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1. "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: "Bruce A. Krobusek" <74106.1335@compuserve.com>; Date: 31 Oct 95 13:16:07 EST; Try changing the oil filter element on a US-spec TR6. - BAK - Bruce A. Krobusek Rochester NY tinyhost@aol.com CIS: 74106,1335 '83 R80RT '72 TR6 CC75665LO; /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00492.html (7,122 bytes)
2. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: Jeremy DuBois <jer@thlogic.com>; Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 14:23:22 -0500 (EST); My vote is for the TR7 water pump. It seems like a yearly renewable and I don't know what possessed them to jam it in there so you have to remove the carbs and the manifolds before you can get to th; /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00495.html (7,741 bytes)
3. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: "Philip E. Barnes" <peb3@cornell.edu>; Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 14:15:46 -0500 (EST); Oil filter is easy; how about the fan belt on a TR6? What about the clutch on an MGB; you have to take the bleedin' engine out! Phil Barnes '71 TR6 (with new fanbelt) CC61193; /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00496.html (7,682 bytes)
4. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: "Bruce A. Krobusek" <74106.1335@compuserve.com>; Date: 31 Oct 95 16:13:11 EST; Well, the oil filter wasn't easy on *my* car! :-) And, theoretically, you shouldn't have to replace the fan belt nearly as often as the oil filter. (YFBMMV...) As far as the fan belt goes, though, h; /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00501.html (7,503 bytes)
5. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: joe-schneider@nwu.edu (Joseph R Schneider); Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 20:59:39 -0600; it's no contest- having made my living in college (after a fashion) by fixing cars part time before i went to medical school (as one of my mechanic friends said, "great, only two models to work on,; /html/triumphs/1995-10/msg00511.html (8,083 bytes)
6. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: Greg Meboe <meboe@wsunix.wsu.edu>; Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 21:20:50 -0800 (PST); Changing the differential fluid on a Herald-based car. (No drain plug, you have to tip the car up sideways?) Changing the Thrust Washers in a 1500 Spit at the 30,000 mi. factory recommended interval; /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00000.html (7,912 bytes)
7. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: Keith.Bennett@bbc.co.uk (Keith Bennett); Date: 01 Nov 95 12:35:50 EST; How about that old favorite, the TR4A fanbelt, replacement of which entails slackening off one of the engine mounts and jacking up the engine to get it past the steering rack. Keith Bennett Keith.Be; /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00012.html (8,553 bytes)
8. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>; Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 10:46:38 -0800 (PST); Greg is absolutely right on this one. Of course, it's easy enough to tip the car if you have enough "jocks" around. (This was a very popular pastime in my high school -- not actually tipping my Heral; /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00016.html (9,010 bytes)
9. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: "Chris Kantarjiev" <cak@godzilla.studio.sgi.com>; Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 10:53:04 -0800 "triumphs@autox.team.net digest #28 Wed Nov 1 02:35:19 MST 1995" (Nov 1, 2:35am); I just changed the belt on my TR4A this past weekend; it suffers from the same problem as the 6 - the pulley is too close to the rack. The solution is easy: jack up the *engine* by the sump. Just eno; /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00030.html (8,754 bytes)
10. RE: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: Tom Gentry <TGENTR@wgc.woodward.com>; Date: Thu, 02 Nov 95 07:48:00 PST; <<even changing spark plugs on some american v-8s must beat most things on a <<triumph That's why I have been abstaining from this discussion. One reason I own a TR-6 is the relative EASE of maintena; /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00061.html (8,258 bytes)
11. "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: STH@softlab.de; Date: Fri, 3 Nov 95 10:43:38 +0100; My personal favourites for the contest are: To get the Stag battery out you have to remove the power steering pump first. and my non-Triumph entry is that Porsche ??? (don't remember the number) wher; /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00095.html (8,581 bytes)
12. Re: "Design" Contest (score: 1): Author: "Sean Johnson" <sean_johnson@milacron.com>; Date: Fri, 03 Nov 1995 05:07:03 -0700; I second the notion that Triumphs aren't that bad in comparison to other marques. I bought my Spitfire because I was tired of grazing my knuckles trying to get to fairly simple items on other cars. M; /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00101.html (7,969 bytes)
13. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: Phil Willson <P.J.Willson@qmw.ac.uk>; Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 12:51:40 GMT; My non-Triumph contribution is the Alfasud. The handbrake operates on the front wheels and you have to take the engine out to replace the cables. Nice one. By contrast, all Triumphs are wonderful. Bu; /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00104.html (8,227 bytes)
14. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: R John Lye <rjl6n@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu>; Date: Fri, 3 Nov 95 08:04:53 EST; Well, if we're going to mention non-Triumphs here... I was looking at a Corvette ZR-1 at an autocross a couple of weeks ago, and realized that to remove the battery, it would appear that you've got t; /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00108.html (8,263 bytes)
15. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: Ken@yourteam.com (Ken Bertschy); Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 17:10:28 -0700; Naa, you're all wrong. It's getting the aspirin out of those child proof bottles after your knuckles and fingers are all swollen and bloody from working on your LBC all day.; /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00139.html (7,799 bytes)
16. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: davcla@ix.netcom.com (David Clark ); Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 16:37:59 -0800; proof from Almost as bad as trying to install one of those generic keyboard protectors so you dont get grease all over the keys while running back and forth from the garage to this list! David; /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00142.html (7,871 bytes)
17. Re: "Design" contest (score: 1): Author: ArthurK101@aol.com; Date: Sat, 4 Nov 1995 01:09:09 -0500; YES! That's why my first car was a TR4 CT33118L -picked up at Coventry in '64 -sold in '76 and returned to me in '91 - and now my daily driver! The stories I can tell - car has been all over the U.S.; /html/triumphs/1995-11/msg00152.html (7,599 bytes)

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