- 161. Re: Carb Question (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:36:18 EDT
- Many years ago I ran a 465 Holley on my Tiger and the performance was reduced significantly from the 600cfm it replaced. I installed just prior to a trip from Seattle to Los Angles (and back) via Ti
- /html/tigers/2000-06/msg00131.html (7,320 bytes)
- 162. Re: veneer (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 20:50:05 EDT
- Consider using a good grade (marine) plywood as the base: our cars experience very cold, and very hot temperatures and a full range of humidity. My soggy-Seattle based philosophy is as follows: a wo
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00024.html (7,092 bytes)
- 163. Re: Subject: steering cross tube (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:12:22 EDT
- Here is another caster question: The aluminum caster wedges used on ball-joint suspensions on Alpines/Tigers and Minx's are identical. With the exception of engine mounting towers, everything else is
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00077.html (6,642 bytes)
- 164. Re: [RE: alternator] (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 23:54:05 EDT
- << Then again, do sub guys even talk to surface guys (besides with torpedos How about active sonar...("Yankee Search") That gets the message across right now!!! Jim Leach PTC Seattle
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00149.html (6,544 bytes)
- 165. Re: Gauges Rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 21:22:04 EDT
- I went to Radio Shack and purchased appropriate sized "rubberbands" that are actually drive belts for tape recorders and turntables. They are black, and come in dozens of lengths and different secti
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00203.html (6,435 bytes)
- 166. Lost in the 50s car show !!! (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 21:44:47 EDT
- This weekend my buddy, Jeff, from Old Town Idaho came "back home" to Seattle and he showed me pictures of the "Lost in the 50s" car show that your Tiger was in. See? ...I have agents everywhere! The
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00204.html (6,910 bytes)
- 167. Re: Pads for Sunbeams (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 30 May 2000 20:58:43 EDT
- If you put a full metallic pad on a Subaru, they might last the lifetime of the car! Subaru's are renouned for their soft rotors. I ran full metallics on my Tiger, Vintage racing it for six seasons,
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00236.html (7,191 bytes)
- 168. Re: Hand carry to Australia (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 12:26:57 EDT
- Atta boy, Dick!! I vote for the third option...
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00299.html (6,490 bytes)
- 169. Re: charging (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 00:49:28 EDT
- There are only two circuits in your Tiger: assuming it is correctly wired, dismiss everything that is switched OFF by the ignition switch, such as the fuel pump and brake lights. Jim
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00307.html (6,596 bytes)
- 170. Re: F4B question / temp sensors (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 19:46:06 EDT
- Because of their known inaccuracies, I chose to discard the electrical temperature gauge and use a bourdon tube direct reading gauge. I used a stock Mk1 Austin Healey Sprite screw-in adapter, and ev
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00347.html (6,609 bytes)
- 171. Fwd: highway - Head Pull (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:12:42 EDT
- << As part of their instructions they tell you to remove the rocker arms and push rods, except the last two, which should be TIED to the rocker post >> ...Actually, a rubber band holds them in place
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00375.html (10,425 bytes)
- 172. Re: water wetter (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:28:03 EDT
- We had a story printed in the PTC newsletter a few years back about that, and everyone interviewed said it helped quite a bit. I haven't tried it, but a friend that works for Kenworth trucks says th
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00377.html (6,794 bytes)
- 173. Re: carb update (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 00:34:20 EDT
- Perhaps I have a "connection", but I buy the replacement ball bearings for my Tiger steering column rebuild service in lots of 1000, and I'm on my fifth box! Jim Leach PTC Seattle
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00378.html (6,318 bytes)
- 174. Re: F4B question / temp sensors (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 09:26:07 EDT
- Memory lapse (duh): I just checked my Tiger, and I was wrong about my temp-sender setup. I still have the original electric sender in the manifold, but I installed a Ford truck aluminum thermostat h
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00396.html (7,149 bytes)
- 175. Re: Puke Bottle and Air Dams (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 17:53:40 EDT
- I put my water catch bottle in front of the right front tire as well. All worked well until about the 10th lap in a vintage race. My car decided to brake unevenly and pull to the left. You alredy kno
- /html/tigers/2000-05/msg00411.html (7,293 bytes)
- 176. Re: Tiger parts from MGBs (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 21:39:56 EDT
- Every MGB I have worked on used Lockheed brakes: Lockheed "Brake Survival Kits" fit the '66-'67 Sunbeam Minx, and do not fit the Series Alpine with Girling calipers. The Minx/MGB (Lockheed) version
- /html/tigers/2000-04/msg00007.html (7,636 bytes)
- 177. Re: playboy tiger (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:41:42 EDT
- According to the Book of Norman, it is car # 9470457. Jo Collins was from Albany, Oregon, and in PTC there is a member (Ed Wright) that went to High School with her. He tells stories of her visiting
- /html/tigers/2000-04/msg00088.html (7,316 bytes)
- 178. Re: Mk II grill on ebay (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:20:27 EDT
- Mark Unrau in Vancouver, BC still has half a dozen repro Mk 2 grills left from a remanufacturing run about 20 years ago... He offered them for sale at early Sunbeam Northwest and Tigers United conven
- /html/tigers/2000-04/msg00095.html (7,044 bytes)
- 179. Re: Playboy Tiger (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 20:57:52 EDT
- << Remember, the Tiger can go through a restoration, Ms. Collins cannot. >> Regarding all of her plastic surgeries, Phylis Diller once said to Johnny Carson: "If I live long enough, I'll be drop dead
- /html/tigers/2000-04/msg00105.html (7,237 bytes)
- 180. Re: Playboy Tiger (score: 1)
- Author: TIGEROOTES@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 09:10:53 EDT
- Headlights??? You must mean Dagmars. Jim
- /html/tigers/2000-04/msg00149.html (6,943 bytes)
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