Mjit
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They should be torqued, and specifically to 20 lbf. ft.
...At least that's what it says on page 06.1 of the Triumph Spitfire IV Repair Operations Manual, 3rd edition! (though I wonder if anyone has ever done that)
I think the "hand tight + quater turn" is what's usually printed on the spark plug box isn't it?
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3 hours ago, bob_9447 said:
Just screw in by hand until the Plug hits the head (cylinder head!), then a further quarter turn. That used to be the manufacturers instructions in the 60s and 70s.
Which isn't much different to what the NKG video has for one of our spek plugs - "B*" plugs are 14mm so finger tight then 1/2 to 2/3 turn for a brand new plug (new crush washer) or 1/12 turn if refitting an existing one (pre-crushed crush washer).
And @micklewis while you're chart does have different torques for iron/alloy heads for our plugs that 34-45Nm vs. 35-40Nm - so assuming you're aiming for the middle of the range basically the same.
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Here's a YouTube video all about tightening NGK spark plug, posted by a company called Niterra...who used to be known as NGK Spark Plug Co. so might just know what they are talking about!
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Also worth trying Wins - https://www.winsinternational.co.uk/
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Not really thread drift, I mean there's Ethanol in alcoholic drinks!
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18 hours ago, Chris A said:
National news here reported on the moves to ban tobacco. Is the next move to ban booze, after all it has the same negative 'qualities'? 🥃🚬
Not sure alcohol is classed as addictive in the same way as nicotine/opioids/etc but rather some people are susceptible to psychological addiction or forming a dependency on consuming it. The difference being that stopping consuming things like alcohol/caffeen/etc generally make you an irritable dick for a few days/weeks while stopping taking a properly addictive compound causes physical pain.
There's a strong case for limiting alcohol sales, I mean who's buying a 2.5l bottle of White Lightening as a sipping drink? But an outright ban's highly unlikely - if for no other reason than countries that have introduced alcohol prohibitions in the past have almost all seen increases in alcohol consumption and also increases in alcohol related medical costs (as black market hooch doesn't tend to uphold quite the same safety standards as legal stuff).
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1 hour ago, Colin Lindsay said:
Cannabis is supposed to be good for you and cures all woes as well as easing all pain. It's cool, hip and trendy and if you don't understand that, you're just a spoilsport.
Yep, Cannabis on its own isn't actually addictive and doesn't have any significant negative health impacts - but is illegal. Tobacco is addictive and does have proven, serious negative health impacts - but had a stream of MPs opposed to plans to make it illegal in a phased in way that wouldn't impact current legal addicts.
1 hour ago, Colin Lindsay said:Back in those days, too, criminals were actually guilty. It's only recently that enquiry after enquiry and retrial after retrial has let a lot of them off on 'technicalities' and found that a huge number were in fact innocent because, although they actually did the crime, a Policeman somewhere noted down a different time from his colleague. Of course nowadays we have trial by television show or movie. "Did you do it? "Yes I did, sorry." 50 years later: "Did he do it? "Audience: "Of course not, he was stitched up." I'm actually a great fan of old folk music and it's amazing how many of them were in fact 'stitched up by agents of the Crown' going right back to the Year Zero - the original (pun intended) broken record...
So you stand by the convictions of the Birmingham 6, the Guildford 4, Stefan Kiszko, or to bring it up to date (as the legal system really hasn't gotten much better) all those thieving sub postmasters? By extension if criminals were actually guilty I assume all the non criminals were innocent back in the day and it's only trial by TV that's recently found them guilty? People like Jimmy Savile, etc?
There are no "Good Old Days" - or "Good New Days" either, just "Days".
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21 hours ago, Wagger said:
Everything was better in the 'Old' days for me anyway. Job hopping was a doddle. Minor offences received warnings without compulsory fines. Fuel was cheap, as was beer, bread, milk etc. You were encouraged to do all of your own maintenance and it was easy to find good tradesmen via recommendation.
