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Re: dustcovers

To: clshore@yahoo.com, njaremka@yahoo.com, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: dustcovers
From: "Earl Smith" <earl56@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:36:24 GMT
Sounds like that could be bad for the frontend
Earl
>
>Hey,
>Here's a technique I heard about (DO NOT TRY THIS).
>
> > Dribble a little gunpowder in through the dust cover
> > vent hole. Using one of those loooong barbeque
> > matches, hold the lighted end next to the 'touch
> > hole' (stand back!).
> > If the dust cover still does not come off (or if you
>
> > cannot find it afterwards), obtain a new unit.
>
>Mmmm, well, maybe not such a good idea.
>
>--- nikolai jaremka <njaremka@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > i would think that would be a little over-kill for a
> > small 1.5" dust cover.
> > but then i'm not an experienced mechanic either.
> >
> >
> > --- Tburke4@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > In a message dated 1/26/00 6:05:48 AM Pacific
> > Standard Time,
> > > njaremka@yahoo.com writes:
> > >
> > > << i've never had success doing it the way you
> > described.  whenever i've
> > > tried it
> > >  that way, i end up crushing the cap.
> > >   >>
> > >
> > > An experienced mechanic I spoke to recommended
> > using a slide hammer threaded
> > > into the small hole in the dustcover. I haven't
> > tried that as yet, though.
> > >
> > > Tom Burke
> > > 80 Spitfire Snowdrift
> > >
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> >
>Do You Yahoo!?



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