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Dan Miller

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  1. hee hee... update... I did a trailer run and emptied the old garage at the weekend... and wow... I am such a hoarder, and a tool-fetish!!! I think I used to be made of money or found novel ways of spending the shopping budget when I was married haa haa... anyway, I have all my bits, and am now happily spending the evenings sorting out my new man cave :-)... just have to retrieve the spare bonnet and old radiator, and I am moved out of the garage... next is the shed and the attic haa haa
  2. it was the unofficial TSSC page.... I never know which one I am on LOL
  3. did that last week... ran a wee syndicate, £46 on the euro... we won £8.90. we put it back in for the Wednesday normal lotto and won £25 we bought 5 scratch cards at a fiver each and won £5 on one of them bought a 6th card and lost... it was fun but someone unrewarding hee hee...
  4. thanks pete... gave the girlfriend a tour of the car (you can see her in the drivers seat). had a discussion on the Facebook page about the potential colour she used to be and where to go next... the thought is that she was Saffron yellow (which is basically orange if you ask me) still need to finish cleaning out the garage to make room for the tools, then work will begin if it ever stops raining so I can pull her out onto the drive... I do not mind if it takes me 6 months or 6 years, she is dry and will live forever!!! and maybe one day, someone will car-SOS her for me haa haa
  5. whoop whoop she is back!!!!!! had to dig her out from under much rubbish and recycling, but she came out into the open where me and my mate transported her back to her new home while the ex was away on holiday ya!!!
  6. Hey Doug!! It is I !! I did not move to England in the end... it was close for a while there, but i was too afraid of the turmoil of moving countries... and then met a lovely local lady and the rest as they say, is history... I am dreading the eventual move of the engine-crane and the larger spare-parts, but I have many plans for my garage… especially as I will be putting a new kitchen in the house so all the old cabinets are coming to the garage... As well as maybe a water-butt, gravity fed sink… that would be a nice touch for cleaning up before going into the kitchen… not sure of rain over here LOL Then I might have to start actually working on Spitty once I have made her a nice new home J
  7. thank pete :-) My handle is unfortunately one that I took when I was an innocent college nerd back in the 90-'s and it stuck... though I have just worked out how to change my display name :-) Dan is officially back to torment you all :-)
  8. thanks for the encouragement John.. I am very excited. I actually went into garage where she resides, a few weeks back and had to do a tip-run to remove a mattress, multiple boxes and an old TV that has been placed on or around her by the ex-wife LOL... so at least she is ready to go... The bodywork I am hoping is much as I left her, as she is in a dry garage with plenty of air movement. I remembered to leave the hand brake off, so she should move freely when it comes to getting her onto a car trailer. also to be reunited with all my old tools will be great! lots of photos to follow for sure!! :-)
  9. Hi all... remember me? "the newbie engineer rebuilder with the spitty overheated" well, nearly 2 years ago I ran into a few personal issues, which meant spitty work came to an abrupt end and she was left in a garage in a town far far away (OK, 15 miles away in the ex-wife's garage but felt like a long time away...) 2 years on, and I have just bought a new house and it has a garage!! and no new style garage that you can barely fit a bike in... an actual 11ft wide garage. I am so excited to be able to retrieve Ms Spitty from her hiding place and get back to work on her... I literally have no idea where I am going to start... there is a garage full of spares of projects I had planned all that time ago, some of which I do not even recognise any more! (one is a metal bonnet to replace the rubbish fibreglass one on here at the moment). Last time she was started, was 2 years ago and she still had a over-heating problem post-rebuild (DIY job), so suspect that will have to be the starting point... but just thought I would share my excitement to get back in the game and look forward to being a grease monkey again some time soon... pending exchange of papers, hoping to have her back within 6 weeks... I have not ben keeping up with the forum after we lost the old one, but hoping many of the old faces have helped rebuild it to its former glory... the club and members of the TSSC are a truly admirable and amazing bunch of people.. I have missed you all! cheers dan
  10. sorry for newbie question... but I for some reason thought it was a 6 volt feed I needed for the gauges...
  11. I bought racing temp strips and put them on, and I watched them go up too high when she sat idling for the first time after the rebuild... it was a hot day but I am still worried about the temp of this thing... hoping the rebuild was not for nothing... however, on the first drive, I want to be able to be sure she is acting OK when under load so was hoping to have a reliable in-car view of things without having to stop every few mins to scan the temp.. (though I have one of them infrared gauges so will take it with me anyway on first drive to MOT to be sure) the club shop one seems awful expensive and no picture - 141 quids... I actually already bought a new oil pressure gauge but never got it fitted...
  12. guys is it possible to buy a newer style temp gauge for the spitfire that negates the need for the stand alone voltage regulator of doom? like one with a sensor, that goes to a gauge that just works and can be trusted?? I am determined to have an accurate reading before driving this car again.. one of the guys at work suggested I get a new style one like he has on his Westfield, I like the idea,.... thoughts? sacrilege?
  13. still a bit worried about how hot she runs... hoping as she runs in, she will cool down... the last thing I read about a hot spitty engine after everything else has been sorted, is the water pump housing itself... in that if corroded, it can hinder coolant flow... and the damn horn stopped working argghh!!!
  14. hi all loving the new forum yahoooooooo.... well, with a new forum, comes new news.... after a year and a month since the overheating incident, today I drove spitty up the cul-de-sac and back onto the drive way again, a complete car... I had spent the last few tinkering days trying to get the lights to work... and wait for it... they were not broken, I had forgotten about the switch in the middle of the dash... no joke... oh dear..... anyway, she ran pretty well after the rebuild, not idling well and the choke will not stay out even for a second so think I might have it too tight or something and need to mess with the idler... she worked fine when the sun was out a few weeks back but temp has dropped 10+ degrees here so might need to tweak her... brakes need bled, maybe the fluid renewed, so I have bought one of them compressor based bleeding systems (used one before and it was the only way I really got on with) was nice to sit in her again and drive her... I think a bit more work on the exhaust, brakes, and just a few checks, and she will be ready for MOT! (just in time for the end of the season haa haa) that's all for now!!! Dan
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