Chris A
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I forgot to add that when I got my 13/60 it was fitted with 155/70 which were a bit old so I changed them for 155/80 and did notice that the speedo then read more accurately than previously.
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As long as there are no police about, isn't having hazard lights on while the vehicle is moving an offence? Instead of putting the hazard lights on they could just stamp on the brakes, you then also get a confirmation your brakes work as well as the speedo, No on second thoughts . .
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I checked my recently repaired kilometre version against an old GPS unit I keep in the Triumph, I easily get lost, and found it very accurate, as long as the GPS was of course.
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This thread is getting interesting. As I said my 13/60 has the hose to filter system, therefore according to the owners handbook I should be using a gauze filter not the paper one I do use. The photos are from this handbook. As you will see the engine bay overview one shows the direct system and further along both systems are explained, so I too wonder if the valve version was on export versions, USA maybe? OR, Triumph just made it up as they went along and fitted whatever was available each day. 🤔
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I see, so just a cunning plan to drift the subject to what oil to use in dash pots . . .
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I'm sure Colin will reply but I can't see any reference made by Colin to oil filler cap, although in his photo there is the section on the oil filler cap before the subject of his post. As for the crank case breather my 13/60, 1968 model, has the hose direct to air filter.
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There you are then, air in tyres, fresh fuel, check oil and water levels and off you go . . . .
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Back in the 'old country' but here a measure is usually 4cl or 5cl, According to an online converter 4cl = 0,281560637822832 Uk gill
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Understatement
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I assume you put it in the dishwasher afterwards to clean it 😁 I have a cut off top from a plastic 1.5 litre 'eau de source' bottle*. *It's the wife that drinks the stuff, I don't even add it to my whisk(e)y
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The part number you quote shows an 8 blade fan, available drom Datch in France. https://www.datch.fr/fr/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=311868&filtre_categories_id=&categories_id=&x=15&y=6
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How about Leslie Philips in 'The Navy Lark' - Left hand down a bit. Works for me
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You should hear the arguments my wife has with it! Do you thing the Nav Sat voice can be sited in divorce proceedings? Our Nav Sat voice is quite nice and unlike the previous car doesn't say 'recalculating' in a disapproving tone when I don't do what she wants, she just puts up a revised route. Ours is set in French, we did try English but couldn't understand the accent. Even tried Spanish, once, spoke far to fast!
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The one on my 13/60, just before the pump, never has much petrol in regardless of how much is in the tank -
Navigation? I just set the sat nav and set off, get confused about the route it wants to take me compared to the route i thought i would take. Get lost, wander about a bit and eventually get back on target. That if fine when out in the Triumph for fun. I've had a series of dental visits over the last month or so, last one tomorrow. The journey from home is a rural one and very quiet, so far I've managed to avoid doing the same outward & return route more than once. Not necessarily on purpose. I'm ok when along the coast, just keep the sea on the same side and I'm fine.
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One day your dreams will come true
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That phrase I do know. The first thing I recognise since this thread got onto naughty nautical matters
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That is a Triumph design feature to protect the chassis from rust 😉,
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All this technical stuff just goes to prove time is an illusion and it is always appero time, somewhere. Cheers 🍹
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When I left the UK, 30 years ago, the sale of timber had sort of gone metric. Length was in mm, in multiples of 300mm but cross sections were still Imperial. From your comment it looks as if it hasn't changed.
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Not just engineers, if I buy a length wood it will, say, be marked 2500x25x37.
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We don't drink pints of beer here, a demi, which in fact is 1/4 litre or a galopin, a demi 'demi'. Better still if one is having a festive meal part way through the is the 'trou Normand'. Traditionally a shot of Calvados to clear the palet
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Tyres: diameter in inches of course to match wheel diameter but width in mm. Just to show it works both ways, it is quite common to see fruit on a market stall priced as, for example, 4.99€ per livre. Yes per pound. I'm going to relax with a measure of Scotch from a metric bottle 🥃
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Standing still is the worst for me, a walk helps free things up. I've had 1 disc removed (L4/L5) the adjacent is damaged plus at the time of all the x rays etc I was asked more than once 'do you have an extra vertibra'. Eventually they found the S1 & S2 aren't fused together as in normal people but 2 seperate ones, of course no disc between them either. . . I'll know when Im dead, my back won't ache! 😁 Right, back to car related stuff!
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Don't know who he is but from the way his name gets mentioned it would seem several gros mots end up in the same sentace.
