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  1. Colin Lindsay
    I'll be sitting in York, trying to work out where the border is so I can get home. I'll definitely need a drink by then...
  2. Colin Lindsay
    Don't panic, Martyn - just pray for good weather tomorrow as if it's raining I can't move the GT6 outside to get access to the roofspace ladder in the garage. I should have some of those - SHOULD, I've been wrong before - but I think they're in the roofspace storeroom and so can't check until tomorrow. I'll confirm asap one way or the other. As long as I have a set for my own restoration... In any case Chic Doig will have them.
  3. Colin Lindsay
    Depends on how desperate I was... and if there were enough of them!
  4. Colin Lindsay
    Most would understand the need for a pint... at least, I do!
  5. Colin Lindsay
    Let's start a campaign to bring them back. I still use feet and inches, pounds and stones, and have to think for a time before converting them into this newly fangled metric stuff, which is usually only when I have to.
  6. Colin Lindsay
    That's the smile you get behind that wheel! Makes it all worth while.
  7. Colin Lindsay
    Are these the gaps between the outer wing and the wheelarch, right down in the lower corner in front of each rear wheel?
  8. Colin Lindsay
    The usual hen's teeth jobbies, a breaker will be your best bit or keep an eye out on eBay or at your next autojumble. One of my first ports of call is always Chic Doig, he has a lot of good stuff salted away.
  9. Colin Lindsay
    Another excellent piece of info for me to salt away for future use!
  10. Colin Lindsay
    Can't you just pretend it's ABS?
  11. Colin Lindsay
    It will say 16PB on it - look around the bracket where the securing bolt goes through to the vertical link, it will be close to the bolt head.
  12. Colin Lindsay
    Somewhere in the back of my mind...... I remember them so well, but not as this photo shows in two parts - I remember them as all one unit. The other grey one is more familiar, including the little bar across the coin slot that you used to be able to press in with a knife and get free calls. Not that I ever did, of course.
  13. Colin Lindsay
    Time for another instalment! Not being a competetent welder, nor bodyworker, I set to work on the things I could do. The engine was stripped down and refurbished as far as possible - as it was running well and not using any oil I left the block more or less alone bar the timing chain, oil seals and other ancillaries including the pressure relief valve and spring. The pistons all looked very nice and were easy to clean. I'm intending to keep the crank-starter components on the engine so will also clean and repaint these later. I replaced the timing chain and tensioner plus the cover oil seal. The engine was quite easy to clean, unlike the head, which was oily, sooty and obviously running very rich. I replaced the valves, but probably should have replaced the guides too and will maybe do this later along the line. The head has just been set back on top of the engine to keep dust and dirt out while I'm working on other things, so it's not yet torqued down, or even repainted. The valves were quite impressive! I've no idea what way this engine had been maintained, and I drove it for almost a year before stripping it down, but the head needed a lot of work before I could even think of reusing it again. It's been cleaned, the valves replaced, and is due a repaint.
  14. Colin Lindsay
    Last update before I head off to the International at Stratford. The two lower trailing arms were a nightmare of mud and rust, and I had intended to shop for a good second-hand pair at the show; however it turned out they were more mud than rust and a good clean worked wonders, in fact a good clean followed by a good sandblast and then a good repaint turned them up as new. You can see the difference in the new bearing that I've fitted and the distorted one that hasn't been removed yet. I already had two rear bearings for these so will not be using polybushes on the rears; the fronts depend on availability and price. I'm relieved at the way these have turned out as even second hand a pair would set me back around £100. If my sandblaster had not clogged I would have had both finished, but something is blocking the nozzle so a complete stripdown is now required and as I can't be bothered getting covered in dust today, I'll leave it until after the show, by which time I should have all the required parts to finish the underside of the TR7. Then it will be the interior, and finally - get it running again.
  15. Colin Lindsay
    Refurbished, or new? I have some to have tidied up but they'll go to the in-laws Engineering Works and so I'll have someone to shout at if they make a bish. (Never tried baulk rings for braking, they wouldn't fit my hubs.... )
  16. Colin Lindsay
    Nice, free, fresh, oily u-joints. A joy to work on. Who's got the video of the rusted solid, pitted and jammed ones?
  17. Colin Lindsay
    Tesco and most of our Pound Stores still have it... 99p at most... the places where people go who can't afford a PC, or are too old for this new fangled technology.... When did phones stop taking 2p pieces?
  18. Colin Lindsay
    Your light should be good enough to shine onto the pulley from a range greater than that of the fan, but it needs to be close to the ends of the blades so that it actually hits the pulley with the beam. Too far away is no use; if it's too dim for that, any more modern version should do. As johny says, white paint on the pulley marks will help immensely, as will a dark garage.
  19. Colin Lindsay
    I've seen Series 3 Landy floors glued in place; they're just flat metal set onto an outer ledge anyway.
  20. Colin Lindsay
    I presume you never want to take it apart again?
  21. Colin Lindsay
    I never noticed that but yes it says SD on the listing, but not on the actual box; however it does say you have an input for karaoke microphone, so that will be a real boon for your passengers. I also noted that it makes a point of stating that it has 'production optimisation by single person assembly which is the most suitable option for export SKD'. In other words - cheapest. One poor worker labouring for peanuts.
  22. Colin Lindsay
    No, not that I've found so far. The only hassle is connecting the wires from the radio loom to those in your Triumph, but otherwise both of mine are fairly straightforward. Just keep the removal pins that come with it somewhere handy; I find these days that every head unit needs a differently shaped set.
  23. Colin Lindsay
    That method of enlargement never works, Pete.
  24. Colin Lindsay

    1500

    Colin Lindsay replied to Tanky's topic in My car's history

    ...and it should be white, with black trim...
  25. Colin Lindsay
    Or you could put the old oil along the top of the fence....
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