Gully
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I think I'd stick with GL4 spec to be on the safe side. Gully
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Sorry Aiden - can't recall the size of the hole. I simply measured the steering column outer diameter and used a closely sized hole saw on the rubber to make it a light interference fit. The circular hole is cut into a rectangular piece of material which follows the shape / size of the cover and retaining plate. Only real tip I have is to measure where the hole is in relation to the cover plate - mine was slightly offset from the central position. The old 'measure twice, cut once' syndrome! It made a huge difference to the under bonnet heated air entering the cabin - really satisfying 20 min job ? Gully
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I made mine from a small corrugated rubber sheet I found in my Dad's garage - the cover plate removes easily from inside the footwell (2 screws if my memory is right) and the new seal simply drops in. Obviously a cut is needed to fit around the column - I had no intention of removing that again! Gully
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Yes - new spark plugs fixed the heater. That's not in the manuals! ? My GT6 shorts have been surplus to requirements for most of this year! A new tunnel seal kit and full set of fixings, along with some grommets in the bulkhead penetrations and new seal around the steering column and the shorts were redundant... And despite the newly invigorated heater, I still don't need them! Available free to a new home - 32 inch waist! Is it 2018 yet? Gully
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I can relate to that. Although I think I've gone the other way now - I buy all the bits I think I might need and have a rack of padded envelopes from Canleys, Moss, Paddocks etc with odd unused leftovers that may come in useful 'one day', by which time I'll have forgotten I have them! Pete - I did wonder about recycling part of a latex glove whilst waiting for the parts from Rimmers. I wouldn't want to give Gill another excuse to stop washing up! ? Gully
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I'm sure we've all been there - repaired or replaced the broken / faulty bit on our Triumphs only to find it doesn't cure the problem we were seeking to solve. Well, the heater on my GT6 packed up earlier this year - clearly there was no flow through the matrix and it needed a flush (diagnosis based on the water in both the flow and return pipes warming close to the engine, but no evidence of flow). Rather irritating, as having properly sealed the tunnel and stopped up the holes in the bulkhead, the car has actually been cold inside over the recent weeks! Anyway, I bought the car a new set of spark plugs for Christmas as it's been running a little bit rough and fitted them this afternoon. Slight rough running is still there, but the heater's now working again! ? On the rough running, I did find the car pulling in air through the small vent hole on top of the crankcase pressure control valve due to a holed diaphragm - new one on order, so fingers crossed that doesn't stop the heater working again... HNY, Gully
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the start of a extreme late MK4 Spitfire restoration
Gully replied to Dam's topic in My Triumph Restoration Project
Welcome to the forum. Looks a brave course ahead of you! One point - if it's a Mk IV then it will have originated between 70 and 74. After that it's a 1500, so if it is a 1978 car then it's a 1500. Good luck, Gully -
Welcome back! Any chance of a photo diary of your Spit 3? Friend of mine has been working on his for around 10 years now and has missed every deadline he's set himself, so would be good to shame him into activity! Gully
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Yep - called a snowcheck too. Pantomime tomorrow, so another day potentially lost unless I Spring out of bed in the morning - which is unlikely! At least I managed to get on the cycle trainer this morning... Gully
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That's exactly the point Pete made - we continued to make 6ft and 8ft fences after metrication and simply expressed them in metric sizes. However, as someone brought up with the metric system, I can visualise what 2.4m looks like, but if someone said 8ft I'd need to ponder and convert to metric. And I get completely lost with oz in a lb and all those eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds and sixty fourths. Thousandths of an inch make sense, although without a set of feeler gauges I'd have no idea how much ten thou was! I guess your affinity is always to the system you find intuitive. Gully
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I'm 47 and completely bewildered by the imperial system - aside from people's heights and weights. My entire schooling was using the metric system and professionally (I'm a chartered QS) we are preculded from using it - if dealing with an American client we can commission a separate imperial bill of quantities for them, but only alongside the main metric bill. Thank goodness for the bag of sugar - my only reference point for weights! Gully
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I went along 3 or 4 years ago and haven't bothered since. Trouble is, so many of the parts for our cars are available new / re-manufactured that spending out for a ticket in the vain hope of discovering unobtanium seems foolish - the seller is most likely to have put anything properly rare on eBay and waited for the market to dictate a price. I was most disappointed by the auto jumble, which seemed to be mainly comprised of parts removed from another vehicle as knackered and now being sold on as rare! At best, it was a day out and I bought a few bits to justify the entry price. As for Richard's comment about better sellers being found at the marque gatherings, I must admit to having been disappointed by the auto jumble at my only visit to a TriumFest at Santa Pod where it was 'thin'. Maybe I should have been there on the first day, or it is simply a dying trade, in the way of record fairs of 20 years ago? Gully
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Was that an Echo lard joke for Christmas morning?! Gully
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Is there an echo on here?! Gully
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Lucky you - I have to wait until the 27th! Gully
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Nice green GT6 there - will make it up from Hitchin one day, but mired by family at the moment... Merry Thingy, Gully
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I'm not doubting that someone's gone to a lot of effort to produce the table you've linked - I simply wanted to highlight that the GT6 information isn't borne out by either of the manuals I own. Neither suggests the Mk3 has a different torque. Gully
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Just in case someone happens across this thread when searching for info... The GT6 Haynes Manual and GT6/Vitesse Triumph Workshop Manual both state 24-26ft lb for the pedestal nuts irrespective of model of GT6 - think I'd follow those rather than a table off t'internet. Gully
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Welcome aboard the good ship Forum! Gully
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Welcome, and good luck with your search. If you go to the main TSSC website and click on The Cars - select Herald and scroll down to the bottom to find the PDFs Buyers' Guide document. Gully
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Welcome! I bought my GT6 through the club classifieds. Gully
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I suspect not to use one on the road - when our old village doctor lost his licence for drink driving he got a pony and trap for house calls! Gully
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Hello to all Triumph Owners.
Gully replied to classic mike's topic in I thought I'd introduce myself
Welcome aboard! Some lovely looking cars there. Gully -
I remember seeing lots of cars like that in 1970s winters - my Godfather even had a bespoke grill cover for his Austin 1100 which he could vary the blanking / open proportions via a series of flaps. Clearly it was an approach that worked - same principle can be seen on the trucks on the Dalton Highway (Ice Road Truckers). Gully
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Meant to mention too - what rating thermostat did you buy and did you check it against the one you removed by gradually heating both in a pan of water to see when they opened (and how far)? Not sure what the Spitfire ratings are, but you can get 74, 82 and 88 Celsius ones for the GT6, with the 82 being the 'normal' one for the UK. Gully
