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1. Re: Safety Fast - That includes working on them! (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Wed, 04 Dec 91 11:44:10 PST; Rick Hoffman has some generally good suggestions on safety. It seems I read every couple of years about some enthusiast or other who got killed while working under a car; it's a serious place. I must; /html/british-cars/1991-12/msg00079.html (9,806 bytes)
2. Re: Auto nationality truism (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Wed, 04 Dec 91 14:13:31 PST; Heh. Just this morning I was reflecting that, in a pinch, it's probably better to drive an English car to eat Italian food than it would be to drive an Italian car to eat English food... That being t; /html/british-cars/1991-12/msg00091.html (7,942 bytes)
3. Re: To all you electronics wizards (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Thu, 05 Dec 91 13:30:49 PST; Why bother with the second 12V battery? One "group 27" battery, if I recall the size correctly, fits in the space of either of the 6V batteries in your car currently. Just replace the two 6Vs with a; /html/british-cars/1991-12/msg00132.html (7,877 bytes)
4. Re: Why are wires such a pain? (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Thu, 05 Dec 91 13:53:00 PST; Dennis Wilson <DWILSON@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> asks: Wire wheels, wire wheels... John Thornley considered them an anachronism when they introduced the TD, which as a result was only available with disc w; /html/british-cars/1991-12/msg00135.html (11,655 bytes)
5. Re: MGB GT (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Thu, 05 Dec 91 16:09:51 PST; I looked into such a conversion on the '74 MGB that I had several years ago and it wasn't economically feasible at that time, but I learned a lot about what's required and I've been gradually collec; /html/british-cars/1991-12/msg00142.html (9,505 bytes)
6. Re: Safety Fast - That includes working on them! (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 14:40:09 PST; Teriann cautions Pat and me about rearing our daughters to be mechanically competent: Well, given the genetic makeup passed to them by both parents, it's too late for me to worry about THAT. -- "Do y; /html/british-cars/1991-12/msg00252.html (8,134 bytes)
7. Group B Rally Supercars (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Fri, 13 Dec 91 09:41:53 PST; You are right about these cars; I believe that there were a number of European competitors in what was called Group A(?). Group B, for some reason. I can't remember what group A was. A list from memo; /html/british-cars/1991-12/msg00358.html (9,245 bytes)
8. Re: Small heads in big engines (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Tue, 01 Oct 91 14:25:36 PDT; You need to get more esoteric to find the casting numbers for each engine. If your head really came from a 1000cc engine (really either 997 or 998cc), I don't know what casting number it will have o; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00027.html (8,300 bytes)
9. Re: Kingpin(rollpin) replacement (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Thu, 03 Oct 91 15:30:48 PDT; I did that about two years ago, after I discovered wear in the lower A-arms where the pivot goes through the bottom end of the kingpin. There are a couple of tips that make it easier on a B: - Use a; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00073.html (8,592 bytes)
10. Re: Bugeyes! (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Fri, 04 Oct 91 12:42:50 PDT; That's probably the Falcon-bodied Sprite. Is the windscreen abysmally large for such a small car? (Yet another reason to hate the French.) Okay, guys, I have actually *seen* a verified-by-Clausager; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00093.html (12,631 bytes)
11. Re: Stecz and the Bugeye (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Mon, 07 Oct 91 14:22:40 PDT; The Le Mans Sprites had bodies made from an alloy called Birmabright, which work-hardened to a toughness similar to sheet steel according to Geoff Healey. The bodies were hand-hammered onto wooden d; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00114.html (10,929 bytes)
12. Re: Engine Rebuild continued... cam & other parts (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Tue, 08 Oct 91 11:52:23 PDT; NO. Tappets are not re-usable parts. I've heard it said that the most common cause of premature wear, engine failure after rebuilds, and rough running on an otherwise new engine come from reusing th; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00127.html (9,629 bytes)
13. Re: Ceramic tape on TR6 exhaust (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 15:57:51 PDT; Well, seeing as how *my* coffee cup says "I KNOW MORE THAN YOU DO!" on one side and "Ask Dr. Science" on the other, I'll hazard a brief explanation. (That's brief for me; it means you probably won't; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00189.html (9,159 bytes)
14. Re: PREVIOUS OWNER BASHING (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 12:02:44 PDT; As we all know, there's no such thing as a free Lancia.; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00207.html (7,760 bytes)
15. Hot coil (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 12:03:14 PDT; Well, the adventures of my sporadically failing MGB continue. (After three years of reliability that a Honda owner might envy, I'm not too disheartened.) The good news is that I *know* it's not the f; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00208.html (9,683 bytes)
16. Current owner mods (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Fri, 11 Oct 91 14:37:56 PDT; Dustin Kassman relates his experiences with some "custom" air filters: That's just plain silly. Ask Dan Dasaro about the correct way to make genuine racing high-performance peripheral-flow air filter; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00217.html (9,962 bytes)
17. Re: Hot coil (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Mon, 14 Oct 91 11:05:17 PDT; Refresh the memory of someone who's spent too long reading British-written manuals: the primary is the low-tension circuit comprising the white wire from the ignition switch, the white-black wire to; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00242.html (11,526 bytes)
18. Re: Hot coil (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Mon, 14 Oct 91 13:41:31 PDT; Two replies in one! Gerry asks: The car has no external ballast (it's a '71, and near as I can tell the 6V coil that requires an external ballast resistor didn't come into use until some time in the; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00249.html (8,369 bytes)
19. Hot Coils and Cold Gas (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 14:34:50 PDT; Which, after all, seems to be the problem on my green MGB. I ran it for most of an hour, sitting in the driveway or tooling up and down the street, after cleaning all the contacts on the right (elect; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00271.html (7,952 bytes)
20. Re: Hot Coils and Cold Gas (score: 1): Author: sfisher@Pa.dec.com; Date: Tue, 15 Oct 91 14:47:27 PDT; I mistype: Should be fuel *system* cleaner, of course. The whole point with the filter is that you throw it away when it gets nasty. I'm hoping that there's something simple, like a restriction from; /html/british-cars/1991-10/msg00272.html (7,379 bytes)

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