- 1. SU fuel pump conversion (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:53:00 -0500
- Hi Listers, About a year or two ago someone posted information and a diagram, on how to convert a SU fuel pump to electronic, this got rid of the points All you needed was about $7.00 worth of parts
- /html/spridgets/2005-03/msg00353.html (7,468 bytes)
- 2. Propeller shaft removal, made easy (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:04:29 -0400
- It is interesting reading the number of different ways one can install a propeller shaft. What I did a number of years ago, because it seemed I was pulling the engine and transmission out of the car
- /html/spridgets/2006-04/msg00996.html (7,071 bytes)
- 3. Fw: Propeller shaft removal, made easy (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:59:52 -0400
- Believe me it works, I have owned the same car car 33 years, as I mentioned in the post, I had the engine and transmission out more times then I can remember in the early days. A nice long screw dri
- /html/spridgets/2006-04/msg01057.html (7,751 bytes)
- 4. The Curto rebuild? (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 17:02:22 -0400
- I have to agree with Billy Z.,for a $400.00 carb rebuild I would expect the carb bodies, float bowls and bells to be bead or shell blasted, believe me it doesn't take long. The vice marks on the bell
- /html/spridgets/2006-05/msg00822.html (7,659 bytes)
- 5. sprite heater duct tube (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 13:51:47 -0500
- The perfect replacement part or as close as you are going to get to the original is the the fresh air pipe/tube made for the MGA. The inside diameter of the piece is 3 1/4" it is sold by V.B., I can
- /html/spridgets/2006-12/msg00130.html (6,423 bytes)
- 6. Re: old days (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:19:31 -0500
- I remember going into a tavern under age, and being served, you had to be 21 years old to drink in Ontario, draft beer was 10 cents a glass, or 20 glasses for two bucks when you were with the boys. M
- /html/spridgets/2006-12/msg00300.html (7,585 bytes)
- 7. E-bay 190047961111 (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:44:57 -0500
- If you read all the positive feedback from Transworld Motors, the company that listed the Sprite Dave G. bought, you swear they must be the "SALT of the Earth", their add looked convincing. I think J
- /html/spridgets/2006-12/msg00604.html (6,788 bytes)
- 8. L.E.D. taillight bulbs (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 09:50:09 -0500
- There was a thread a few months ago, about switching to an LED bulb for brake and taillights. Does anyone have a part number or know where I can buy the bulbs? Thanks for any info. Greg Higgins
- /html/spridgets/2006-12/msg00663.html (6,918 bytes)
- 9. L.E.D. lights part 2 (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:15:44 -0500
- Thanks to everyone who sent me the info on LED taillights. There seems to be a few choices out there, from cheap to off the charts. I stumbled across a company called LED Tronics, via a Recreation Ve
- /html/spridgets/2006-12/msg00706.html (6,712 bytes)
- 10. e-bay sprite trunk (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:47:30 -0500
- This car popped up about 2 years ago. 320070264775 Reid Trummel posted pictures of the sprite and asked members on the different Sprite/Healey lists world wide if anyone had ever seen a car such as t
- /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg00416.html (6,888 bytes)
- 11. Replica Daytona Coupe (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:39:03 -0500
- Here is a guy that built a replica Dayton Coupe from the ground up. The amazing thing about this build, the man had no fabrication, or autobody experience. He was self taught, buying videos on body a
- /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01015.html (6,848 bytes)
- 12. L.B.C. made from Wood!! (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:03:30 -0500
- Yahoo! Photos My son sent me this link with some L.B.C. made from "WOOD". This may be something for Frank C. and the other wood working guys on the list to try if you get tired working on the metal L
- /html/spridgets/2007-01/msg01021.html (8,122 bytes)
- 13. [Spridgets] oil coming from dip stick (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:14:46 -0400
- I have seen an engine with oil coming up through the dip stick. The problem was 2 broken piston rings on # 4 cylinder, just my 2 cents. Greg Higgins _______________________________________________ Ed
- /html/spridgets/2007-08/msg00356.html (6,837 bytes)
- 14. [Spridgets] bugeye tach drive (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:22:25 -0400
- If anyone is looking for an original working tach drive, there is one for sale on e-bay, item 160159300543. This type is usually unobtainium, its bid is at $11.00. N.F.I. Greg Higgins 63 sprite ____
- /html/spridgets/2007-09/msg00437.html (6,794 bytes)
- 15. [Spridgets] Bugeye at Auction (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:21:02 -0500
- A friend of mine took his 1959 Bugeye Sprite to Hilton Head S.C.for the classic car auction. The car was restored 6 years ago, it's painted Iris blue, with a blue interior (blue carpet), the car is
- /html/spridgets/2007-11/msg00495.html (7,516 bytes)
- 16. [Spridgets] viton valve stem seals (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:50:00 -0500
- Has anyone ever used Viton valve stem seals? They look like they would do a better job then the stock thin O rings that I am using now. I was looking at them on the Austin America Web site www.austin
- /html/spridgets/2008-02/msg00082.html (6,945 bytes)
- 17. [Spridgets] parts washer solvent (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:43:14 -0500
- I have used diesel fuel in my parts washer with go results for years. Its cheap, when I need to change it over, there is a city recycle centre nearby that takes it away for free. Greg Higgins 63 spri
- /html/spridgets/2008-02/msg00178.html (8,138 bytes)
- 18. [Spridgets] road condition?? (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:02:36 -0400
- I was wondering if anyone has traveled I-40 west from Nashville to Okalahoma, and know if the highway is any good. I was told the pavement was in bad shape. I have a friend pulling a trailer on that
- /html/spridgets/2008-03/msg00537.html (7,058 bytes)
- 19. [Spridgets] fuel prices in Canada, no LBC (score: 1)
- Author: "Greg Higgins" <higgs6@cogeco.ca>
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:18:18 -0400
- We are paying $5.58 an imperial gallon (4.5 litres) for regular gas, or $4.96 a U.S. gallon (4 litres) where I live, west of Toronto. Fuel is sold by the litre Canada, $1.24 today, diesel is the same
- /html/spridgets/2008-08/msg00687.html (7,313 bytes)
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