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  • Birthday 04/01/1947

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    Lancaster UK
  • Cars Owned:
    Race Vitesse (last in UK), GT40 kit car in construction, Peugeot 208 GTE, TRansit Mk6 race truck

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  1. That eruption has died down now. But it was most spectacular! Look on YouTube for a real time episode from AndreB (e acute accent)! It just burst from the earth, and develops into an enormous fire fountain in seconds. John
  2. All, I hope to be out at Donington with the CSCC that weekend. Forecast is hopeful, dry and some sun, but cold. Two TRs, Graham Wilson and Roy Chamberlain in my grid (Swinging 60s Race 2), with a Spitfire in Race one. Practice at 1055, Race at 1540. I have some spare tickets if you like to PM me. John
  3. TR Rob, All we need is another to repeat what RobH and I have said, and we have a Snark! ("What I tell you three times is true!")
  4. With respect, ChrysW, there is nothing worse for a TR PI engine than infrequent use, while starting and running it more often. Sooted plugs and clogged injectors are the result, as Andy has indicated. Spring is here! Time to get it out on the road! Next year, bed it down for the winter in a nice, well ventilated garage, with some fuel stabiliser in the tank and run through the engine, tyres over inflated (with a note on them to re-adjust next spring) and fully antifrozen . Leave it alone until the Spring! Have a good time! John
  5. Rob, Do you have a "pre-engaged" starter, AKA "Hi-Torque" - it doesn't look like OE equipment. Easy to tell,.t not from the angle of your photo, but the extra wires from the main starter terminal are a clue. A pre-engaged has a second, cylinder on top of (or below) the main motor cylinder, like this, from Rimmer's catalogue: The second cylinder is a servo, that throws the starter pinion at the flywheel gear ring to engage. Only after that has happened will the servo connect the starter motor, so if the servo fails (dull click) will the motor turn. If you ha
  6. But French Racing Blue, Blue de France, is a specific shade, with a "Hex triplet" which seems to be an industry identifier, of its own, #318CE7! So does Italian Rosso red (#D40000), but I suppose that German silver isn't a colour, just the appearance of sanded aluminium! John
  7. John, hi, we exchanged info on my tr6 pulley, eventually got the time to look at the said item this weekend, when eventually got the pulley off i have discovered that the reason for the 8 degree of movement is that some person in the past has used something like liquid metal to make up a very worn keyway groove, although the key has a tiny chip at the very front end i think i have been lucky with regard to no damage to the crank or keyway slot, you mentioned testing, do you have a pulley i could buy at all please, although the pulley i believe is still hermetically bonded obvoiusly the keyway would require repairing,do you have an opinion on the pulley/damper Rimmers sell, ie accuracy of timing marks etc ?

     

    Chris 07886752970

  8. Peter,

    My paper has a small column saying that on Iceland, Katla  is NOT about to blow, but is emtting tens of thopusands of tons of CO2 daily.  1% of the UKs dialy emission.

    See https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018GL079096   (I think - the Guardaian  didn't give a proper reference)

    Is this reassuring, about a mega eruption, or not?

    John

  9. We've had threads before about ceramic coating for exhaust pipes, and if they work or not. Well, now we the word, literally from the horse's mouth. And not just any horse, but the black rampant stallion of Ferrari. This month's Racecar Engineering features Ferrari's 2014 F1 power unit, the 059/4. It says "The exhausts swathed in thermal protection, something that Ferrari did not do for much of the season, baffling many as this lost heat ...the recoverable energy" And a picture of said swathing, not a ceramic coating, but a fireproof fibrous jacket, covered with a reflective outer su
  10. Kevin, Thank you for your enterprise and organisation you even bot us good weather - well, small drizzle after lunch but no bodies perfect! Excellent day, I enjoyed it AND the company! John
  11. Was the day's programme published before, Kev, or will it be? What's the time to turn up to get the most track time, please? John
  12. Just managed a late booking! Then, went on to browse the 'Net a little, and visit the Astronomical Picture of the Day (APoD), a favourite of mine. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html22/6/15 That reminds us that on that same day, 14th July, and at a UK favourable time, ten to noon, GMT (so near 11am, Summer Time), the New Horizons probe will be at its closest to Pluto. Wholly irrelevant, but another sort of excitement. I'll bring my radio, to hear the 12 O'clock news! John
  13. You know it makes sense! What's the problem, if it keeps traders - for this is a commercial venture, not a holy marque one - in contact with owners? John
  14. If this grumpy Hooray Henry Hater felt obliged to try one of these, which should he avoid? JOhn
  15. Graham. The spacer, found on top of the LH front susp.spring of US GT6s and possibly Spitfires? See: http://club.triumph.org.uk/cgi-bin/forum10/Blah.pl/Blah.pl?m-1299676321/s-48/#num48

    I heard of this before, but assumed it was a dealer-fitted mod, to cater for the, ahem, weight challenged US owner. Or was it a standard addition? Do you know which? And why?

    Thanks,

    John

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