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In the Triumfest thread, I advocated an autotest event to be held on the Heritage Loop at Donington to augment the programme. And the best candidate to organise such an event has been told that the TSSC will consider ceasing affiliation with the Motor Sport Association, the governing body of four-wheeld UK motorsport. That affiliation provides enormous protection for any one seeking to run a motorsport event, even one as safe as Autotesting.
Will the membership be given to opportunity to give their opinion on this momentous matter?
John
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The icon in the top line says I have a message waiting.
I click and the little arrows go round and round without end.
Looking in My Messages, there are no new ones.
WIGO?
JOhn
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Thanks to the Cookie Monster for corection.
And as I've just found my calculator, 8000rpm at 50mph is 6.25mph per 1000rpm.
That implies enormous slip somewhere in the drive train, and only the gerabox and O/d clutches are possible culprits.
Try looking at the O/d filter for "black hairy bits"!
See Canley's Tach page and your WSM: http://www.canleyclassics.com/y.asp?xhtml=xhtml/infodatabase/overdrivesdtype.html&xsl=infodatabase.xsl
John
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Anyone with extensive aluminium alloy mods, such as the waterpump body, would do best to use a specific aluminium antifreeze.
But rear this FAQ page from Opie Oils: https://www.opieoils.co.uk/pdfs/tech-articles/coolant-antifreeze.pdf
JOhn
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Click on "View new content", top right, then select the period from the left hand column.
Or have you done this?
JOhn
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Or my age and wrinkles.
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Could it be that the degraded overdrive is losing traction when it's 'out' and in direct drive, as well as in 'overdrive' mode? Both rely on the cone clutch, but I'm no O/d expert.
While you still have the car in your garage, it's a simple process to check the diff ratio. It's been described so many times, but maybe not here on the new Messageboard, so;
Count the number of times the propshaft rotates for one rotation of the half shafts (both at the same time)
Then,
Just over four propshaft rotations = 4.11:1
Just under four rotations = 3.89:1
About three and half turns = 3.63:1
Just over three turns = 3.27:1
Only the last two were original to GT6 Mk3s
To make these observations, either:
Jack up the rear end and lie underneath(with extreme attention to safety! Axle stands, please) watch the propshaft turn as two helpers turn the back wheels.
OR, remove the gearbox cover and have your willing helpers push the car so that the rear wheels rotate once, while you sit in the cra and count the propshaft revs.
And I can say "Hear, hear!" to the restorers suggested above.
John
PS O/d should work only in Third and Fourth gears! Electric cut-out switch on 'box, disconnects the solenoid in Second and First. J.
PPS Congratulations on your choice of classic car! You could only do better by buying a Vitesse!
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Triumph engines (car or bike!) are notorious for oil leaks. In the small chassis series, four or six cylinder, the sump gasket is a guilty in many cases, and the DPO (Damned Previous Owner) is often at fault. Overtightening the sump bolts bells the metal around the holes in the sump flange, to that the falnge inbetween doesn't seal. Further tightenign just makes it worse, and the problem recurs even if you rebuild the engine, as the belling persists. To correct this, it's necessary to do some minor fettling to the sump flange. Here's how, with pictures.
If I can't post enough pics, complain to the TSSC, not me.
1/ Clean up your removed sump, especially the gasket residues on the flange. Do the same to the block. Apart from bits of old gasket preventing a seal, you can't work on a filthy sump.
2/ With a strong light behind, place a straight edge along the flange. The bells around the bolt holes will show up as light gleams through the slit. Mark the holes with a felt tip. See Pic.1.
3/ You need a 'post' in a vice. I use a length of steel plate, 1/2 x 2 x 6", but some hard wood could do as well, but ask a local metal working company if you may look in their skip for an offcut. It could be thicker, as long as it will fit inside the flange, and as wide as the the distance between holes, and the top must be flat. See Pics. 2 and 3.
4/ Hold the sump so that the hole you wish to correct is in the middle of the post, and the flange is flat on the post. I've drilled a smal hole there to help me locate it. Pic 4.
5/ Now, with a hammer, beat the bell around the hole flat. Use a small hammer, and do not apply great force - the blow should come from the elbow, not the shoulder. Half a dozen firm, not hard blows will often do, and you will hear the sound change from a ringing to a duller sound as the bell is flattened. See pic 5.
6/ Check the flange with the straigt edge again. Repeat the hammering until the gap that the light gleams through is straight. Your flange may not be absolutely flat, indeed slightly curved, but correcting that is a much bigger job, and this amount of curvature won't cause leaks. See Pic 6.
7/ When you fit the sump, do NOT overtighten the bolts. The 'Book' torque is 16-18 lbf/ft, which is a bit more than hand tight. What's 'Hand tight'? is hard as you can turn the bolt just using hand and wrist strength. What's "a bit more"? GIve the bolt a final tweak with the whole arm.
