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21. Yippee, it runs! (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:14:34 -0400
The Spitfire runs! After nearly a year off the road. Had no trouble firing up the engine. I squirted a bit of oil in each plug hole (probably not necessary but what the heck, it seemed like a good i
/html/spitfires/2006-10/msg00052.html (8,409 bytes)

22. Re: early/late rear springs, was sagging rear/advice (score: 1)
Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:50:16 -0500 (EST)
Nolan wrote that: However breaking that leaf will remove *all* the roll stifffness from the rear. Or to put it another way, even more than it was before the front will be the determinant of the car's
/html/spitfires/2006-11/msg00006.html (8,926 bytes)

23. RE: early/late rear springs, was sagging rear/advice (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 23:16:58 -0500
First, I must point out that I drove the Spitfire to work today topdown. 'Twas a cold ride home but oh so satisfying! I'd forgotten just how rev'y the engine was, and how much farther apart 2nd and 3
/html/spitfires/2006-11/msg00017.html (10,930 bytes)

24. A quote on the swing-spring (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:29:33 -0500
I recently started re-reading Graham Robeson's book "Triumph Spitfire & GT6". Right there in chapter 1, page 19, he says "Cost targets for the new car, which had been named Herald after Alick Dick's
/html/spitfires/2006-11/msg00035.html (8,831 bytes)

25. Re: A quote on the swing-spring (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 21:47:06 -0500
Very interesting. GR says absolutely nothing about that, gives lots diagrams, pictures and discussion implying that the swing axle was the original idea. I'd sure trust Jonmac to know what he's talki
/html/spitfires/2006-11/msg00046.html (8,218 bytes)

26. RE: A quote on the swing-spring (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:21:07 -0500
-- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ == This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register == http://www.vtr.org
/html/spitfires/2006-11/msg00047.html (7,623 bytes)

27. RE: A quote on the swing-spring (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:26:49 -0500
What problem would that be? Following yourself? So did you fix it with a swing-spring or a camber compensator? -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ == This list supported in part by
/html/spitfires/2006-11/msg00049.html (7,826 bytes)

28. Re: [TR] Need some differential help please! (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:40:37 -0500
Does it get enough sleep? Have you hugged it lately? Could it be that it just wants attention? All seriousness aside though, are you sure it is the diff? Does it have much free play? If you're willin
/html/spitfires/2006-10/msg00063.html (7,133 bytes)

29. Re: sagging rear/advice (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:16:23 -0500
Another possible factor is the longer axles which started in mid1979, if I remember right. It wouldn't apply to DR's '77, or course. -- Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ == This lis
/html/spitfires/2006-10/msg00068.html (8,038 bytes)

30. RE: early/late rear springs, was sagging rear/advice (score: 1)
Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:15:55 -0500 (EST)
Gosling, Richard asserted: Not to put too fine a point on it (which I'll do anyway), but you mean halfshaft or axle. If the wheel was perpendicular to the driveshaft the car could only go around in c
/html/spitfires/2006-10/msg00083.html (8,304 bytes)

31. Re: sagging rear/advice (score: 1)
Author: <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:02:06 -0500 (EST)
It strikes me that there may be a question of terminology. When some people talk about sag they are speaking of the body roll, i.e. the lean, toward the driver's side due to the driver's weight. Sinc
/html/spitfires/2006-10/msg00086.html (9,267 bytes)

32. RE: early/late rear springs, was sagging rear/advice (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:42:46 -0500
Hah! A propshaft hold the propeller on an airplane (or if you prefer, an aeroplane :-), which that's what we would have been flying with before the invention of that Whiggish invention, the jet. Not
/html/spitfires/2006-10/msg00090.html (8,133 bytes)

33. Re: [TR] Repair Operations Times (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:33:43 -0500
Tough call. Others here have warned of the danger if Shipwright's Disease. You have to know when to stop, but also how to be happy with the knowledge that you did. My Spitfire was off the road for ab
/html/spitfires/2006-11/msg00078.html (7,335 bytes)

34. Re: Good news - the tranny's out (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:16:33 -0500
Great! Yes it is work and getting that flange to clear everything is a major hurdle. It will be easier the next time. Yep. That sounds familiar. Might be easier with two people but the two bolts into
/html/spitfires/2006-12/msg00005.html (8,070 bytes)

35. Re: SPITFIRE - Getting my Spitfire Ready for Daily Driver (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 00:52:52 -0500
That's a trip around the block! I've driven mine on 700 mile round trips with the wife and me camping out of it. The point being that the car should handle a longer trip just fine if it's in good sha
/html/spitfires/2006-12/msg00009.html (8,046 bytes)

36. good news - tranny's out (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 10:10:14 -0500
set You have a wrench angel watching over you. out This from the guy who aligns his clutch by eye. You have both a wrench angel and an engine hoist. Most of us have neither. Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.
/html/spitfires/2006-12/msg00011.html (6,958 bytes)

37. Re: Spitfire SU Carbs (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:26:33 -0500
Perhaps the floats don't. They may have developed leaks. Also see if the valves are getting stuck repeatedly from junk in the gas. Is the junk the bowls? Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com == This list sup
/html/spitfires/2006-11/msg00089.html (6,478 bytes)

38. Re: [TR] Spitfire part (not)needed anymore Thanks! (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:11:51 -0500
So, like, if you ship the car to England you'll need a right hand headlight surround? Just curious. Jim Muller jimmuller@rcn.com == This list supported in part by The Vintage Triumph Register == http
/html/spitfires/2006-11/msg00096.html (6,905 bytes)

39. Re: Transmission removal project. (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 18:36:56 -0500
Didn't Ganadalf say something like that in the Return Of The King, the movie? This is a Spitfire 1500, right? That black cowling is held in by a few sheetmetal screws into the hump in the body and by
/html/spitfires/2006-11/msg00101.html (10,446 bytes)

40. Re: transmission removal project - followup (score: 1)
Author: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:49:55 -0500
It isn't likely that you would bend the input shaft, but it does stress the pilot bushing and the bearings in the gearbox and the clutch disk and splines. Hmmm, bending the steel frame of the clutch
/html/spitfires/2006-11/msg00105.html (8,792 bytes)

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