Gully
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Spitfire Graveyard have email / website issues - they've taken to social media to apologise to their customers. If you've not had an answer to an email, try phoning them.
Gully
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Shouldnt be a problem , Always best to remove the seats and if working from drivers side the steering wheel
box out takes less than an hour
pete
Takes me about and hour and a quarter to get the tunnel out!
Gully
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Hi Simon,
Yes, we were ahead of you guys and behind the Westfield chaps who kept slowing down for burn outs - otherwise we might have got a 2nd lap in!
Gully
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There's a few more images in my Gallery in the Silverstone album.
Gully
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Thanks to all involved in organising the Silverstone parade lap for the GT6 and Vitesse anniversary!
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I didn't find any basket weave replacements - I bought course grain vinyl from Park Lane Classics, with foams from there too.
However, Newton Commercial may be doing the basket weave now - read something to that effect in Triumph World.
Gully
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I recently replaced the original seat covers on my 70/71 Mk3 GT6 (KE83) - they were basket weave.
Gully
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The lower eyeball vents attach via L shaped brackets to the underside of the bars that form the front support of the passenger and driver glove boxes.
Apologies for not being able to post a picture!
Gully
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Thanks for the insight, Roger. All I need to do now is persuade my parents to look after our 6 year old for a week or so to allow my wife and I to head off in the GT6!
All the best,
Gully
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Hi Dave
The owner's handbook covers this process for the GT6 Mk 3 - says a few drops of engine oil to the centre of the cam (felt pad under the rotor arm), a single drop to the pivot, lightly grease the cam surface and pour one teaspoonful of engine oil through the hole in the plate. Repeat every six months or 6000 miles - whichever is sooner.
Gully
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My GT6 tank will blowback if I open the petrol pump to full bore. I just fill at a slower rate. I suspect it's a combination of the short filler hose, the tank baffles and faster flowing pumps than the 1970s!
Gully
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It looks to me as though the bar is sitting too high - there's no gap on mine worth speaking of from the bottom of the front face to the carpet. The clue may be the piece of bodywork visible in your photo above the 2 - this is completely masked off on my Mk 3.
Gully
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I think you should take on arranging classic car tours! The route looks to have been fabulous and the accommodation wonderful! How did you go about planning the trip?
Thanks for the blog - really enjoyable.
Gully
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That's some workshop!
Gully
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I know this thread hasn't been the most active in terms of participation, but I've been thoroughly enjoying it, so thanks Steve!
Looking forward to CA Britten up in Liverpool - original supplier of my GT6!
Gully
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Sorry - just realised there are two of these threads running! That said, I'm not able to assist I'm afraid.
Gully
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I have the same wheels / tyre size / car combination and run 28 psi all round - I found with the lower pressure on the front the steering was heavy and I could feel too much slop / lateral movement on the sidewalls. I'm running Avon fronts and Hankook rears. When the fronts wear out (or more likely get too old!), I'll go for Hankooks there too.
Gully
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Sorry - what are you asking?
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I see according to Rimmers the fuel tank references are different between early and late GT6s, but my parts catalogue indicates it's not an early / late issue, but Germany v the rest of Europe (US is different again). All done to confuse!
Anyway, after all this my early GT6 has the right tank and sender, yet still never reads below 1/4 full! Voltage stabiliser is fine too. Reads perfect accurately from full down to 1/4, then stays there. If you lift the sender out, it still reads 1/4! Must try a replacement one day, but I know when it gets to 1/4 I have 50 miles left...
Gully
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I think Kevin is looking at the breather pipe which connects to the sender unit in the parts diagram. My sender unit doesn't have this breather port - I suspect this is missing from 'modern' replacements.
Gully
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I have 2 Wanners too - one for grease ('borrowed' from my Dad who bought it in the 60s) and an identical one I picked up from an autojumble at Luton Transport Festival which is filled with gear oil. No leaks from either .
Gully
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My Mk 3 GT6 doesn't generally need topping up between annual oil changes and I do around 2500 miles per year in it.
But there is no 'norm' really. I had 2 Vectras on an S plate a few years ago. The first one, which I had from new, was run in carefully as per the instructions, always used around 500ml per 5000 miles, right up to the point when my now wife wrote it off! The replacement from the company car pool was one which looked as though it had been through a much harder life to get to the same mileage, but never needed a drop between the 10000 mile services.
Gully
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So, having procured a replacement speedometer via the great Bay of E and added it to the growing 'spares' pile in the shed, my existing speedometer has decided to go quiet on me again. Clearly, all it needed was two weeks of weather and holiday induced rest! That's the sort of repair I like!
Just leaves me with a rust bubble needing repair and an overdrive to fix...
Cheers,
Gully
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Thanks all! One for after Drive it Day :-)
Gully
Tappets and pinking
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Back to tappets - one of those jobs I've never been comfortable doing myself. Not sure why - probably a confidence thing, but even as an 18 year old student with little money it was a job I always paid someone to do...
Doug - if it's any consolation, my tappets need doing after 3 years too! Booked in for mid Sep (along with the MoT).
Gully