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Awesome Tom !!!!

Thanks ever so much. We have heard rumors of AAA arriving
to Puerto Rico for some time now. Much anticipated, I can
assure you.

Wendy and I both now signed up for Plus plan, temp.
IDs printed out and in out wallets. $140 per year
is certainly a reasonable fee.

Thanks again, pal. Now my cell phone can actually help
me out when I break down. That AAA card will make driving
Amos ever so much more pleasurable.

Heavy rain all afternoon, Wendy ill with the flu, so I
skipped the BBQ. Gonna take Amos out now between
showers. A grape run for the Mrs.

WOW!!! I have AAA in my wallet.

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Dale; you have an alcoholic in your wallet?

Oh wait, that means American Automobile Association--
Not Alcoholics Anonymous Association

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Dave
 
Dale, by the time I got to this thread your journey was already completed, as it's 6:40 pm here on Oahu.

points and condensor systems were designed to last a minimum of 12000 miles. If the points were cleaned and lube applied to the cam, there is no reason why you should not be able to go at least 6K miles without even having to worry about dwell closing.

Make sure your connections are clean and tight, your cap and rotor are on straight, a drop of oil is on the felt insert in the distributor shaft and DRIVE IT!.
 
Dale, quick question on the clutch. Has the clutch gotten stiffer as you have been driving it or is it just stiffer than the Grey Ghosts clutch. TR6 clutchs are quite a bit heavier than modern vehicles. If its just heavy then its fine. If it gets worse as you drive it then something else is up.
 
TR3driver said:
Tinster said:
The clutch will blow up when I am exactly 50+ miles from home on a Sunday afternoon with no possible means of getting help until Monday.
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If so, just drive it home without one ! It's really not that hard, I've done it numerous times on several different cars (not all of them Triumphs).
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Yeah, I've done a lot of this as well. It was probably easiest in my old Volvo 144 and 145, with the long, spindly gear lever that provides lots of "feel" of the gearbox.

But I also managed to do this successfully several years ago in the Herald. The pressure plate literally "blew apart" as I went from 1st to 2nd going up a hill; no way to disengage the clutch from that point onward. Fortunately, I had enough momentum to keep going and get the car into 4th (method as Randall described). By some miracle of fate, I lucked out and hit green on all the remaining stop lights on the way home (another 15 miles). I do confess to gently rolling through the one stop sign I came to, since no cars were anywhere near in sight, but I made it home without assistance!
 
Unrealted to Triumphs but a funny realted story.

A few years back the guy next door had a motorcycle with an inpoprative clutch. He was wondering how to get it to the shop without a big expence. I asked him if he knew how to shif without a clutch. He replied "sure but I can't start without a clutch" To which I replied with a description of the joys of push starting. Anyhow, I give him a push and get him started and off he goes to the shop. At which time his wife gets in their cat to go meet him at the shop.

A long long while after they return in the car. I said, that shop must be far away. His wife says, "no it not but for some reason I had to wait a long long time for him to arrive." He then explains that it may be close but each time he came to a red light he turned right (regardless of which direction he needed to go) so the route was "a bit longer then normal".

I don't know what the family dinner was like at that house that night, but I had a story to add to my quiver.
 
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