- 1. My engine won't turn (score: 1)
- Author: Bob Askew <robert_askew@bc.sympatico.ca>
- Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 21:59:45 +0000
- Can anyone suggest what I might try next. I have mostly re-assembled my '64 MK III Sprite HAN 8 L 39070 following a bare metal restoration. I did not dismantle the engine at all as it had been rebuil
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00065.html (9,029 bytes)
- 2. Re: My engine won't turn (score: 1)
- Author: Carolyn/Rick <walters@mail.softcom.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 07:49:20 -0700
- Hi Bob, Don't have any good news. You didn't mention if the car rolls in neutral. I'm just trying to ascertain all the facts. It would be awful to remove the engine only to find you had a stuck rear
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00073.html (10,870 bytes)
- 3. Re: My engine won't turn (score: 1)
- Author: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 16:18:54 -0400
- Bob I came across this a few times. If rocking it in 4th sisn't budge the engine, it's seized. At the very least the head has to come off. I have had good luck with a suitable oak log and a really bi
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00101.html (8,949 bytes)
- 4. Re: My engine won't turn (score: 1)
- Author: "Peter C." <nosimport@mailbag.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 15:41:24 -0500
- I have too much experience with this. I've been able to, in all but 1 instance, free the engines without the 12lb sledge. (though I DID use a 10 pounder on the "1 instance" successfully) The junk ya
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00104.html (10,165 bytes)
- 5. Re: My engine won't turn (score: 1)
- Author: Mark Snowdon <racer45@bellsouth.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 18:39:33 -0700
- I dont know if this is any help, but is there any possibility that the bolts you used to put the flywheel on are too long? I have seen customers of ours take ford motors that we had run and once they
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00106.html (10,295 bytes)
- 6. Re: My engine won't turn (score: 1)
- Author: Lancer7676@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 18:54:25 EDT
- << But, rust-eater of your choice, and AT oil works wonders! >> I bought several cans of government surplus Rifle bore cleaner for 25 cents a can. That stuff is great for breaking rusty seizures. It
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00107.html (8,204 bytes)
- 7. Re: My engine won't turn (score: 1)
- Author: Brad Fornal <toyman@htcomp.net>
- Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 19:10:49 -0500
- Bob,I bought a 69 Midget out a garage that had not been run for 2 years after they gave the engine a good bath with no air cleaners,DPO's,"it ran great when we parked it in the garage!!" but now the
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00112.html (10,925 bytes)
- 8. Re: My engine won't turn (score: 1)
- Author: JustBrits@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 20:56:22 EDT
- Mark (etal): Is there some reason you can't shorten up your replies to the List?? As in what I have done at bottom of this THREE (3) pager??????????????? ** << Subj: Re: My engine won't turn Date: 8/
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00119.html (12,263 bytes)
- 9. Re: My engine won't turn (score: 1)
- Author: Nory P <nory_midget@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 00:04:42 -0700 (PDT)
- I seem to recall another lister with a similar problem a while back. I believe he filled the cylinders with diesel fuel to free them up. == **The above address is for list purposes only. Please send
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00139.html (8,180 bytes)
- 10. Re: My engine won't turn (score: 1)
- Author: HFC <froggi@cdsnet.net>
- Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 00:21:06 -0700
- ...now Ed! WFO Herb
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00141.html (13,747 bytes)
- 11. Re: My engine won't turn (score: 1)
- Author: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
- Date: Thu, 05 Aug 1999 03:28:03 -0400
- That sounds like me. Actually, my problem wasn't that the engine didn't turn, it was that the rings were gummed up so I had almost no compression. Soaking in diesel loosened them up enough to start t
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00142.html (9,161 bytes)
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