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1. Re: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: Geo Hahn <ahwahnee@cybertrails.com>; Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:57:44 -0700; FWIW - I just carry a suitable length of 1/8" nylon rope to tie around the pulleys. Used it once when the dynamo bushing started going and drove 300 miles on the battery with the rope around the cran; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00006.html (7,884 bytes)
2. RE: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:16:50 -0800; I've heard that lady's nylon pantyhose will work in a pinch, as well. Just tie them around the pulleys as tight as possible. I've actually driven home with no fan belt, but I certainly wouldn't reco; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00007.html (7,837 bytes)
3. RE: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: "Paige, Dean" <DPaige@ci.santa-rosa.ca.us>; Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 15:39:19 -0800; I managed to get new belts on my 73 by placing a jack under the sump and raising the engine that way the fractions of an inch it took to get a new belt on. Was careful to watch that I was not denting; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00010.html (8,190 bytes)
4. RE: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: John & Patricia Donnelly <pdonnel1@san.rr.com>; Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:00:02 -0800; Yeah, right. Just what I need, for my buddies to see a pair of panty hose in the boot when I take my golf clubs out on Saturday morning. Might as well put a rainbow decal on my bumper. I like the nyl; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00016.html (8,644 bytes)
5. Re: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: "Kurtis" <kurtisj123@cox.net>; Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:08:05 -0600; This (in addition to loosening the front engine mounts) is exactly what I had to do when I changed my belt a while back. Not a big deal, but I like the nylon rope trick that Geo mentioned. Kurtis Jo; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00017.html (8,198 bytes)
6. RE: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>; Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:21:44 -0800; Aw that's no problem, John. If anyone sees them, just smile and say "Oh, those must be Lydia's." (Assuming of course Lydia isn't your wife's name.) Refuse to answer any further questions. Keep this; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00019.html (8,088 bytes)
7. Re: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: BearTranserv@aol.com; Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:36:20 EST; Robert Houston 63 TR4 73 MG Midget Texan in New Mexico This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00022.html (8,701 bytes)
8. RE: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: "Dean Mericas" <dmericas@limno.com>; Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 05:51:50 -0500; FWIW, I've limped the TR4 home using a borrowed narrow belt from an MGB. It made me feel a little dirty, but I got home ; ^ ) Dean Mericas 1965 TR4 1974 200 GTV; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00030.html (8,021 bytes)
9. Re: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>; Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 07:55:48 -0600; You must have been a Boy Scout.........; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00035.html (8,799 bytes)
10. Re: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: Bill & Skip Pugh <anabil@caltel.com>; Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:24:21 -0800; Would it not be simpler, just to carry a spare belt?? -- Bill Pugh 1957 TR3 TS16765L aka Casper 1971 TR6 CC59179L aka Rosey Wallace, CA; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00044.html (9,065 bytes)
11. Re: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: Steven Newell <steven@newellboys.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:13:22 -0700; No, because of the difficulty of installing a fan belt on some TR's because of the interference between the fan hub extension and the body cross piece. To install a new belt, you'll typically need to; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00046.html (9,074 bytes)
12. RE: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: "Randall" <tr3driver@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:20:21 -0800; Next you'll tell us you've never been caught in the rain without an umbrella ! Seriously, at the very least a spare belt would not have helped Geo. He needed to turn the water pump without turning t; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00047.html (8,675 bytes)
13. Re: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@razzolink.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:37:05 -0800; I believe it would "ruin all the fun". Evidently men in general derive a great deal of pleasure inventing ingenious ways to cobble a functional field fix without using correct replacement parts. This; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00048.html (8,979 bytes)
14. RE: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: "R. Ashford Little II" <70TR6@mindspring.com>; Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 14:43:01 -0500; OK, someone has to ask the obvious dumb question. If you use a nylon rope and tie a knot in it then how does that work? R. Ashford Little II '70 TR6 CC54994; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00049.html (8,454 bytes)
15. Re: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: TeriAnn Wakeman <twakeman@razzolink.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 12:15:32 -0800; Is that a later TR thing? I never had that problem with my TR3A. It was a tad tight but would squeeze past. You should have replaced the bearing earlier. Humm never had an issue with that. But I hav; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00050.html (9,170 bytes)
16. Re: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: Steven Newell <steven@newellboys.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:23:05 -0700; Guilty. :) I vaguely remember reading instructions for making a head gasket for one's Series Land Rover from large leaves of the kind presumably growing in the African bush. Are these instructions in; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00051.html (8,793 bytes)
17. RE: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: "Mark Hooper" <mhooper@digiscreen.ca>; Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 15:32:05 -0500; Hi TeriAnn: That's because duct tape is the handyman's secret weapon. It wouldn't be secret if we told everybody about it, would it? Cheers, Mark I believe it would "ruin all the fun". Evidently men; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00052.html (9,143 bytes)
18. Re: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: "January Williams" <january@chemeketa.edu>; Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 13:49:42 -0800; What I've done was recommended on a previous version of this same thread a couple of years ago, I installed 2 ! One of course on the pulleys for operation, and the spare, over the hub extension, but; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00055.html (8,706 bytes)
19. Re: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: Geo Hahn <ahwahnee@cybertrails.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 15:34:29 -0700; The version I saw told how many pages of the Nairobi Times were needed to make a suitable Landy head gasket plus instructions for making up a condensor from chewing gum foils. As for the difficulty i; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00057.html (8,606 bytes)
20. Re: wide/narrow belt (score: 1): Author: "WebmasterRick" <WebmasterRick@comcast.net>; Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:54:51 -0600; <<I believe it would "ruin all the fun".>> WHY has NOone mentioned the "fun" in removing said pantyhose from the "donor"??? Enquiring minds................. Rick; /html/triumphs/2005-02/msg00064.html (7,894 bytes)

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