Of course the flip side are things like; blue asbestos was a wonder material you could just cut and sand in an enclosed space, many police were happy to make the evidence fit the suspect not the other way around, cigarette were considered good for you, etc
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Geez, can you imagine how some of the people who think the ULEZ is the end of the world would react if you sent them to Japan? Never mind the number of toll roads and low emission zones I think their brains might turn to jelly when they walked into the car showroom and were told they couldn't buy a car without proof they had a parking space!
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2 hours ago, PeteH said:
You mean the same as has happened Historically for the Last "N" Millenia?. Just that without global media, and high general ignorance, was all put down to "act of god". So the religious orders could rake more money into their coffers and retain their hold on power?. One good extended Volcanic activity, ** throw`s more carbon into the atmosphere than mankind has done in the last 200years. Mankinds contribution is Puny, and the UK`s even smaller. 99.1% of which WE have no control over.
The REAL global issue, is FAR TO MANY PEOPLE. But they are needed by those who control the finance, feed the paranoia, and use to make even more money and cement their power base. Oh! and of course ferment wars to sell armaments for even more profit?
**, Ask yourself how much carbon and other pollutants the current activity in Iceland is creating?.
Pete
Please stop reading the Daily Mail and those posts random people forward you on Facebook, neither are good for you.
Yes, volcanic activity does release a huge amount of green house gases, always has, always will - but is us adding MORE GHGs going to be making thing better or worse? It's like having a paint chip expose the metal on your Triumph. Ignoring it won't make it go away and over time it will start to rust - but dousing it in salt water will make it rust faster.
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11 hours ago, JohnD said:
You don't mean Routemasyer buses that were too expensive to run? The £5 MILLLION he spent on Boris Island Airport? Buying water cannon; the cross-Thames cable car; the conversion of the Olympic stadium and the ArcelorMittal Orbit helter-skelt. All costing nearly a BILLION pounds. And all failed. His only success as London Mayor was his own vanity.
Yea but there were the Boris bikes. They've been successful.
Oh, hold on. That was all set in motion by Ken wasn't it but didn't hit the streets until Brois was in office and the press love an alliteration too much to NOT call them "Boris Bikes".
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15 hours ago, Graham C said:
Mjit, the problem with London is that they have become the centre of the country so attract the largest population, service industries, etc hence high use of personnel transport. I do believe the most capital per head for public transport is spent in London than anywhere in the country which does not seem to work in reducing your pollution at present.
Actually London has some of the lowest per-capita personal transport usage in the country, quite simply because across much of London public transport options are so good you don't need a car - and a car's usually the slowest way to get from A to B.
15 hours ago, Graham C said:HS2 confirmed the idea that everything revolved around London, as the project always reference reduced times to get to London.
Stop falling for the marketing/PR story. HS2 was never about reducing journey times between London and Birmingham/the North West but about the fact the section of the existing, originally LMS route between London and Birmingham and providing access to the North West is at capacity. In short the train operators want to run more services on that route but there isn't any space to add more trains on the existing lines - and much of the route is boxed in with no room to lay extra tracks without massive compulsary purchases and demolitions...and if you're going to do that why would you do it on the slow, twisty, convoluted route the current tracks follow when you could put in a much straighter, modern high speed route - which has the side effect of being quicker and so reducing the journey time?
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18 hours ago, PeteH said:
Yes, BUT we only have control over 0.9% of the carbon output. Which would mean that even if we bankrupted the country, and made 50million lives more miserable in many ways in the process of acheiving zero?. We will still be suffering the effects of 99.1% of the world carbon emision over which we have absolutely No control.
At a guess something like 0.9% of the worlds homicides occure in the UK so, by your logic we should do anything to try and reduce the numbers as it's not going to make any real impact on the total number of homicides?
SOMEONE has to take a lead and so be able to speak from the moral high ground, saying "Yes you CAN do it, we have.". Question is, does the UK want to just be a country of sheep who follow or the world leader we like to claim to be?
