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41. RE: Spitfire Swing Spring (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:02:38 +0100
Barry said: "...Because when the angle of the upright changes, and you don't change the length of the pivot points between the spring eye and the hub on the upright, the axle is at a slightly differe
/html/spitfires/2004-09/msg00009.html (8,682 bytes)

42. RE: Mountney Steering wheel problem (resolved) (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 16:08:25 +0100
Who ever said the British don't know about customer service?! Richard Gosling This email and any attached files are confidential and copyright protected. If you are not the addressee, any disseminati
/html/spitfires/2004-09/msg00017.html (6,939 bytes)

43. RE: Too Hot!!!! (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:04:23 +0100
Martin said: "...I noticed that when I increased the revs both the fuel and temp guage rise quite rapidly, ease off and they drop back..." Martin, it sounds to me like you still don't have the voltag
/html/spitfires/2004-09/msg00036.html (7,282 bytes)

44. RE: Engine Running On (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:18:47 +0100
Martin asked: "...What would cause an engine to continue running for a few seconds after the ignition has been turned off?..." Engine running too hot (for a variety of reasons) Build-up of soot parti
/html/spitfires/2004-09/msg00037.html (7,443 bytes)

45. RE: Electrical question. (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 09:57:05 +0100
First of all, don't try anything until you have a wiring diagram to tell you what's what. There should be one (for a UK MkIII I think, don't know how different the US MkIII is) at http://www.totallyt
/html/spitfires/2004-09/msg00114.html (9,808 bytes)

46. RE: Seats (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 16:00:58 +0100
Looking at the Rimmers website http://www.rimmerbros.co.uk/cgi-bin/rimmer?spitfire/int-trim it seems that the seats were unchanged from 1973 until the end of production. They were low-back, with adj
/html/spitfires/2004-08/msg00007.html (6,866 bytes)

47. RE: Location of Turn Signal Flasher Unit (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 17:06:44 +0100
That's probably it. Mine was there (or the RHD equivalent), but had stopped working, so my DPO had replaced it and the replacement was just hanging about dangling on the end of the wires stuffed up b
/html/spitfires/2004-08/msg00028.html (8,308 bytes)

48. RE: Location of Turn Signal Flasher Unit (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:45:39 +0100
"...There is only one Flasher unit and it is used for both turn signal and hazard lights..." Possibly on your car, but definitely not on mine (1978 UK-spec 1500). There are different electrical layou
/html/spitfires/2004-08/msg00031.html (8,134 bytes)

49. RE: Spring Compressor (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 08:29:24 +0100
That spring compressor sounds to me like a DPO addition - there wasn't one on my (UK) '78, and I don't recall anyone ever mentioning one before on this or the other forum I haunt. Mechanically there
/html/spitfires/2004-08/msg00051.html (7,653 bytes)

50. RE: Cracked steering wheel :-( (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:42:38 +0100
The discussion about cracked Mountney steering wheels you remember was from about a year ago - Dean Dashwood had the original problem. He stated that Rimmers had been aware of the problem for 18 mon
/html/spitfires/2004-08/msg00057.html (7,304 bytes)

51. RE: Spitfire Swing Spring (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:10:49 +0100
Paul said: "...the longer axle with the shorter spring created a bit more camber as the upright would have been leaning in a bit more with the shorter spring..." Not strictly true - the angle of the
/html/spitfires/2004-08/msg00164.html (9,405 bytes)

52. RE: Spitfire Swing Spring (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:19:13 +0100
Paul clarified: "...if the upright is not vertical then the distance between the spring and axle will be shorter. So the shorter spring with longer axle will let the car sit lower..." Well, strictly
/html/spitfires/2004-08/msg00169.html (9,609 bytes)

53. RE: spitfire twins (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 10:42:30 +0100
I knew Daffy's twin well - her name is Carly. Both Inca Yellow 1500s, Daffy a '78, Carly (I think) a '79 - although Daffy had O/D and Carly does not, and Carly was improved to a much tidier standard
/html/spitfires/2004-07/msg00070.html (7,558 bytes)

54. RE: Miata seats (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:17:52 +0100
I used seats from an earlier-shape MX5 (European name for Miata/Eunos) in my Spit - the one with pop-up headlights. A tight fit, but they went in. The later seats may well fit just as well, I have n
/html/spitfires/2004-07/msg00098.html (6,885 bytes)

55. RE: the discouraging differential saga continues... (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:44:12 +0100
Glad you got the diff on! When I replaced my diff (many moons ago) I seem to remember that I did manage to push the spring down far enough to get the studs engaged just with brute force - but that wa
/html/spitfires/2004-07/msg00101.html (9,052 bytes)

56. RE: the discouraging differential saga continues... (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:57:55 +0100
Just occurred to me - when I've disconnected my spring (after catastrophic UJ failure leading to a complete vertical link replacement exercise!), I reconnected the spring to the vertical link (with s
/html/spitfires/2004-07/msg00104.html (9,045 bytes)

57. RE: 1500 Valve Rocker Cover Fit 1300? (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:09:03 +0100
Looking at the Rimmers website (www.rimmerbros.co.uk) the same cover was used for MkIV (1300) and earlier 1500 engines. However, the covers for other engines are probably only different in style, not
/html/spitfires/2004-07/msg00108.html (7,715 bytes)

58. RE: Thoughts on fiberglass Spitfire body (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:01:26 +0100
Sounds essentially like a good idea - if you can find enough customers! When Daffy failed her MOT (annual roadworthiness test) last year with more rust than I could cope with, I thought long and hard
/html/spitfires/2004-07/msg00122.html (10,800 bytes)

59. RE: Thoughts on fiberglass Spitfire body (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:08:37 +0100
Just to clarify, the prices I was quoting just now (for the Hurricane and Spitfire T6 bodies) were GB Pounds - the autox.team.net server seems to have replaced the pound symbol with a '#'. Richard Go
/html/spitfires/2004-07/msg00123.html (7,771 bytes)

60. Elise (score: 1)
Author: "Gosling, Richard B" <Richard.Gosling@atkinsglobal.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:20:10 +0100
I appreciate your thoughts on the Elise. It may be new to America, but here in Europe we have been enjoying it for about 8 or 9 years now, and it's on its second incarnation - it came out back in th
/html/spitfires/2004-07/msg00124.html (7,724 bytes)


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