14 EST
- You must be looking at that brand new Cricket trans on e-bay! The Cricket trans probably could be made to fit a Series V, but it is an entirely new trans (to go with the entirely new engine). To sta
- /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00152.html (7,202 bytes)
- 159. Re: [Alpine Series IVa] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: 19 Feb 2002 16:19:46 EST
- Very, very interesting..... especially since there were also Sunbeam Rapiers and Imps being built at that time. Jan Eyerman Recordms@aol.com wrote: Russ, Since you've mentioned ol' Alpine 94104027, t
- /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00229.html (7,060 bytes)
- 160. Re: [wheel interchangability question] (score: 1)
- Author: Jan Eyerman <jan.eyerman@usa.net>
- Date: 20 Feb 2002 11:25:57 EST
- English Ford wheels fit (Cortina) and early seventies Mercury Capri (the European one, not the later Mustang version). The bolt circle is, I believe, either 108mm or 110mm Jan Bill Mounce <bmounce@be
- /html/alpines/2002-02/msg00243.html (7,481 bytes)
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