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Eric Kammiller
Member ID: e.kamm
Member Status: Free Member Derby KS, USA 
Last Login: 2011-11-15 09:29:43
Last Forum Activity: 2011-11-15 09:30:01 Forum Posts: 39 |
2 Vehicles --
Total mileage: 186,459 mi (300,077 km) --
Average age: 1960
There are 4 total entries in this Journal.
Showing summary of the most recent Journal entries:
Posted on: Thursday August 13, 2009
Replaced the points and gaped them. Turn her over and no spark. What the heck, keep in mind that the original ones had melted and there wasn't really an example to go by. So I posted on a few sites and talked to a few people to find out what was up. I got and old guy down the street that knows a bit about cars to look at them( he had a triumph years ago). Anyway after looking a while we notice that the way that I had hooked them up that there was no contact on the non gaped end to the terminals ...
Posted on: Tuesday August 11, 2009
After cleaning a old stinky fuel and associated parts time to get some clean gas in her and try again. So I start cranking and nothing. Irritated, I've run down what now appears to be a bad battery. So hook up the charger and crank some more. Not even a pop, But do notice that there's smoke coming from the distributor. lift the cap and the points are melted and the two wires leading to them glowing like a heater element. Yikes! I turn the key off and try to figure out why. Talked to a number of ...
Posted on: Sunday August 9, 2009
After a few days I decide to start to do what was necessary to start her up. I knew that anything related to fuel was going to have to be drained and cleaned.So I siphoned the tank removed the sediment bowl and carb. bowls to clean them. The so called gas was thick and orange and smelled horribly.I thought that it was worth a try so I put some clean gas and tried to start her up. Of course the battery was dead so I had to hook up the charger and give it TRY. Turn the key on and push the starter...
Posted on: Friday August 7, 2009
My dad is now 77 years old and has had some health issues. He has had a TR3 since she was a few years old. I think that it was 1963 when he took it as a down payment for a small house that he was selling. I wasn't born until a year later. He drove it daily for 20 years or more. In the last year I had started hinting that I would like to start trying to get her back on the road. It's been sitting for four years. He had gotten it running at that time but had sat off and on over the last 10 years. ...
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