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  1. Oil's Good old Penrite v Dynolite

    in TR4/4A Forum

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    Hi Mick & Lain Thanks very much for coming back to me, As they say every day is a school day. So the one thing I have definitely learnt from this post is clearly use the search feature before you post….

    As an old radio engineer I should have realised that you should RX before TX’sing

    once again thanks and I’m off to read the abundance of advice previously sought

    James --- ..- -

  2. Oil's Good old Penrite v Dynolite

    in TR4/4A Forum

    Posted

    Hi all was looking for a bit of advice about oil, so for many years I’ve been using Penrite oil 20w50, one point I tried 20w60 seem to me that at hotter running temperatures the oil gauge seem to go lower so swap back to 20w50..

     

    Anyway so here’s the question, My oil supplier has stopped supplying Penrite oil he said that it just became too expensive, so he is now supplying Dynolite which I know nothing about. Is anyone using this oil and what grade, website and leaflets talk about 20w50,20w60 and 40w70,,relatively comfortable with the first two however 40w70 not quite with you on this ,

    Any help would be much appreciated

    thanks in advance James………………………………..

    TR4A&TR5

  5. TR5 headlight switch?

    in TR5/250 Forum

    Posted

    Hi All

    well that’s give me a lot to think about my hand book shows it on the right as you look at the steering wheel and the faint sticker on the switch cover shows the lighting switch to be on the right, my 5 is a UK car and has had 4 owners and I have met all of them, and the first one is still breathing however in the mid 80’s it was shockingly maintained, and from 1994,to when I got it in 1998 an non-Triumph garage dealer butchered it, so nothing would surprise me.

     

    So what I am going to do is order a LHD one and see how I go I am hoping to be using the original stork

    James...............................

  6. TR5 headlight switch?

    in TR5/250 Forum

    Posted

    Hi All in my 5 the headlight switch is on the right-hand side of the steering Colom, and the positions are

     

    Top=off middle side light bottom side & headlight

    So, when I got one from a supplier it was

    Top= side & headlight middle sides and bottom=off

    Can anyone throw some light on this (pardon the pun) have I ordered the wrong one ??????????

    James……………….

  9. Shed me how much (to Day at Sandown Park)

    in TR4/4A Forum

    Posted

    Hi All

    So I was browsing through some of the online auctions as you do and I came across A TR4 which was pleasantly described as

     

    This car is described by the vendor as a solid example of the Triumph TR4, first registered in February 1963 ,The car is a one owner vehicle and comes with the original log book.

     

    I went and looked at this car today and the best way I could describe it was it was a solid but certainly a barn find. So I stayed to see if it would even make Guide Price: £8,000 to £11,000.

     

    some i was quite shocked when the bidding went up and over 15,000 pounds then past 18,000 pounds and here it seemed to falter for a bit then carefully and very tentatively settled, are you ready for this 24,300 pounds plus all the auction fees. what she am I missing here SHED me.

     

    And as several hours later I still can't believe it and I don't believe I'm writing this post what is going on with a classic car market.............. James

     

    http://www.barons-auctions.com/auction_details.php?aid=15&cid=575

     

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  10. Wailing TR4a

    in TR4/4A Forum

    Posted

    Hi Ed

    The video posted earlier is absolutely priceless showed it to her indoors but she wasn't that impressed.

     

    Anyway to the problem in hand Ed do you have the Cowlings fitted on the back of your disks at the front sometimes a stone gets up between the Cowlings and the disk. This normally results in quite a high pitched squealing noise then as the disk wheres the stone away it falls out of its own accord leaving you wondering what was that noise

    James

  11. Scammer alert

    in TR5/250 Forum

    Posted

    Hi John

    After sale probably wouldn't let goods leave my premises until the cash in my hands or the check had previously cleared.

     

    I've done a bit of looking into this on Google and it is looking like it's turning out to be an identity scan.

     

    When you get some of these unsolicited E mails if you some of sentences you can see where they turn up in other forums.

    James...........

  12. Scammer alert

    in TR5/250 Forum

    Posted

    Hi All

    I received a similar e-mail and at the risk of appearing stupid kinder don't understand where the scam is

     

    Here a copy of the E mail I received

     

    Jackie Braze <kuvosky12@gmail.com>

    Jan 17 at 6:55 PM

    To james kearney

    Message body

    Hello,
    Thanks for the quick response about the product am buying from
    you,anyway the price is OK by me but i will like you to know that
    payment will be made by Check..
    If this mode of payment is OK by you. Kindly send your information
    which you will like to receive the payment from the post man, so that
    i can instruct my secretary to issued it immediately

    Name to be on Check....
    Address where Check..will be received by you:.......
    Phone Number's such as Mobile,Land line and Office number:....
    Asking Price.........

    Never mind about the pick up, it will be after you must have cleared
    the payment from your Bank Account.
    Await your Quick Response so that i can arrange for the payment immediately.

    Thanks and Get back

     

    -----------------------------------------End------------------------------------------------------------

     

     

    So I attached some photos and sent them to him or her?????????

     

    I then received an e-mail asking for my home address which I did not send since then I haven't heard any more as a said earlier I just don't get it

     

     

    James, a

  14. high pitch tone from new alternator ? has me stumped

    in TR5/250 Forum

    Posted

    Winner Winner chicken dinner

     

    Yep it terms out to be the rectifier circuit, it looks like one of the diode is faulty.

    So back to the supplier what a faff.

     

    You do have to love them (the supplier)

     

    I phoned them to explain the problem that I was having and was met with mmmmm are you sure it has been put on the car right, did you get the part from us? when did it arrive and the best one (bearing in mine he is talking to a customer (Me) well that's a new one, haven't herd that be for I will have to put that one the book.

     

    Shame I was not in the show room it would not have been the book I would have tried to put it in

     

    But thanks to all who have helped on this one

    James..............................

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