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Re: [Spits] Timing chain cover nut

To: OKCSpitfire <OKCSpitfire@sbcglobal.net>, spitfires@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spits] Timing chain cover nut
From: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 05:29:59 -0800 (PST)
It would be more accurate to say that "they BUILT cars
that ..."

British auto design and manufacturing collapsed years
ago, especially after the Japanese auto industry rose.

As for getting the crankshaft nut off, I always use a
big plumber's monkey wrench.  I fit it over the nut
with the handle resting on the frame rail, and hit the
starter.

Doug Braun
'72 Spit


--- OKCSpitfire <OKCSpitfire@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I have
> visited the Brits sites
> and they seem to have a relatively low opinion of
> Americans but I am
> beginning to wonder about their ingenuity. They
> build cars that rust at
> will, they make them to where you can't get the hubs
> off the rear axles and
> now I have discovered that they assume the mighty
> little 4 cylinder engine
> has as much torque as a Detroit diesel so the used a
> huge bolt that also
> can't be removed. 
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