Two suggestions: 1 - If you have a helper chock on rear wheel and jack
up other , place the car in 4th gear and have helper turn raised wheel
while you observe valves reaching desired position. 2 - No helper
available. Place car on level grade and place in 4th gear, push car
till valves reach desired position. Safety Fast, David Deutsch.
You wrote:
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>Hello list,
>
>I adjusted the valves on my 65 Sprite with the 1275 last night. I
could not
>figure out an easy way of turning the engine other than short bursts
of the
>starter. The crank pulley seemd to be unreachable, and the fan is
tightly
>shrouded. What am I missing (I just bought this car and all of my
previous
>experience is with VWs)?
>
>Thanks for your input,
>
>Jeff
>
>
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>Jeff Boatright '65 Sprite Mk III (funfunfun)
>Editor-in-Chief, Molecular Vision '47 Cessna 140 (in pieces)
>http://www.emory.edu/molvis '87 Horizon (pick-up with full
cab)
> http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~jboatri/sprite/sprite.html
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