[Spitfire mkIV/1500 Hardtop rear seal Info required]

Standing back aghast at the affrontery of being constructive (😉 ) perhaps somebody on the Forum with time, experience of, and solutions to, this issue could volunteer to take the lead and pull together a grid of Baines numbers versus specific model usage.  Useful to the whole TSSC/Triumph community.

Dick

[Great car meet this morning]

3 hours ago, cliff.b said:

Jag engined kit car

I'm sure it is a Kougar.

Dick

[New Member with Vitesse Mk1 in Suffolk]

10 hours ago, Pete Lewis said:

but pipe

Steady on Pete, some of us still do that Condor moment in a GT6,  🎷 (closest I could find!) 😉

[Hello from a young engineer and a first time triumph owner!]

Will, 

Welcome.  If you look on the Club Homepage under 'Areas' there are the details for the thriving Devon mob.  Even if you cannot make a meeting the contacts should prove useful for local advice and assistance.  

Dick

[Coping with storms.]

2 hours ago, PeteH said:

Quite breezy outside, but they say no  more than 70(ish) F 11 to 12.

Reported 122kts off the Isle of Wight, provisionally a new (unwanted) record for the UK.

[Coping with storms.]

24 minutes ago, Pete Lewis said:

Dick to show me

Would love to help but not much better down here! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-60435309

Wagger mentioned the storm in 1987; was at sea South of the Isle of Wight and charged East to a Mayday off Eastbourne.  They cancelled it when we arrived so about turn and a gentle roll back overnight to Portsmouth to find one of the ship's boats had been torn out of it's davits.

[Another reason to remove the transmission tunnel - and how to avoid it]

This is how i did mine 

[Herald Parts]

Josef,

Bit cheeky but if you PM Pete and he goes ahead with the doors he may, if you ask nicely, get it closer to you!

Dick

[Herald Parts]

Pete, 

Will PM you his contact details and if he becomes stuck for space, although they are currently in a greenhouse, could always store them here, among the boat parts!

Dick

[Herald Parts]

I am not selling stuff but this may help those hunting for bits and pieces.  A former Naval chum who is into old lorries (!) has come across some Herald (1200 from the steering wheel) parts and rather them being 'disposed' of said I would spread the word.  I have not viewed the parts, located near Chichester, but if there is anything you spot I can put you in touch.  

Dick

ps Colin, I can always hang on to them if required to sort P&P!

 

[Drive Your Triumph Day 10 Feb]

8 hours ago, Pete Lewis said:

Ship !!!!  not refering to the driver 

Pete, I know some of my more troublesome sailors may have disagreed with you!

[Drive Your Triumph Day 10 Feb]

And then when you ask somebody to take a photo they miss half the car, but it was sailing gathering at Lower Swanwick so expected nothing else

[Drive Your Triumph Day 10 Feb]

Port Solent, but the yachts hidden by the hedge and too many double yellow lines to make for a decent background

 

[** 26/02/23 Heading Up ** Probably how not to restore a Herald!]

12 hours ago, Bordfunker said:

'No plan survives contact with the enemy.'.

Actually it was Von Moltke, 19th Century Prussian commander.  Clearly I spent too long on the staff of the Army Command and Staff college at Camberley!

[GT6 engine weight...]

Paul, 

I have one that I used for my GT6 engine, and Land Rovers various, that I was just about to put on Gumtree.  Sent you a PM.

Dick

[MAGNECOR Plug Leads]

14 hours ago, avivalasvegas said:

grumpy old timers who know their stuff.

Or they claim/you assume they do?

[New GT6 MK2 Purchase - The journey of improving it further!]

Support Pete and Colin's observations as I have a Triumphtune  one picked up cheap at Stoneleigh years ago, and had to chamfer the front edge for my GT6.  It is not just when you, carefully, first lower the bonnet but vibration when driving the car.

Dick

[Strange behaviour from GT6 differential that otherwise seems fine.]

9 hours ago, Jim-GT6 said:

Best route to a quiet diff?

Talk to Mike Papworth; details are in the back of The Courier.

[Flasher to Hazard mod.]

2 hours ago, PeteH said:

Do you pass the port to the right or left?

Busy doing this last night as a late stand-in Guest of Honour at the RNVRYC annual dinner.  President removes stopper, others follow suit then past to left who pours his first, President has to wait to the end.  Should always ask a lady to your left 'May I pour?'  If Madeira also available this follows the port around.  Woe betide the Midshipman who gets it wrong.

Dick

[SpitBitz?]

My experiences the same as Pete and Doug's.  Always helps being fairly local for a visit, bit of a trek from Yorkshire, but they understand Triumphs and what you are talking about on the phone.

Dick

[Air Filter Housing 1974 MkIV Spitfire 1300cc]

I would try a call to SpitBitz and the like; they tend not to list individual items when you 'search'  http://www.spitbitz.co.uk/html/used_parts.html

Dick

[That was a year that was..]

Pete, I used the next size up last year to put the boat in to do repairs and paint when COVID lockdown closed the harbours.  Worked fine and once the sun came out was surprisingly comfy to work in.  Once the job was done I sold it on (Gumtree) for about £50 less than I paid for it.   Dick 

[Now going to look at a vitesse based gentry]

There are two convertibles on the club classified pages.

[Exhaust GT6 mk3]

7 minutes ago, Gully said:

Not sure what the initials refer to though?

British Army of the Rhine; when we had one.

Dick

[Le Mans Bonnet Question]

There used to be a company called T6 Fabrications who made them but not sure if they are still up and running

Dick