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Send me a PM mate. I have given up smoking, but I still enjoy a good cough now and again. Here, maybe I can get this idea for an Acclaim convertible I have off the drawing board. :)
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J - I'm pleased I didn't upset you with my banter. :) Here's an interesting thread (I hope) for you to peruse: http://club.triumph.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum10/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?m-1243500206/s-new/
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It's running leaner as it runs out of fuel, (less fuel - more air), so it's another marvellous indication that it's over-rich, I'd say. What's the prize? I'm in Tetbury btw and although I know SFA about Acclaims, I can come over with a lit match for you, if you get very frustrated, and help you claim the insurance. :)
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1379 wrote:I wonder if uksnatcher works at an exhaust fitting establishment? ::) PDU - I think Gaz works in one of those outlets that sells and fits wheels and 'zorsts.... :)
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Andy, I've found: http://club.triumph.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum10/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?m-1286737334/s-18/highlight-hi+torque+starter+/#num18 - for you - and: http://club.triumph.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum10/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?m-1291649510/s-8/highlight-isuzu+starter/#num8 - and even better, I think: [Sorry, link no longer available] I hope one or the other helps. LAST one seems to have more details, although unfortunately a lot of the links are to eBay, and of course the item's aren't there any longer. We may need to convince Bod to help out. Again. And Canleys, of course!
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They're lovely John - I was mugged out of a set just like that, in a moment of weakness. :-/ Please put the fact that you're a polisher in your signature would you? Lot's of people around here are in denial. ;)
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Worse still, it won't make much of a connection with the cap still on that positive pole......... :P
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4196 wrote:Is yours a wheel barrow type? Thank you, that's "the Starship Enterprise" type, if you don't mind. [s]Flop it Flap it[/s] Fish it out by all means, my piscine-loving old mate.
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"Unconvertible". ;)
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Nice work Brad. Doc - I said they weren't cheap didn't I? Set's for the GT6 3 and the later Spitfires haven't been around that long, and I nearly got in on the first set half-price as a "trial" customer... Now I wish I'd committed at the time. :-/
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Nice work Brad. Doc - I said they weren't cheap didn't I? Set's for the GT6 3 and the later Spitfires haven't been around that long, and I nearly got in on the first set half-price as a "trial" customer... Now I wish I'd committed at the time. :-/
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Cyril The Herald (1968 13/60 Restoration)
smithy replied to Cyril_The_Herald's topic in Triumph Chat
^^ It is isn't it? A bulkhead, i wonder. -
Cyril The Herald (1968 13/60 Restoration)
smithy replied to Cyril_The_Herald's topic in Triumph Chat
Hiya! I've no idea what that panel is. I've looked at Rimmer Brothers and Canley Classics web sites for you (where you will doubtless be looking yourselves soon - although there are LOTS of vendors to ring around, of course), and I'm trying to decide if M49 DOORFRAME BOTTOM REPAIR RH might fit the bill, or perhaps M75 FOOTWELL REPAIR - HER/VIT R/H. It may well be neither. Someone clever will be along in a minute (Bill! Bill!) I'm sure, and tell you definitively. I suspect you may also need help and advice from CT in the North or South Yorkshire groups; if I were you I'd make their acquiantance.... Welcome aboard and thanks for your web site too. It's marvellously naive, wonderfully "Rainbow" in tone (if you remember your old kids TV shows - and don't mind me saying so), and makes me miss my less cynical youth terribly. Please keep it up. Best of luck! -
Where'd that copyright video, with enhanced sound tweaked by a specialist engineer, come from? ;D (It badly wants cropping).
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Jason - I suspect that the exhausts supplied through Moss (Triumph Tune, right?) are likely to be third party, no? I haven't had a look at their web site. "Loud" and "Quiet" versions eh? Whatever next! Tarka - I'm looking forward to shouting in your ear when you and I meet up - WE WILL PROBABLY NEED TO BELLOW. What do you make of the Bell system? Unbearably loud in yours? As BO cunningly pointed out, the unconvertibles like yours make things louder. Fake GT6 rag-tops like mine probably let the sound out (as they're letting the water in), perhaps. :)
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cliftyhanger wrote:Indeed, smithys numax is as they came from the factory. And yes, I MUCH prefer the terminals at the rear. (now waiting for a reply from smithy ;D ) Hmmm. Still thinking of one Clive. :)
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Eh? :P :P
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In my experience, not having taken them to a metal-finisher for his opinion, nothing I tried for myself brought mine back up to standard, so I had the front one re-chromed (which is now OK), and I left the rear one alone. I also acquired a dent-free rear one to get chromed seperately, but haven't gotten around to doing so. And it ain't cheap, chroming. Now available - which weren't then - stainless steel bumpers produced in Vietnam - see eBay. Very nice indeed. Very expensive indeed. Better than re-chroming though IMO. (Sorry! No positives!)
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In my experience, not having taken them to a metal-finisher for his opinion, nothing I tried for myself brought mine back up to standard, so I had the front one re-chromed (which is now OK), and I left the rear one alone. I also acquired a dent-free rear one to get chromed seperately, but haven't gotten around to doing so. And it ain't cheap, chroming. Now available - which weren't then - stainless steel bumpers produced in Vietnam - see eBay. Very nice indeed. Very expensive indeed. Better than re-chroming though IMO. (Sorry! No positives!)
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How come everyone but me says Bell systems are loud? I've had mine on since the 80's and I'M NOT DEAF IN FACT IT'S QUITE A PLEASANT NOISE. No really, it is. It ain't loud.
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Full marks all round to Clive. Here's a pic of mine just after I got it and was trial-fitting. Numax, and also available in black! Have a Google.
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Comme ca: Laurie - not THAT kind of wedgie. Ouch. ;D
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Hmmm, I like yours M., but I do like straps 'cos then there's some fore-and aft for banging the boxes into things and having them stay on. Also not smashing the diff carrier, maybe. I don't ever like disagreeing with you though matey! ;D Wim's is set-up so that the rear boxes hitting something hard will pull them right off the hangers though - not sure mine are that way around (I'll have to look again). They're a good height!
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John-o, five-spoke Revolutions are the best by far. Spit, GT6, Herald, Vitesse, Dolomite and your TR7 share a 3 3/4" (95.25mm) P.C.D. - but I'm sorry, beyond that I can't help. A wedgie bloke will be along soon I'm sure!
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I refer my learned colleague to the post I made previously.