Colin Lindsay

Don't go by those colour samples in places like B&Q, the stuff that comes out of the tin is nowhere near! I used to use a lot of Ronseal Wood Dye, Indian rosewood was a good match for what others called mahogany. Post a pic and we might be able to suggest a match?

Never wanted one myself even back in the day, but these days I AM one of the neighbours, and the little ***** in the local estate with the black car with the spoiler and the lowered purple car that drive about all day with their exhausts rattling the windows are going to find the road outside my house covered in caltrops some day. Some days I feel like I've bought a house in Donington Car Park. Similarly with those flaming whistling dump valves... Clive's right, the novelty soon wears off, but sadly the driver is often the last to realise it...

He's selling a lot of gearboxes, from the look of them they've been raised from the Titanic...

No, just trotting along.

I thought it looked more like a herd of deer, hence the arrangement

Anyway... after all that and re the OP and KevinR's post: I can no longer access the TR Register site as McAfee Antivirus claims it's using Keyloggers, Adware and Spyware. (That site was ok for tips on the TR7 but I could post a query today and get a reply in 2020, if any...)

If you turn the ignition on, and nothing happens, it's an ignition fault. Check your ignition switch / key to find out if power is getting that far; if it is, test to see why it's not going any further. It may be something simple such as a connection to the wrong terminal.

I bought a brand new Herald Estate rear spring many moons ago and it said 'front' on the top. This would have been an indication of directional fitting except that the lettering was stamped along one edge, so I've no idea if the lettering was to go to the front - in which case it read backwards when viewed from the rear of the car - or if it was fitted so that the lettering read correctly from the rear, in which case it was at the back. I fitted it with the word at the front, even if it was then upside down, and have no idea if it ever made any difference. I usually fit them so that the nuts on the brackets are at the back, to reduce corrosion. The NOS GT6 swing spring I bought didn't say anything at all, so again I fitted it with the bolt heads at the front. For component parts other than leaves (no idea if they do the nylon buttons, though) try this lot: https://www.gbsprings.co.uk/heritage-car-springs/

Of course they all have names, like that 'fiddly wee ******' and that 'annoying little **** that won't go back in place'. Like Rob I too thought that second from left, top row was two stuck together but it's so well done I think they may be a composite type of clip / bracket. Later this evening I'll remove the obvious ones and post better pics of the ones I just can't place.

THAT'S not a rant. Go away and work on it.

No idea! It's still at the same position, and still runs perfectly. I just marked the new position with white paint and now set the timing to that. I tried moving the distributor drive gear back or forward a tooth but that made it even worse, so I left it the way it is, and won't tempt fate again. John - have you replaced the distributor cap and rotor arm?

I nipped out to the garage to find a brake pipe clip for another post and ended up spending almost an hour sorting old trim, loom and brake pipe clips, all mixed together in one container. All of these are from Heralds and whilst I know many of them, some I do not recognise at all (second row, second from left as an example) and would welcome a jog to the fading memory. Want to try your skills at clip identification?

That one pictured was indeed for the TR7, but my last Herald brake pipe kit - too lazy to make one up myself, as it wasn't for my own car - had the same clips supplied, only this time in green plastic. I use the metal ones on my own Heralds and the pipes do fit! Just don't get confused, as I've done in the past, and stick the wrong corner into the chassis, then wonder why the pipes won't fit at all...

Maybe they shouldn't call it a 'post' as then we know it will be delayed, if it ever arrives at all... I'm not on medication, just high on life....

That wasn't a rant, it was an illustration to trivialise the momentous and simplify the obvious. Otherwise known as 'fun'.... I could have started it with 'Once upon a time" but I'll leave that to Theresa May. You can read the official EU version but it's 1178 pages long, and says pretty much the same thing...

Is it tight to the rubber door seal? If not then you can shim the mountings inside the door to tighten the angle until it's flush. When winding up, the glass will follow the runners up until it hits something; but if it's tight to either the rear of the door at the B post, or the top of the front channel by the quarterlight before it's fully closed up then you'll need to adjust. If you remove the door trim and loosen off the two sets of runner bolts by slackening the bolt heads on the inside door frame until they're free to move, then by winding the glass up until it's tight you can settle the runners into a better position, then tighten again. You need to ensure that the door is correct to the body, and the A-frame is correct to the windscreen pillars and with these bolted tight adjust the rear runner as shown in the photo. If the glass is stopping short of the top but not hitting anything visible, the buffer stops inside the door that stop the rollers in the runner channels can be moved outwards to allow further winding. You'll see the small bolts for these once the door trim is removed, but be careful not to wind the runners right out of the channels. Have a look at the Service Training Manual notes on this site: https://app.box.com/s/t9jjtxvxoskfrlupjmyg4bk4x1k04d3k which will give some idea of fitting and adjusting, as in the photo.

