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Paul GledstoneMembership Status: Member Member Since: 2008-08-26 Home Site: The Triumph Experience Location: Southampton, United Kingdom  Email: [Sign in to view] Website: [No website] Last Login: 2010-07-02 05:25:49 |
1 Vehicles -- Total mileage: 42,412 mi (68,255 km) -- Average age: 1972
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Posted on: Friday July 2, 2010
Took the plunge and started cleaning the engine etc. Not a full rebuild by any means but its suprising how a little bit of cleaning and renewing basics, can make things look better. Obviously new gaskets but also repainting , and just cleaning works wonders. Slightly worried abount the replacement head I purchased ages ago.Quite a lot was skimmed off the head and I am running with dommed top pistons, therefore the compression may be too high. We shall see! Spare parts are not particularly expens...
Posted on: Wednesday February 17, 2010
Still making steady progress. Obtained some seats from an MX5. Wrong colour , so I have changed them from brown to black. Leather of course and also more comfortable and safer than the old GT6 items. Sold the old ones on e bay and the money I got, more than paid for the second hand leather items , the petrol to collect them and also the leather kit and spray gun. Still have change from the £150.00 I sold them for. Black certainly looks better and ties in with the black leather interior. Basic p...
Posted on: Friday September 12, 2008
The bodywork was in good condition , no major rust. Decided to have it painted professionaly and to its origianl colour as near as possible. A few holes in the wings where a mirror had been fitted and the usual splitting for the seat anchorage points needed welding. completly stripped the shell and remounted on the powder coated chassis. A guy called Bernie Hoare did the honours and I am very pleased with the result. He took the body off the chassis again and the costs were very reasonable. The ...
Posted on: Sunday September 7, 2008
One thing that I always seem to have a problem with when I have these cars or the Spitfire , is the bad connection for the light bulbs. No matter how meticuously I cleaned the lamp holders , there was always a bad connection and failure of the lights to work consistently. It took me a while to find an alternative. I was looking for a sealed unit that included fog and reversing lamps. I also wanted something that echoed the curves of the body and not square or completley circular. I found at las...
Posted on: Saturday September 6, 2008
Fist of all remove the body from the chassis. No rust or twisting damage and then arranged sandblasting and powdercoat the chassis. Stuck with black, this seemed to be the original colour.
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