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101. Re: [Spits] Softer than stock front springs (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:37:24 -0500
For any given weight, the loading within the spring is the same everywhere. Regardless of the free length (and assuming a linear spring), if the spring compresses an amount X and original length Y, t
/html/spitfires/2007-12/msg00028.html (8,508 bytes)

102. Re: [Spits] Timing chain cover nut (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:27:17 -0500
Well, ah yes, I have a way. I use a 1-13/16" socket (or whatever it is). I believe you can find lots of 'em at Sears. Maybe a bit more expensive than Harbor Freight, but cheaper than taking the car t
/html/spitfires/2008-01/msg00010.html (7,663 bytes)

103. Re: [Spits] Mkiv Spitfire Bonnet/Hood Wanted (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:57:55 -0500
Sorry, I can't help you. Well, that's not a surprise. If you insist on living on the bottom of the world things will tend to fall off. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ _________
/html/spitfires/2008-01/msg00039.html (6,860 bytes)

104. [Spits] solenoid or starter? (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:18:19 -0500
Today being a nice day here in the upper right corner of the country, I tried to fire up the Spitfire. No go. So I hooked up my faithful portable starter battery. Just a very slow whirr--wrr--wrr. No
/html/spitfires/2008-02/msg00007.html (8,104 bytes)

105. Re: [Spits] Sun visor concerns (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:49:37 -0500
My experience has been that the problem is the other way around, how to get it to move at all after it has rusted sufficiently inside. Which I'm sure you know this already, but if you remove the viso
/html/spitfires/2008-03/msg00001.html (7,399 bytes)

106. [Spits] Thanks, starter disassembled (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:08:31 -0400
A few weeks ago I asked about the aging potential of starters and received a substantial answer, yes they did age and yes replacing of components was often the answer. The weather being nice today he
/html/spitfires/2008-03/msg00008.html (7,313 bytes)

107. Re: [Spits] Spitfire Leg Room (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:11:36 -0400
I'm surprised no one has suggested moving the pedals. The idea would be to modify the master cylinder hangers for clutch a brake. Of course, the most important pedal is the throttle since that's the
/html/spitfires/2008-03/msg00039.html (8,124 bytes)

108. [Spits] spring cleaning (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:39:46 -0400
Fellow Triumphirazzi and Spitfirazzi, My better half has asked me to clean some of the car parts out of her gardening shed. So in the interest of domestic tranquility I am therefore discarding (final
/html/spitfires/2008-03/msg00050.html (7,650 bytes)

109. Re: [Spits] Bolt Patternon Spitfire (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:32:29 -0400
Someone already mentioned various Lotus cars. One I know of is the Europa. If you are looking for steel wheels for a re-build to original appearance, I have some you can have. I'm in the Boston area.
/html/spitfires/2008-03/msg00059.html (7,212 bytes)

110. Re: [Spits] Want to buy a GT6 (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:36:03 -0400
There isn't much more to say. Do note however that the Mk1 has a different dashboard. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ _______________________________________________ Support Te
/html/spitfires/2008-04/msg00022.html (7,315 bytes)

111. [Spits] horn wiring query (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 21:23:05 -0400
A question, if you please. I need some knowledge about the GT6's horn wiring. My only manuals are for the Spitfire. The Bentley manual shows the horn wired one way for 1975 and differently for later
/html/spitfires/2008-04/msg00026.html (6,686 bytes)

112. Re: [Spits] [TR] What are the odds!! (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:37:51 -0400
There's your problem. You should've been eating a Moon Pie along with the Dr. Pepper. As someone else already pointed out, setting the valves is like revenge, a dish best done or serverd cold. Unless
/html/spitfires/2008-04/msg00043.html (7,314 bytes)

113. Re: [Spits] What are the odds!! (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:16:23 -0400
Was it warm? Are you sure it wasn't some form of beer? Beer makes that particular journey quite readily. Oh, you said dark brown. Nevermind. -- Jim Muller, who has grown rather fond of Wychwood Hobgo
/html/spitfires/2008-04/msg00046.html (7,984 bytes)

114. Re: [Spits] What are the odds!! (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:56:08 -0400
Ah yes, and 40 years ago it might have been real root beer. The prime taste ingredient was from the sassafras tree, a common native plant of southeastern US (and other places). The distinctive visual
/html/spitfires/2008-04/msg00047.html (8,717 bytes)

115. Re: [Spits] Yahoo message I received. (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Sat, 03 May 2008 19:45:14 -0400
Agreed, but that should've been "To will avoided the risk, please to don't click on links in the e-mails." -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ _____________________________________
/html/spitfires/2008-05/msg00005.html (7,457 bytes)

116. Re: [Spits] A movie NOT for Triumph fans - (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 08:16:50 -0400
I remember a Jaguar E-type (or if you prefer, XK-E) was trashed in at least one episode of The Rockford Files, a nice looking, driving example, so it appeared. Of course this was back when E's were a
/html/spitfires/2008-05/msg00016.html (7,684 bytes)

117. Re: [Spits] Swing Spring (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 23:04:21 -0400
I see Joe "Fluif" Curry has already described how it will increase body roll. The factory fixed that my increasing the size of the front swaybar, but of course that increases understeer. -- Jim Mulle
/html/spitfires/2008-05/msg00032.html (6,740 bytes)

118. Re: [Spits] PDWA valve (score: 1)
Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:08:49 -0400 (EDT)
When I got my GT6 the PDWA wasn't centered, and when I rebuilt the Spitfie's brakes it got uncentered. For the GT6 I ended up taking the PDWDWA apart to free the piston, then installed it with the p
/html/spitfires/2008-05/msg00040.html (7,553 bytes)

119. Re: [Spits] [TR] SU's/needles/jets ?? (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:57:40 -0400
As far as I know SU needles normally had a 3-letter designation like AAE or ABL or something, so AN seems strange to me. I don't recall noting a jet number, never had to myself, but the needle number
/html/spitfires/2008-06/msg00012.html (8,027 bytes)

120. Re: [Spits] New Rover UK sheetmetal for a 1974 Spitfire (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:42:28 -0400
That's exactly what I was gong to ask. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html Spitfire
/html/spitfires/2008-06/msg00025.html (7,294 bytes)

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