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OT: was Re: Re: replacing 475 psu electrolytics
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Jim
Don't feel bad -- I had three Spitfires, a GT6, three Alfas, and mechanicking privileges on a Saab 98. Now I only do water-cooled Porsches, and stuff with Ford 460s. ?Anybody got a straight Spitfire 1500 body and frame to sell? ?No drivetrain needed, I have a spare 460 to put in it. ?I can trade vintage test gear :) Seems like an awful lot of folks who play with vintage test and radio gear also play with specialty-interest vintage motorcars. ?I don't think it's a coincidence. 73 Jim N6OTQ
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Don Black
¿ªÔÆÌåÓýI'm guessing your spitfires didn't have wings????Don Black. On 21-Feb-13 10:24 AM, Jim wrote: ? |
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Jim
LOL!! Nope. ?But the '70 Spit didn't have a title either ... The reason I got it for $150 was that it also didn't have a screw holding the points down inside the distributor. ?Took me 10 minutes to diagnose and have it minimally driveable. ?It willingly donated its tired motor in exchange for the more-tired motor in my '69, and the motor swap took an hour. ?I drove the '70 onto the driveway, yanked the motor/trans, pushed it away, drove the '69 onto the driveway, yanked the
motor/trans and put the good '69 clutch and trans on the '70 block. Then the next week I drove the '69 from Austin to Garland TX where I rebuilt the '69 block on my apartment balcony. In the interim, I shattered a piston on the '70 block, but when the rebuild was done, I swapped the
busted '70 for the rebuilt '69 one Sunday morning in about an hour. ?The church lady from upstairs came out and said "I KNEW it was you!!" (electric impact wrench), and then my wife went to church too, but before either of them got back, the car was running with the rebuilt motor installed, and I was just doing little detailing tasks before I went inside for lunch. The '69 got sold into the Netherlands a few years later. ?Don't ask what I did with the '70. If I ever do something like that again, I'll go with massively more performance mods inside the engine. ?It only made about 100 HP and only did 105MPH. 73 Jim N6OTQ
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Austin 10 1936, 3 landrovers (serie 2a from 1970, defender 90 V8 50th annyversary from 1998, a 90 Td5 from 1999) a Triumph speedtwin (1954) and a EML bermuda trike ( based on a 1998 Honda GL1500 anniversary model)? Had to sell my 1976 Landrover 101FC a few months because of health problems, the others probably have to go one day too :-( i used to work on some cars ( most landrovers) and a lot of motorbikes since i was 17,( I'm now 49) i have had over 30 motorobikes over those years. Fred PA4TIM Op 21 feb. 2013 om 00:35 heeft Don Black <donald_black@...> het volgende geschreven:
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