Re: Wheel s and oil Pressure

["Brian A.Tink" <batink@domain.elided>]

Ron

greetings from Canberra

I suggest that the reason for most stags having the alloy wheels is that
the alloy wheel not only were available on the later stags but also on the
2500S and it is a nice conversion and why buy5 wheels when 4 will do..

As for pressure, my trusty decimal conversion chart, now some 20 years old,
tells me that 1PSI = 6.89kPA or 1kPA = 0.145psi


keep staggering  brian  '74 stag  '74 2000  '78 2500s  '78 TR7

At 09:16 PM 2/08/98 +1000, you wrote:
>Just an inquiry on Mag Wheels ?
>
>I purchased Christine II ( A red Flamenco Mk II Stag ) here in Australia
>after a few months looking.   From the Heritage Certificate I got from
>Blighty it states the fittings include alloy road wheels, though it doesn't
>say if that was 4 or 5 .
>
>Each Stag I looked at here in Oz had 4 of the normal Stag Alloy wheels and
>the spare was a steel rim !   Was this the norm for these cars I ask?   I
>would have thought the UK Transport authorities would have insisted that
>the Spare be of the same ilk as those put to the road in every day use and
>Countries like Oz may have been even more strict !!.  
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>My question is if that was the case where did all the Odd road wheels go?
>Are all my odd socks in the same place along with all the car keys??.
>
>The other question on a more serious note is the oil gauge fitted reads in
>Kpa.  I assume this to be an atmospheric / pressure type gauge.  it hovers
>on 2.0 or is it 20 but I am darned if I can relate to it in Lbs as I don't
>know if the pressure is good or bad!.  (The gauge was made in England by
>Smiths and was fitted by a previous owner, Sadly it doesn't match the rest
>of the dials as it is MK1 Black), I guess I will be in the market for a few
>dials soon.
>
> Anyone a thought ?  If it is anything like diving I think one atmosphere
>is about 15Lbs per square inch.
>
>Ron Brown
>MK II 1977 Flamenco Red
>Gold Coast 
>Australia
>
>( Contrary to popular belief it is blooming cold here at present 10"c ) 
>P.S  Anybody know the whereabouts of my ex  Mk1 Pimento Red EBT 199L?  I am
>interested to know if she still looks as good as ever. 
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