I'm laughing here at the prospect of "loving the process" of working on
Spidgets.
I was treated with a reminder of one of the reasons the Brits aren't in the
car biz anymore while working on a few of mine today.
I pulled the toasted motor out of the race car, in the neverending quest to
make the upcoming Grattan race with a snappy 948. That went well... all
familar territory for me. The whole "race prep" process, while a lot of
work, is most enjoyable
Then, at the end of the day, tired, filthy, a little sunburned....I went to
do a simple oil change on my bone stock (now 23,000 mile) MKIII Sprite. All
was seemingly right with the world, until that stupidass O ring gizmo in the
cannister style (all my race stuff's got spin on filters) decided not to
seat and pissed about a quart on the new blacktop driveway. ARGGGGHHH.
After removing the whole assembely from the side of the block, a half a bag
of oil dry, and a couple... well, ok... four vodka tonics... I'm feeling a
little better now.
WST
----- Original Message -----
From "bill b." <w_burrell at yahoo.com>
To: "spridget list" <spridgets@autox.team.net>; "midgetsprite group"
<midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: was size limits, now lights, again
> --- Brad Fornal <toyman@digitex.net> wrote:
> > Why not just get a new harness from British Wiring,
> > save alot of time and
> > headaches!!!
>
>
> It's one of those "I didn't see it coming" things. I
> was just going to clean the connections; oh, this
> switch is bad, I will just replace it. Oh wait, the
> dash is rusted through here, well I guess I had just
> better pull that sucker off. Uh, now that I have that
> off I see that these wires are burned and this one has
> pulled away from its bullet connector. No problem. Hm,
> what are those little metal sleeves that keep falling
> out of those connectors. Why do all of these wires
> that are supposed to go to the panel lamps run to the
> radio.
>
> So, you see, not being one who can back up or stop
> long enough to take a new tack (Is that a nautical
> term?) I often find myself long lost in the project.
>
> I have learned that working on Spridgets (for me) is
> like doing art. You had better love the process,
> because if you count on the product coming out a
> particular way you might as well do something else.
>
> But, boy next time I will save up and order a new
> harness and stock switches. Yah right. :-)
>
> cheers, bill b.
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