>Jarrid
> That person was me. I bought a driver dog from Moss for the Lucas
>distributor. The dog is too tall and needs to be ground down to 3/8".
Clever! Using the distributor drive cog saves one of the two major machine opperations.
>A friend of mine (Keith, are you reading this) managed to rework the oil
>pump from an early Series car using parts of a later series car, so that
>he didn't have to build a spacer. Unfortunately, his method requires
>removing the engine to get at the oil pump, but if your motor is out, the
>conversion can be done.
Since the sump can be removed with the engine in the car, the oil pump can easily be replaced while in the car as well.
The only component that must be removed is the distributor, which must be removed so the oil pump shaft can be phased to the engine position at #1 TDC.
Jarrid
ue, 7 Jul 1998 11:54:52 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-Msmail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-alpines(at)autox.team.net Precedence: bulk Reply-To: "Rich Atherton" <gumby(at)connectexpress.com>
Only the Tigers need to be inspected. There's no point in spending the Man hours to look at cars that are not being cloned. No one is going to take a TR-4, and rebody it as an Alpine. Just report what the car is, and what you, or some previous owner has done to it, and its current configuration. for your small fee, you'll receive a plaque and rivets which lists the information you have provided. I think this should be done by anyone who is modifying an Alpine for whatever reason. If there is interest from other modle owners, like the IMP, Minx, etc, then maybe other plaques could be done for the same reason. Thse are NOT to track the Authenticity of these other cars because NO ONE is going to forg one. These are only for peice of mind to track the modifications that many people like to do. Howmany Series I, II, III, or IV are running around with different engine/tranny combination that what the car came with originally? Lots of you !! Why not document those changes! With these cars, changing the engines, probably won't degrade the cars value except by those who want a perfect car, and they already know what they are looking for. If you car is for sale and someone wants a perfect one, they can look at the plate, and see what's been done, and they determine if it's reversible or not. They'll see the plate's contact information, and if they are interested, can have all of the details on that car faxed directly to them. They then decide if they want the car or not. There are no questions for Authenticity......All of the cars are Authentic...Only Tigers have been cloned, and TAC covers that for the most part.
Rich