Newsletter 04 - August 1998

Good Ideas!
Had a phone call from Brian Pitt on 3 rd June, sorry I was a bit sharp with you
Brian. (I don’t know why, but I thought you were one of those dreaded telesales
people, or some thing similar). He was phoning among other things, to say that
he had used a ‘different’ fuel filler cap, as the Fiat one supplied in the kit had
leaked on corners. (I feel sure that I read about that a while ago, causing
problems for Minis making the rear tyre slippery and causing them to go off the
road). Any way the cap he used has cured the problems of spillage and with his
set up of different fuel pipe has speeded up the refilling, which I was moaning
about in the last N.L.
His cap is, unfortunately, non locking. For those interested he has used a 3”
aircraft cap from Marlin Motor Sport with the part number CAP 2TF, apparently
it fits as a straight replacement on the Minari. With the 2” diameter pipe he has
used, plus an “S” pipe from Europa makes for a much quicker filler and none of
the glooping problem I have complained of.
Being ever on the look out for items to include perhaps you could send me
drawings/sketches of your set up for publication (and using myself).
Thanks Brian.
Brian said that he had misplaced Chameleons phone number, so I have included
it in this, and will include it in future N.L.s.
26 June. When I got home from that place where money comes from I don’t
like the word work…. I found that Clive Wilkins had sent in his applica@on form.
So welcome Clive. However I feel that I must take him to task because
theboAom of the form had a short note wriAen in red crayon! PS Brother’s Sud
is an SC Not a TC – Just in case there are any anoraks out there! Are we not anoraks
our selves, and if we aren’t, we need them anyway. We need some one to
take the p..s out of don’t we?
Help Wanted.
Every @me I jack the side of the car up, before I can lower the car again I have to
re-seAle the rear spring over its seat. Not a major problem, but something which
niggles, mainly because I forget to do it. Has anyone come up with a fiendish
way of geDng the spring to re-seat itself. If somebody has, please let me know.
I am afraid that I will end up damaging the edge of the sea@ng when it is taking
all of the weight on its edge.
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