- 1. Re: HELP with rings etc. 1275 midget (and a new car!) (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:17:44 EDT
- And it really stinks up your garage when you get a few gallons from work and run it in your shop kerosene heater....um, I heard. Never in abuse of your tax dollars, Ron
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00008.html (7,787 bytes)
- 2. Speedbleeders (was Re: Bleeding Clutch) (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:26:11 EDT
- On this past week's brake job, I uninstalled and then reinstalled Speedbleeders on the Bug (you shouldn't bleed a dry system with them on; you have to get most of the air out conventionally, then use
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00009.html (7,478 bytes)
- 3. Re: life expectancy for a hood (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:28:57 EDT
- My God, what a woman!
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00072.html (7,368 bytes)
- 4. Re: PCV needed? (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 11:56:25 EDT
- On the advice of a highly respected race engine builder / mechanical engineer, I left my cap closed, with leak-free success. Based on a post by Peter Samaroo, I then instead used an unconnected (on m
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00100.html (8,072 bytes)
- 5. Re: Temperature Question (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 12:03:53 EDT
- Just put it in boiling water. At sea level pressure you know you'll be at 212 (at 1000 feet it's 210, at 2000 ft it's 208). Careful to make sure the water is thoroughly boiling, and not to touch the
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00103.html (7,704 bytes)
- 6. Re: Church key (NO LBC) (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 13:57:46 EDT
- Ah, yes, beautiful Golden. I had a $105 per hour job offer to go into Rocky Flats near Golden to clean up plutonium trigger nuclear waste problems. I figured with all the 2 headed cows that were seen
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00122.html (7,769 bytes)
- 7. Actually have Sprite question today (wasRe: slant six - was: oiladditives (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:18:15 EDT
- I think the entire list needs to go on vacation. To Montana. For the Bugeye, I now need (technically) a front license plate in my new home state. I don't have a front bumper. I noticed Moss had a fli
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00125.html (8,158 bytes)
- 8. Re: Actually have Sprite question today (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 16:20:52 EDT
- Gee, why didn't I think of all these great suggestions!!! All these and someone else who thinks I have to cut the Sprite to add a plate holder! Boy, thanks a lot guys. And Allen, no one is anonymous.
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00144.html (8,163 bytes)
- 9. Re: A REAL Horn! (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:29:19 EDT
- What? Ron Veteran of 9 Who, 14 Springsteen concerts. Also did lots of testing 10 feet from JT-3 engines last year (with lots of ear protection)
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00211.html (6,829 bytes)
- 10. Re: TR7 viewing and a thought for the day (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:34:02 EDT
- Fantastic. I must admit to looking at a TR7 yesterday in used car lot (great shape, was $3495 firm, then $2995 firm, then $2495 firm, now $1995 obo). I could have used a few cows to break up the mono
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00212.html (8,378 bytes)
- 11. Re: TR7 viewing and a thought for the day (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:23:55 EDT
- Everything in its place... Drove the Bugeye to work this AM. Wouldn't trade it for anything (all right, maybe a 61-67 E-Type...). Ah, but the 7...the LBC Stepchild...the 7 would be tucked in a dark c
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00218.html (9,068 bytes)
- 12. Re: TR7 viewing and a thought for the day (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 11:24:42 EDT
- See you at Blackhawk, I take it? I'll be there for Sunday. If you're a list veteran, you'll recall the forerunner to my Bugeye was a Turbo Esprit. And the Bugeye is tons more fun.
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00226.html (8,474 bytes)
- 13. Re: oil additives (spelling corrected) (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:18:38 EDT
- This was all the rage in So. Cal when we lived there for a year in the mid 70's. We lived in a place called Palos Verdes, overlooking the Pacific (on my Dad's company's nickel; we couldn't have affor
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00266.html (7,066 bytes)
- 14. Re: From: Ronsoave@aol.com (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 14:38:20 EDT
- Maybe a 1 3/4 SU? Measure the diameter of the throat bolting to the manifold.
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00311.html (6,530 bytes)
- 15. axle o-ring size (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 19:24:52 EDT
- Does anyone know the exact o-ring size for the rear shafthub seal (diameter and thickness)? All that brake work last week aggravated a nasty leak, and upon opening it up the PO apparently tried a for
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00357.html (6,655 bytes)
- 16. Re: tanking tip (was Engine rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 10:52:36 EDT
- Trying to remember specifics, but when I got my "spotless" block back from tanking/machine work, I noticed an oil gallery plug at the back(maybe front) that hadn't been drilled out. I drilled it out
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00373.html (7,278 bytes)
- 17. Out driving? Yes - and who was that? (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 14:04:18 EDT
- While in between my 3 LBC runs this glorious spring day (no good destination, so I had to keep asking the SO for errands), a nice Midget, mustard color (harvest gold?) passed by my backyard on Hambor
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00022.html (7,059 bytes)
- 18. Re: HELP PLEASE from the engine buffs. (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 10:12:49 EDT
- Haynes I use the Haynes as a guideline, but use 2 books on general blueprinting and rebuilding as my real bibles. I don't have them here at work handy, but one is called something like "Engine Rebui
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00036.html (8,750 bytes)
- 19. Re: Judson Alternative, (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 17:11:00 EDT
- FWIW: If anyone is really interested in this turbo, see if you can find out who made it (part number ideally), and I can probably give you some info on the reliability. It is unlikely that Austin mad
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00063.html (7,986 bytes)
- 20. Re: Judson Alternative, (score: 1)
- Author: Ronsoave@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 19:56:53 EDT
- For those who care: The Garrett (Garrett became AiResearch, which became AlliedSignal) T3 is a good machine, with gas engine reliability of around 100K miles assuming the manufacturer has provided a
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00072.html (8,059 bytes)
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