At present we've barely got a centralised government to run centralised government operated MOT testing stations. Re Johnny's post: Imagine three neighbouring houses. Two have Triumphs, the third wants one but can't afford it. So the other two buy one for him, and maintain it for him. Now the first house decides they need a garage for these three cars, so they build a super-duper garage on their grounds using funds proportionately gathered from all three houses which the other two can use... provided the first isn't using it, which they nearly always are, or if they'll give permission, which they rarely do. The third house now has a car and free maintenance; the first has an amazing garage and his cars are always in top-class order, and the middle house wonders why he is paying for someone else's Triumph, and someone else's garage, and can't afford to run his own car any more as he's paying for the other two. EU in a nutshell. Now: The middle house doesn't want to pay for everyone any more, as their own Triumph is sitting in the garage due to no money to pay for repairs, so they ask to leave. House three asides with house one, as they know what way their bread is buttered and won't vote against the gift-giver. House one says: no way, we need your money to fund our amazing garage and the Triumph of poor house three who will be so deprived without it. The middle house has a referendum, whereupon the majority of the people vote to leave, to fund their own Triumph. A lot of other people vote to remain in the hope that house one will buy them a Triumph too, or else they can go to visit house three and use their Triumph for a week or so each year - which they believe is fair. The middle house says: but we've already got our own Triumph - and the Remainers ask: well where is it? We never see it on the road, we don't believe you have one, so we'd rather pay to use someone else's as they at least seem to be able to run theirs properly. Brexit in a nutshell.

Have you checked the timing, particularly the advance? I was able to overcome poor running on one of my cars years ago by pulling the choke out when it started to mess about on the road, but it was only masking the problem and nothing at all to do with the fuel. I had the timing set spot on by the timing marks, but eventually found that they were way off and the car ran superbly at an indicated 23 degrees, not the stated 7 or even 13. It used to idle very well but on the road it used to run out of revs at higher speeds because the timing advanced so far off the marks that it was miles away from any kind of sparking position.

http://vitessesteve.co.uk A lot of good helpful manuals available here for free, so have a browse - it can save you a lot of money instead of buying books you only use rarely.

True, and by that logic, if you use silicon, and don't check it for years, and the brakes fail, you can hardly blame the fluid... I was looking for a bathroom mirror recently and bought one off Amazon, which had 22 'excellent' reviews and one 'very poor'. The one very poor review was from an owner who fitted his beside a window, and the hot sun reflected off the concave surface and melted his window frame... hardly fair to blame the mirror for user error... same as brake fluid!

12 incher? Isn't that a record? You mean a barge pole? A barge poll is where they ask sailors if they prefer one sort of barge, or another...

That's not what I remember it being called..... However: here we have the real genuine Gentleman's Stiffener, and to please the snifters amongst us I've found it in whiskey flavour too. A guy I used to work with used it daily, at the very least...

I was advised to bring protection, but no-one bothered me at all, however I was with the wife. It seems to be a great place for monogamy, though. First female I saw in a window was a HUGE woman, like the Bibendum man, dressed entirely in red, and it reminded me of the Virgin balloon. Second one was a skinny little thing in a doorway wearing only her underwear, and I advised her to get some clothes on quick as she'd catch her death. I decided that if that was the standard of things, I'd stick to the steakhouses.

Maybe you had protection? I must be much too innocent, as to me, adult is either clothing sizes or fiction (as opposed to children's or young adults...) BTW loved Amsterdam, the hotel was cr*p but the Argentinian Rancho steaks were fabulous.

There are some good wiring diagrams on-line, just search literally for the one you want and you'll find full colour versions ready for download. It's been a long time since I had a GT6 but if it's a D-type, as they nearly all are originally, it takes power from a relay on the bulkhead; if a J-type modification it comes from the reversing light system. I've found this on-line for a 1971 Spitfire, and it shows where the ignition connections are; i'm hoping it's a d-type and therefore the same as yours but can some of the other posters confirm it's the same for the GT6 before you try it?