Hope that helps prevent sump leaks!
John
PS I now have 46kb for future picture posts. That is less than any of the small pics above, and I'll have to delete one of them to post another pic. You choose, please. J.
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No argument with Clive at all! A Vitesse 2l head on a set of domed pistons would make the compression a bit high. Like 14:1 high!
Convert to alcohol fuelling if you go down this route!
The actual height of the head would help tell if it has domes as it will be a full height 2.5 head. The point of the domes was to avoid the time and cost consuming machining of the same casting to make thinner, lower volume-chambered 2l heads. But I can't quote you how high is 2.5?
(As fast as a moust when it spins)
JOhn
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Thank you, Kevin!
John
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Thnaks, Kevin.
I fear that confirms how decrepit is my PC. I need a new one.
You didn't find the article I wanted , did you?
John
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Anyone actually tried to use the Technical Directory? I mean online, as a memeber might, not from TSSC Towers?
Becaue it doesn't work. OR its most important function, "Find" doesn't.
The Directory is so vast that 'browsi it in searcha specific article is like searching Shakespear for a quote when you don't know which play, let alone act or scene.
Right click to bring up the window of useful PDF commands, left click on "Find", enter the search word(s) and then "Next". Normally, away goes the programme and shows you each instance where that word or words appear. Very useful! But it just freezes in page 2, and nothing happens when it should tell you within seconds that those words don't appear, or shows you them if they do.
I'll admit that it might, just might, be my steam-powered, XP-running, ten year old PC that's letting me down,but it would be good to know that, so will someone else, please search for the Articles, a series of four, entitled "Suspensions Sussed"? If they can find them, tell me where please? I have the Courier DVD and given the reference can re-read those excellent articles.
Thanks,
John
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Robin,
You are persistently copying a previous post, and then replying to it!
A list of engine number prefixes was published by John KIpping as follows:
G or Y 948 Herald
GA 1147 1200 Herald
GD 1147 1200, 12/50 Herald
FC 147 Spitfire I,II
GE 1296 Herald 13/60
GK 1296 Herald 13/60 (late)
FD 1296 Spitfire III
FH 1296 Spitfire IV
FM 1492 Spitfire 1500
HB 1596 Vitesse 6
HC 1998 Vitesse 2L I,II
KC 1998 GT6 I, II
KE 1998 GT6 III
DG 1300 Toledo
DH 1300 Dolomite
RD/RF 1300 FWD
WB 1500 FWD
YC 1500 RWD/Dolly
FP 1500 MG Midget
MB 2000 MkI
ME/ML 2000 MkII
CR/CP/MG/MM/MN 2500
That's the sort of info that should be in the FAQs!
JOhn
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Thanks, Kevin! Good old Microsoft, eh?
D'ye know the one about the helicopter pilot, lost over cloud at Seattle?
He found a tower block poking up, and held a notice to the windows - "Where am I?"
The reply told him at once that he was next to the Microsoft tower, "You're in a helicopter"
John
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We always used to take the kids (in a modern) via Portsmouth, to either St.Malo or Caen.
St.Malo is a wonderful, almost fairy town on its headland, with medieval streets, full today of tatt, but the ramparts offer great views.
Caen, of course is on the D-Day landing coast, with Pegasus Bridge just up the canal. Essential visit for today's unknowing children, like the Northern France graveyards.
So worth getting there early on your return trip!
Both overnight sailings get you into France about 0700, but don't get confused by the time zone change in Channel crossing. I once had an altercation with a steward, who knocked on our cabin door at 0500, I thought, to tell us we were coming into port, when I had set my watch the wrong way!
JOhn
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Pete,
You should read my posts again. I am worried for the TSSC becasue of the attitude elsewhere, and I raise other sirtes to show how the TSSC could improve. Anyway, how else am I to raise my concerns for the Club? A letter in the Courier?
Mike,
Thank you again, and for springing to my defence! I will await improvement, not with bated breath as I do need to breath now and again. It would be good to have a time table, rather than distant prospect of change.
Admin/Simon
"free of charge"? "FREE OF CHARGE"?????? What do I pay my membership fee for? I know you are not paid, but the message board is part of the service to mebers that the Cklub provides, from that income.
But once again, I fear that if the Club and CoM think that how it looks is unimportant, they entirely miss the point of the message board. How do you think new members are born? They think of buying a Triumph, look on the 'Net for advice at Triumph messageboards - and imediately get confused by the similarity between TSSC and TRR. Gosh! they might make the mistake of buying a TR! [Joke]
The website and more than anything else on it, the message board, is the Club's, any club's, shop window. It displays what the club deals with, how and who the people are who deal with it. Why do you think that our high streets are so similar nowadays? Because they are full of chain stores, from WHSmith to Kentucky Fried Chicken, which promote their brand image by looking the same from John o' Groats to Lands End. Every car manufacturer promotes a brand image, such as BMW with its prominent 'propellor' badge and double nostril radiator grille, a Roller radiator, Citroen's edge-engineering (until recently, anyway).
