- 1. Tiger Breakdown? (score: 1)
- Author: CoolVT@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:32:29 EDT
- Just curious of listers' opinions on the following: If a person was going cross country in a Tiger, what do you think would be the 2 most likely things, that would go wrong on a Tiger, that could cau
- /html/tigers/2005-09/msg00193.html (7,532 bytes)
- 2. Re: Tiger Breakdown? (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Koss" <Greg.Koss@trw.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:04:52 -0400
- Having driven straight through (42 hours) twice with two Tigers to attend California United from Michigan. We experienced a generator failure (new brushes) and bent push rod (rocker came loose). Just
- /html/tigers/2005-09/msg00194.html (8,029 bytes)
- 3. Re: Tiger Breakdown? (score: 1)
- Author: CoolVT@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:11:24 EDT
- You have to have a back made of steel to drive like that. I need something with lumbar support to drive anywhere near that much. I must say the loose rocker is an unusual problem....the generator I c
- /html/tigers/2005-09/msg00195.html (7,348 bytes)
- 4. Re: Tiger Breakdown? (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Koss" <Greg.Koss@trw.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 11:23:36 -0400
- Actually one year we had three in a Tiger. We replaced the passenger seat with two sleeping bags and lots of pillows, strapped the seat to the luggage rack. It meant each of us could sleep for 8 hour
- /html/tigers/2005-09/msg00196.html (7,714 bytes)
- 5. Re: Tiger Breakdown? (score: 1)
- Author: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:36:55 -0700
- My first thoughts are electrical. These cars are old but electrical items never get the attention that mechanical things do. So, a wiring issue, a fuel pump issue, and a spark issue. Second area woul
- /html/tigers/2005-09/msg00197.html (8,162 bytes)
- 6. RE: Tiger Breakdown? (score: 1)
- Author: "Theo Smit" <theo.smit@dynastream.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:37:00 -0600
- I had the rear generator bearing seize shortly after I got my Tiger. Any generator failure is not a simple on-the-road fix if it were to happen - it was one of the reasons I switched to a commonly av
- /html/tigers/2005-09/msg00198.html (7,624 bytes)
- 7. Re: Tiger Breakdown? (score: 1)
- Author: stubrennan@comcast.net
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:48:29 +0000
- The hazards: Hearing loss, driver overheating, and divorce. Seriously, I would expect some sort of fuel deliver issue, either the points in the original pump, or sucked up crud out of the tanks, even
- /html/tigers/2005-09/msg00199.html (8,127 bytes)
- 8. Re: Tiger Breakdown? (score: 1)
- Author: CoolVT@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:33:38 EDT
- And you were 18 years old, right? :-)
- /html/tigers/2005-09/msg00200.html (7,173 bytes)
- 9. Re: Tiger Breakdown? (score: 1)
- Author: "FunbeamChuck" <FunbeamChuck@comcast.net>
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 13:03:02 -0400
- The Funbeam has been across the country three times. From VA to MT, FL to CA and FL to CA. First, in July, '99, at SUNI III in Big Sky Montana, my clutch throw-out bearing went after the third autocr
- /html/tigers/2005-09/msg00202.html (10,211 bytes)
- 10. Tiger Breakdown? (score: 1)
- Author: DJoh797014@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:49:12 EDT
- I always carry a brake booster bypass, some GT LMA Brake fluid, and a small brass plug for where the oil line goes into the block. Also gaskerts for ther oil filter adapter (both small and large) can
- /html/tigers/2005-09/msg00204.html (7,491 bytes)
- 11. Re: Tiger Breakdown? (score: 1)
- Author: "Tony Someone" <tonythetiger@onecliq.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 00:46:33 -0500
- I was fortunate enough or to silly to know better but during almost all of the late 70s and until 1985 my two Mk1a Tigers where my main means of transportation. I have no idea the miles I logged but
- /html/tigers/2005-09/msg00207.html (8,369 bytes)
- 12. Re: Tiger Breakdown? (score: 1)
- Author: <pirouette@charter.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 4:41:00 -0400
- 1) Taking along a lady friend with whom you have a tempestuous relationship 2) Not hiding the keys
- /html/tigers/2005-09/msg00208.html (7,246 bytes)
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