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19 hours ago, Colin Lindsay said:
It's got nowt to do with Global anything, it's due to the fact that someone died recently from (I think) asthma caused by association with road fumes. Reduction of UK Road Traffic or at least increased revenue from same is the goal to fund TFL alternatives.
Yep, London's air quality was (probably still is) below WHO 'safe' levels and was sited by the coroner in 2020 as making a "material contribution" in his ruling on the death of 9 year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah in 2013. At that point in time some piece of national legislation had been passed that made local government responsible for NOT breaching WHO 'safe' levels and so the Mayor of London had to do something to at least show steps were being taken or else the London Assembly would be facing a line of solicitors queuing out the door with claims for compensation. This of course gives us the almost comical situation of the Conservative party campaining for the Mayors job on the basis of him introducing the ULEZ, something he (or Shaun Bailey had he won for the Conservatices in 2020) had little choice about doing...due to national legislation passed by the Conservative government.
And for the anti-ULEZ crowd I'm interested to hear what alternative solutions people on here can suggest to (mitigate the huge legal costs of not being at least seen to be doing anything to) tackle air quality that don't involve using the stick of charging polluters and using the money to fund the carrot of providing cheap public transport alternatives...
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One bit I found very confusing was they had a chassis with a bent D/S hinge box and front chassis rail so to "save money" bought an entire Spitfire chassis for £250. A Spitfire chassis with a rusty D/S front chassis rail. To replace the damaged D/S chassis rail/hinge box, parts you can buy for less than £250... Ech?
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You'd prefer the London Assembly to be spending significant sums of money on some rigid, inflexible system that would need to be completely rebuilt (at the same full cost of building the current system) should a future Mayor want to change things?
I did enjoy watching the Conservative Mayorial election party political broadcast last night. There wasn't a single mention of what their candidate would do if elected just 100% "evil Khan", to the point I expected a video clip of James T Kirk going "Khan!!!!". And I have to say "their candidate" as the only mention of them was their name/photo being flashed up for 1s at the end so all I was able to take from it was they they were female.
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While you probably don't need a relay with LED headlights it's not going to hurt to fit one.
As for where to fit it I don't know the Dolly 1500 wire diagram but I'd bet there's a 4-way bullet connector just behind the front panel where a single feed wire splits into two wires, one to the left headlight the other to the right. Given where the battery sits I'd bet you can find a convienient bolt near it to mount a relay+inline fuse then you can:
- Unplug the current, single 'input' wire from the 4-way connector.
- Connect that to the input side of the low current/switching side of the relay (normally pin 86) + a new earth wire from the output side of the low current/switching side of the relay (normally pin 85) to a convienient earth point. The light switch now powers the relay switching circuit.
- Connect a new wire from the battery +ve terminal, via the inline fuse, to the input side of the high current/swiched side of the relay (normally pin 30) + a new wire from the output side of the high current/switched side of the relay (normally pin 87) to the newly vacated hole in the 4-way bullet connector. You now have a direct battery->fuse->relay->headlight circuit.
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21 hours ago, PeteH said:
Very few Business`, certainly the smaller ones, run their own website, it`s usually been put together by some "consultant" using a downloaded blank. Or occsionally the M-D`s whizz kid son?. You can buy one of the net, fill the boxes and upload.
Pete
Do they also print an out-of-date phone number and the address the business was at 6 years ago?
Like it or not, just like the 1/4 page ad. in the magazine a website is a marketing channel for the business, one that currently doesn't shout "We're compitent, reliable and keep an eye on the details". If you don't want a website/just an email address don't put the website address in your print ads!
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Hey, could be worse. I mean you could have a full colour advert for your business on page 41 of the brand new look Courier magazine...including a website address that doesn't work.
They aren't too far from me so I was going to check them out but not sure I'll bother if they can't even run a website.
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That's basically what I did with index cards - but without bothering to re-inflate the tyre. Certainly if you're using rattle cans you're unlikely to blow out something lightly tucked into the gap between rim and tyre.