For a car club, competing with other clubs for membership, to look the same as another club is just silly. especially when it is easy to change.
John
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Work in progress, as you say, ptr (peter?).
Please see the "Colour Scheme" thread, and register your opinion?
http://forum.tssc.org.uk/index.php?/topic/71-message-board-colour-scheme/
JOhn
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And if you have the right version of Windows (I'm still on XP), the "My Pictures" folder has a built-in compressor.
I suspect that this facility may sometimes not be loaded, but should be on your Windows disc, if you have one.
Don't know if it would still be available from Microsoft, or if it exists in Windosw 7 or 8.
But simples! Select a picture (or pictures, it'll do dozens at once) and then click on:
File/Resize Pictures/Small (fits 640x480 screen)/OK
Voila! The compressed pic will appear in the same folder with the same name, plus "(Small)".
What could be simpler?
No need to
JOhn
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Thanks, Mike, especially for your forgiving attitude to my diatribes!
I worry for the TSSC - have you noticed opinions eslewhere? The Club does not get a 'good press'; it's seen as a set of losers.
Copycatting TRR won't help that.
Admin cites "identity confusion" if the colour scheme is changed. Once again, self-satisfaction rules! I'm already confused, and so is Bruce, and in all fairness, the TRR was first! But OK, leave the colour scheme. The website offers layout options as well, and the colours could stay the same, it just looks different. As an example, has the Club not noticed that Sidways also uses this software? Their layout is distinctive and demonstrates those "Infinite posisibilites" that the software supplier boasts about!
Please, TSSC, wake up! It was said before, but this message board is the shop window that the rest of the world uses to know about aand to gat an opinion on, the Club. The Club must use it to promote itself, or die.
John
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"The colour is immaterial"
Gosh, Mike, if you are right, then the whole of the design and advertising industry is wrong. Newspapers might as well all use the same layout and format, car makers all make the same model, and the fashion industry can close up shop.
I fear that you express the blind and self-satisfied attitude that threatens the TSSC with oblivion.
The Club website is distinctive, good! But the messageboard is a copy, an exact copy, of another Triumph board.
What organisation that values its individuality would want to appear the same as another, as a competitor!
If the Club doesn't care about the message board, then the TSSC management still has the previously shown antagonism towards a club message board, thinks that this essential communication means with its members is trivial, and does not want to be bothered by the opinions of its members that post there.
But this member of over thirty years does care, very much. For the last two years there has been no TSSC board post to, but my life in Triumph has continued uninterruptedly, because there are at least four other boards, here and in the US, that are busy and thriving. I only came back to contribute to the new board because it was the TSSC's but if your views, Mike, represent those of the new management, I am wasting my time. TSSC has a much to offer its members, but unless it starts to actually listen to them, those members will give up on the Club.
John
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The TSSC chose to use the same message board software as the TR Register. No bad thing, as the TRR has used theirs for years and it has been most reliable, but why did the TSSC also choose to use the exact same colour scheme and board layout as the TRR?
Others may not have noticed, but one such as I, who spreads themselves, Titan-like, across the Triumph world, will find this most confusing! Did I post on that subject here or on TRR? Where is that thread I want to find again? When both sites look identical, it becomes more difficult to recall.
And there is no need for the copy-cat appearance. The board system is the Community Forum Software, by InvisionPower and it has its own website from which I quote:
"Fully customizable appearance, including per-forum themingThe IPS Community Suite includes incredibly powerful customization tools, allowing you to brand your community with almost limitless freedom. Match your existing website or develop an exciting new style.
IP.Board takes the customization further by allowing you to apply unique themes to individual forums within your community - useful if you have multiple brands that you're bringing together under one roof, or distinct subject areas that would be better served with their own styling."
See: http://www.invisionpower.com/apps/board/
Please, TSSC! Revise the colour scheme and layout to another from the "limitless freedom" you have been given, and make the TSSC's message board as distinctive as the Club it represents to the World!
JOhn
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Thanks John. I know that it is the bore size that matters but is the brake cylinder bore size the same as the clutch bore size? The manual does not state the sizes. Maybe somebody just fitted what they could get hold of at the time. On the earlier 1600 Vitesse the pictures show both cylinders being of the same size and on the later Vitesse the brake cylinder is larger than the clutch. The brakes are OK but would like to fit correct cylinder. Car is fitted with remote servo.
I have no idea, frogeye. Once removed, it's an easy measurement with a vernier guage.
John
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Bore size, frogeye, bore size!
The reservoir size is irrelevant to the action of either system.
John
Will the TSSC's affiliation with the MSA be discussed with members?
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Did so before I posted, by copying my post above to Vivien Thompson, as Club Chair, and saying that I would be grateful for a response on the board.
John