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1. re: Weird Octane? (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 07:27:52 +0000
Don't know about the US, but here (UK) you can often see delivery tankers from one petroleum company filling up at another companies tank in the depot - we have fairly strict laws on the siting of g
/html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00024.html (7,274 bytes)

2. Fair trade? (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 07:27:39 +0000
Ah! I see.... We sent you the Triumph Stag, So you send us the Chrysler Neon . . . . . . . . . . Richard Smith
/html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00025.html (6,256 bytes)

3. re: New Range Rover (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 07:28:12 +0000
You mean there's really a place called Winslow, Arizona? I thought the Eagles just made it up! Yes, the new Range Rover is a totally awful looking beast - gone are the unique styling details that mad
/html/british-cars/1994-12/msg00026.html (6,972 bytes)

4. Lucas Fuel Injection? (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 06:00:06 +0000
I'm particularly intersted to find out exactly which Formula 1 and Can-Am cars used the Lucas PI system. I know it *was* used, but I don't know on which engines. Anyone with a definative list? Richar
/html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00075.html (6,524 bytes)

5. Weird problem with a BE auto 'box (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 15:55:21 +0000
This one's got me beat right now... A customer came in the other day to have his BW 35 auto gearbox replaced on a (concours) Triumph 2.5PI. He'd been getting all sorts of problems, so he decided that
/html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00144.html (7,924 bytes)

6. BW 35 saga - solved! (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 07:44:13 +0000
Hello folks, I thought you Volvo owners may like to know the results of the dilemma I had with a reconditioned Borg-Warner 35 auto gearbox. The problem was that it would stay in first gear for the fi
/html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00374.html (7,970 bytes)

7. Re: If Lucas Built computers... (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 1994 07:14:27 +0000
<snip> Lucas did at one time build computers! Their Lucas Logic division bought the rights to a lbc (little british computer) known as a Nascom - don't know where that name came from, but I had one
/html/british-cars/1994-11/msg00717.html (7,902 bytes)

8. Bearing Clearance??? (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 07:10:20 +0000
Rubbish!! The *real* pro uses 'plastigauge'. Most pros grind the crank to the required tolerance and fit the bearings it says in the book. Most pros couldn't calculate the difference between the mai
/html/british-cars/1994-10/msg00465.html (8,135 bytes)

9. Re: Bearing Clearances??? (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 1994 07:12:41 +0000
First - apologies to all for my badly-phrased message the other day - I'm offering no excuses, except that I wrote without thinking first. Second - I was misled by something I read into thinking we w
/html/british-cars/1994-09/msg00048.html (7,571 bytes)

10. Re: TR6 Idle Problems. (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 1994 07:41:02 +0000
Try listening to the brake servo when the engine is running and the car is stationery with your foot on the brake pedal. Does it hiss? You may be able to hear it as you depress the brake pedal, even
/html/british-cars/1994-09/msg00414.html (7,882 bytes)

11. Re: Crankshaft Treatments (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 07:12:13 +0000
Triumph crankshafts are notoriously difficult to treat by Nitriding or Tuftriding, beacause they haven't enough carbon in the steel (I think that's the reason, anyway!). Kas Kastner (who I reckon kn
/html/british-cars/1994-09/msg00586.html (7,716 bytes)

12. Re: Crankshaft Treatments (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 07:33:48 +0000
Just shows how I shouldn't listen to those old wives... it was them told me that you couldn't harden a TR crank by Nitriding..... New TR5 or 6 crank? They're only about 130 UKpounds. Richard Smith
/html/british-cars/1994-09/msg00622.html (7,868 bytes)

13. Re: Question on 69 Spitfire (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 07:33:24 +0000
The best thing to use in this case is diesel fuel (derv., or whatever you call it!). It'll free up almost any engine if you squirt a few cc's in through the plug holes and leave it for a day or ten.
/html/british-cars/1994-09/msg00623.html (7,753 bytes)

14. Bearing Clearance??? (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 07:10:20 +0000
Rubbish!! The *real* pro uses 'plastigauge'. Most pros grind the crank to the required tolerance and fit the bearings it says in the book. Most pros couldn't calculate the difference between the mai
/html/british-cars/1994-08/msg00730.html (8,042 bytes)

15. Triumph Engine Number? (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 1994 06:15:25 +0000
I've just bought a Triumph 2.5PI station wagon, with a very peculiar engine X1242E None of my regular contacts has heard of an X series of 2.5 engine numbers - has anyone else? The only other snippet
/html/british-cars/1994-07/msg00034.html (6,868 bytes)

16. Triumph X numbers (score: 1)
Author: Richard Smith <richard+1b5d11@mole.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 1994 07:18:20 +0000
Regarding my previous post about this X-series engine in a Triumph PI, there's one thing I forgot to mention. The engine is not the original, it was changed by the owner before the chap I got it from
/html/british-cars/1994-07/msg00039.html (6,646 bytes)


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