Deffinetly a lot quicker that any tape method!
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9 hours ago, PeteH said:
The reason for "intercoolers" as I recall, is to reduce the Air Temperature and increase it`s (specific) density, allowing the air charge mass reaching the combustion chamber to be capable of supporting the "burn" of a greater volume of fuel and increasing the power?
Broadly correct - but unless you're installing some water spray or dry ice bath (which only really applies to dragsters) you're not going to cool the charge below ambiant air temperature.
The reason they are used on super/turbo charged engines is that the charger forced a volume of air into a space with a smaller volume, increading its pressure over atmospheric and, given there's no such thing as a free lunch in thermodynamics, increasing the temerature of the air in that smaller space. This means more oxygen atoms end up in the cylinder - but not as many as you could have and also causes other temerature issues. An intercooler lets you remove some of the extra heat compressing the charge via the charger added, meaning a cooler (then non-intercooled) charge in the cylinder so a few more oxygen atoms and fewer other temperature related issue.
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29 minutes ago, JohnD said:
It's a further mystery why Triumph provided TWO air inlets to the small chassis cars' air boxes. It's a well known factor and must have been to their designers, that the resistance to flow along a tube varies as the fourth power of the radius. That's RxRxRxR. Halve the radius and the resistance rises SIXTEEN times! (2 to the power of 4, 2^4) Instead of the two, a single intake duct with double the radius would have sixteen times more flow under the same conditions!
While your math is (I'm assuming) correct you (a skint Triumph) can easilly weld two ~1" sections of cheap, straight pipe into the end of a ~1.5" deep airbox but for a single piece of 2" pipe you either need a straight pipe and 2.5" deep airbox, which could fowl the inner wheel arch or a flaired pipe and 1.5" deep airbox, which is an additional manufacturing process so additional cost.
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18 hours ago, Pete Lewis said:
crazy program aimed at plonkers sorry its very poor
I happened to spot it playing while flicking channels so added a series link to record all episodes...which I deleted again after getting to the next ad break it was that underwhelming.
Why can't we get some actually interesting/different classic car shows, like the old A Car Is Born series? Why instead do we have only; one half decent one in Wheeler Dealers, one just about passable one that you can watch in 30 min. by skipping all the back story/handover BS in Car SOS, one to watch and think .oO(Are these guys actually trying to lose money?!?!)Oo. to watch when there's nothing else on in Bangers & Cash: Restoring Classics, and a couple of others that just aren't worth watching.
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Have my new look Courier and all very high quality and professional - but I can't help thinking it must be expensive too?
Spitfire MkIV/1500 Windscreen Fitting
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So I know this is a topic that's been covered before and I've read those threads - but stepping out armed with a new windscreen, Baines rubber, black gutter sealant, long length of thin cord, etc I sort of fell at the first couple of hurdles.
1) Looking at the silver plastic "C" section trim currently fitted to the car the longer leg of the "C" is fitted into a slit in the rubber just around from the slot the glass is in - and then it just sits there, the other, short leg of the "C" isn't in anything, the tip of the leg just rests against the rubber (with no sign of a second slit for it to go in). Is that correct?
2) From what I can see the seal currently fitted just has; a slot with ridges around it that the glass sits in, a slit one leg of the silver plastic "C" trim slots in, then a slit/slot that goes either side of the car body.
My new seal has a similar wide, ridged slot that I assume is for the glass, then a slot which would be the one the single leg of the "C" trim goes in - but then I have a sort of channel slightly thinner than the ridged glass one, with the 'outside' lip a little taller than the 'inside' one AND a second slit, further around 'inside' of that. It feels like that uneven sided channel might be the opposite side to the glass channel but I'm now confused if I've got it the wrong way around/the wrong rubber/or what.
Worst case I'll just bring it to SEM next Sunday and wander around dragging a windscreen rubber and asking random people 😁