- 201. Re: 77 Midget value cover grommets (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 14:59:22 -0400
- The winner was "Fisher Jones" of Comfort Texas. He had the first reponse either to the list or my mail box. Since I forgot to state in the rules that no prize subsitutions will be allowed fisher want
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00072.html (9,827 bytes)
- 202. Re: AN5-L612 just came out of spray booth (delete if you don't care about originality) (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1998 16:37:16 -0400
- Visit Frank's web page. You will find a car their just like that. He built it from pieces, and it is part midget part bugeye. I would not call Franks car goofy though. I sure he will add the specific
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00074.html (10,277 bytes)
- 203. Re: Side Curtain Seal Source (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:29:23 -0400
- ZAP is just a Cyanoacrylates glue, like crazy glue. I have used this stuff for building model airplanes. It comes in various viscosity's from thin to thick. There web site is http://www.pacertech.co
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00162.html (8,294 bytes)
- 204. Re: Distributor problems (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 13:20:04 -0400
- This is a follow up to my distributor problems that I was having several weeks ago. One of the listers was nice enough to swap my wobbling dizzy with one that worked fine. When he was doing the swap,
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00198.html (8,561 bytes)
- 205. Low Compression, 77 Midget 1500 cc (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1998 14:29:05 -0400
- My 77 Midget (1500 engine) has an oil leak down low by the dipstick. I thought it was the pan gasket. After I put in my new dizzy I found that I was leaking even more oil. I found that the oil is not
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00200.html (9,726 bytes)
- 206. Re: New Product (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 16:54:32 -0400
- Another way you can use an eraser is to cut the penicl down to ~ 2" and put in an electric hand drill. The you can spin the eraser to clean contacts that are hard to get at with a rubbing motion. Thi
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00549.html (8,611 bytes)
- 207. Leakdown test results (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 22:48:55 -0400
- The results of my leak down test are in and I must say it do not prove all that much to me. What I did was remove the valve rocker arm so that all of the valves would be shut. I then proceeded to cha
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00732.html (8,659 bytes)
- 208. Head & manifold removal, 77 Midget (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 23:11:06 -0500
- This should be a simple task. I need to get the head off my 77 Midget. I have several shop manuals and one says to leave the manifolds on, and one says to remove them. Here is what I did. 1. removed
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg00785.html (9,768 bytes)
- 209. Re: Head & manifold removal, 77 Midget (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 09:22:39 -0500
- Thanks to everyone who responded. I am going to try feeding some soft cotton rope into the cylinder and turing it over by hand. I should have enough room to fit a wrench on the crank with the radiato
- /html/spridgets/1998-10/msg01026.html (9,537 bytes)
- 210. SUMMARY: Insurance for LBCs (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 14:51:34 -0400
- About 1 month ago I posted a question about insurance for a LBC. I got back lots of responses. They seemed to fall into 2 categories. The first is some type of collectors insurance. The second is a r
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg00014.html (11,640 bytes)
- 211. Midget is on the road (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 18:03:27 -0400
- I finally got my 77 Midget on the road. Put on two new rear tires to replace the cracked ones and took the car to work. Since my gas gauge does not work I stopped and filled the tank. Then I decided
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg00052.html (7,753 bytes)
- 212. Re: Speedo cable broke! (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:47:10 -0400
- Was that because you were too drunk to inhale? :-) -- Bill Gilroy E-mail: wmgilroy@lucent.com Telephone: 732-957-4775 Fax: 732-957-4775
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg00320.html (9,797 bytes)
- 213. Re: Fallfest in Dover, NJ (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1998 14:45:06 -0400
- I thought that was next Sat. I might make it but I have some prior commitments that need to be juggled. If someone has gone before, what is the swap meet like. -- William M. Gilroy 77 Midget which co
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg00365.html (9,180 bytes)
- 214. Re: No power (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:36:55 -0400
- Not much power huh. I followed Frank out of a rest stop on I-287 and he left me in the dust. All I could see was a little yellow dot on the horizon :-) If he isn't happy with his 1275, he would hate
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg00472.html (8,417 bytes)
- 215. Re: Fallfest Luminaries (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 15:55:34 -0400
- I also made it to Fallfest and was able to meet some of the lister. Nice helpful bunch. One of the parts I was looking for for my Midget was a speedometer. The one I had always read low and both the
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg00473.html (9,581 bytes)
- 216. Distributor problems (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 13:58:11 -0400
- My car is a 1977 Midget with a 1500 cc engine. Last night I went to start a tune-up on the car. I was first going to adjust the air gap on the electronic ignition. I took the distributor cap off and
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg00564.html (8,979 bytes)
- 217. Re: British Car Day - Oakville, Ontario (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:28:53 -0400
- 2 points + fine As seen in all the signs. I think the fine is less for running over the brownie who would give you the ticket then the fine for blocking the box. -- Bill Gilroy E-mail: wmgilroy@lucen
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg00830.html (9,898 bytes)
- 218. Re: Too Many Messages? (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 09:47:11 -0400
- Daryl, I am sending this to the entire list because other people may feel that this is a problem. The techno weenie in me speaks. One solution to this type of problem (if you consider it a problem) i
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg00902.html (10,563 bytes)
- 219. Re: Distributor problems (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 18:09:55 -0400
- I finally found out which dizzy I have in my car. I looked at the dizzy and it looked like a 25D but the cap was different. The cap in the Haynes Midget manual has terminals that screw in and mine ha
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg00923.html (10,078 bytes)
- 220. 77 Midget value cover grommets (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@lucent.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 21:39:05 -0400
- Once again it time for another episode of that exciting game show, "Guess what part is on Bill's Midget." That's right now you have a chance to win valuable prizes. Here is a small sample of the priz
- /html/spridgets/1998-09/msg01030.html (9,960 bytes)
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