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1. Re: Boot Light (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 07:44:01 -0700 (PDT); You won't need a relay for resistive loads like auto lights.....just use adequate wire similar to the existing wiring. But don't wire them in series....wire in parallel if you want them to operate of; /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00201.html (9,262 bytes)
2. Re: Dim Headlights (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 13:59:39 -0700 (PDT); Try running a hot jumper directly from battery hot to the hot terminal on the lamp. If the lamp is still dim, you have a bad ground. If the lamp lights brightly when jumped directly to the battery, t; /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00314.html (8,344 bytes)
3. Re: The truth about thermostats? (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 09:45:08 -0700 (PDT); Regarding removing the thermostat: You use a replacement restriction (blanking sleeve, gutted thermostat) in the system to approximate the original flow pattern, not to change flow rate. The original; /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01171.html (11,946 bytes)
4. Snake-oil Works! Was: thermostat issues (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 07:03:46 -0700 (PDT); I've had good luck with the PB Blaster too....it seems more "active" than Liquid Wrench. I picked up a spray can of the stuff at Pep Boys, mainly cause the labeling was so snakeoil-lookin' I had to t; /html/spridgets/1999-07/msg00416.html (8,010 bytes)
5. Re: Smoke ! (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 15:24:27 -0700 (PDT); Smoking is not unusual on a new rebuild. Oil smoke usually cures itself on break-in. A break-in of 500-2000 miles may be required for the rings to wear in and seal properly. Assuming your machine wor; /html/spridgets/1999-07/msg00453.html (9,745 bytes)
6. Re: Engine paint (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:11:41 -0400 (EDT); The auto parts store chains all carry engine enamels, such as Plasticote brand at Pep Boys. WalMart usually carries car engine paint as well. They all seem to work fine. The metallic colors seem to a; /html/spridgets/1999-07/msg01100.html (9,283 bytes)
7. Re: Temperature Question (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 08:36:36 -0700 (PDT); Some possibilities: Could your gage be off-calibration, and reading high? You might check that by undoing the sensor and dropping it in a pan of hot water, using a good thermometer in the pan for a r; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00098.html (10,608 bytes)
8. Re: Temperature Question (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 14:28:49 -0700 (PDT); No direct effect, as you say.... but there is the possibility (remote, in this case), that if he's operating close to boiling on his gage temp, that he's experiencing excessive localized boiling at h; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00150.html (8,498 bytes)
9. Re: Temperature Question 2 (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 07:13:57 -0700 (PDT); Now it doesn't sound like you had a thermostat problem. Running with the gutted plate showed how cool the system could possibly run.....190 deg at the gage. So you're not gonna get it to run any cool; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00215.html (9,958 bytes)
10. Re: Temperature Question 2A (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 09:14:24 -0700 (PDT); You're correct that the wrong paint, or especially too thick a coating of about any paint, can be somewhat detrimental. But I really don't think it would cause the kind of diffences you're seeing. Th; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00232.html (9,308 bytes)
11. Re: 79 Midget exhaust (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 14:08:09 -0700 (PDT); Victoria British and probably others sell a straight pipe that replaces the catalytic. It was used in one of the emission-transition year periods and should fit without modification as a replacement; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00878.html (9,290 bytes)
12. RE: Coil.... To Ballast or Not To Ballast.... (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 11:38:45 -0700 (PDT); If you're talking about a late Midget, the rectangular ballast bolted underneath the fender lip where the hood closes on the driver side, that ballast is not the coil ballast. The coil ballast (at le; /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01510.html (10,544 bytes)
13. Re: MG keys (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:18:55 -0800 (PST); VB's latest catalog offered two types of blanks for keys. They show two patterns of blanks, one of which matched my 78 key. I haven't tried them, and the price seemed a little high, but there's one l; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00048.html (9,735 bytes)
14. Tailight assy interchangeability (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 07:49:21 -0700 (PDT); Does someone know if the late Midget tailight assy and the earlier one (the kind with two lenses) are physically interchangeable? I need a new tailight on my 78 Midget, and I can pick up a pair of th; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00799.html (7,567 bytes)
15. Re: Turn signals kaput! (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 06:28:42 -0700 (PDT); It could still be the hazard switch, even though the hazard function is ok. The switch selects between contact groups -- one group sets up the turn signals, the other group is the hazard. The switch; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01182.html (9,293 bytes)
16. Re: Turn signals kaput! (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 08:15:54 -0700 (PDT); I had the same idea when I saw the way it was designed -- there's certainly other ways to wire the hazard. I have worked up a wiring diagram for a relayed hazard and many other changes, but I have no; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01187.html (12,664 bytes)
17. Re: Thermostat Differences and dumb things (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 08:03:28 -0700 (PDT); The thermostat sets the minimum temp of the coolant in your system. It blocks the flow through your radiator until the temp hits the set point, then releases flow. Your operating coolant temp will th; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01424.html (10,018 bytes)
18. Re: Lighten up (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 09:26:32 -0700 (PDT); I'm waiting for the "kaput" thread to get back to the original topic of turn signals before I comment again.... == Michael B. Dietsche, P.E.; /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01434.html (9,363 bytes)
19. Baking enamel....... (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:33:12 -0800 (PST); I recently had an interesting experience baking enamel on parts. I put some small parts that had been primed and painted with spray enamel into a 200 deg oven. It looked good but the paint later came; /html/spridgets/1999-03/msg00338.html (8,231 bytes)
20. Re: Newbie Question (score: 1): Author: Michael Dietsche <mdietsche@yahoo.com>; Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 07:02:52 -0800 (PST); Someone will correct me on the numbers (hopefully), but I seem to remember that the UK version is 9:1, and the US version is 7.5:1 or 8:1. The UK slugs are flatops; the US pistons are dished out to r; /html/spridgets/1999-03/msg00467.html (8,325 bytes)

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