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I have a couple year old Michelin 165-15 XZX on my TD. Made by Michelin in Serbia. Only weird thing-they had about a thousand " tire nibs" on them. No problem for the 4 on the ground. But I'm doing a show in a month and spent about half and hour with a belt sander to get them off of the spare so it didn't look hairy! I had them trued and balanced on the car, amazingly smooth. George

FWIW....the rims can handle a tire size up to 175 wide. I have Michelin ZX 175R15 tires on the car at present. However, it does not appear Michelin makes the ZX series any longer. I think there are a few other tire manufactures who do make a 175/15 tire. I chose that size tire to fill-up the fender wells a bit more since the tires are pretty skinny to begin with. No clearance issues using the...

I put Vredisteins on my TF 155R15. Think it was a mistake and should have put on the 165R15.

When you say "couple of mm" do you think you have something out of line?

Have you driven it since correcting the king-pin to damper alignment? Has the wheel angle driving in a straight line changed?

You could check the tracking, and see if it pulls to one side on a flat (no camber) level surface. Trakrite first one side then the other will probably show up any difference between s...

All done - I released the top of the ARB, and the whole removal did not take long. The pivot shaft is off and looks OK to me. I will take take to someone in the know for a second opinion

All that is left after this is the hub/king pin assembly or the cross member. We are only talking a couple of mm so its difficult to measure?

That would have given the game away. 😉


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It'll be interesting to see how much HP it puts out if they do a full pull on it---

Hope you have a good day

willy

While I’ve replaced the dissy cap thought would change the ht leads, everything is updated then. Already replaced coil and rotor arm, as well as faulty (?) electronic ignition module.
Currently have the bumblebee copper core, with resister plug caps. So got some more bumblebee wire from Powerspark, however the copper core is noticeably smaller and the copper strands very thin. Will leave the ...

Just to repeat. No petrol smell under car, or any fuel drips. The smell is only in the boot. I've dropped the tank several times to check. No tank leaks. No sender gasket leaks. Logically, it can only be the filler neck inside the boot.

Thanks Willy. You've convinced me.

Although, as you say, unleaded came in a long time ago, but it's only in the last 6 months to a year that I've...

I couldn't have said it better. RIP Rod.