>> Tequila Mockingbird
STOP STOP!!! You'e killing me here!
... loved that one. I'll have to find a place to use it.
Robert Duquette
Ottawa ON Canada
http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette
RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca
'65 RHD BRG Sprite
-----Original Message-----
From: Angela Hervey-Tennyson & Peter Westcott <toobmany@bigpond.com>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: March 28, 1999 5:48 AM
Subject: Re: tequila
>It would of course be a Tijuana Taxi and anyone with a fare could ride.
>But then given the popular method of consuming Tequila it could also be any
>lemon. But then it could also be one of the Beetles assembled in Mexico. I
>suppose though the real answer is that it's the make of car which Atticus
>drove in that famous novel Tequila Mockingbird.
>
>Peter Westcott
>
>----------
>From: Mark Snowdon <racer45@bellsouth.net>
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Help!! No not the Beatle's song
>Date: Sunday, 28 March 1999 17:55
>
>Toby Atwater wrote:
>>
>> I just did these last week.... 1st off the ones that were included with
>my new
>> wheel cylinder from Moss didn't fit at all. Even out of the car with the
>cylinder
>> in a vice. I decided to use the old clips. (Strike 2 against Moss) I
>just
>> struggled for an hour and I determined that I needed 3 arms to do it.
>However I
>> found this technique to be pretty good: use the brake line as something
>to hold it
>> in place for now (don't bend it) I used a pair of needle nose and got one
>of the
>> tips into its groove. now with the pliers you can nudge the other one
>into its own
>> groove., the center will go in by itself... the tips are the part that
>you can hold
>> with your pliers so use em. Also get the bleeder valve out of there.. it
>only makes
>> things worse. also I found just assembling it in your hands out side the
>car helps.
>> Do it a few times.
>>
>> don't pull a plier incident like I did! my chins still sore...
>> What I can't believe is that the WHOLE thing puts force on this c clip!
>the shoes
>> and everything! sometimes you wonder what the British guys were
>thinking....
>>
>> good luck...
>>
>> Toby
>> Santa Barbara, CA tob@taltec.net
>> 1969 Austin Healey Sprite mark 4 (in restoration now!)
>> Patiance et longeur de temps, vaut meux que force ni que mal.
>>
>> >I am replacing the wheel cylinders on our 69 Sprite, and can't get the
>> >$%#%^$& c clip in behind the cylinder, in order to hold it onto the
>> >backing plate. Is there a trick to doing these clips. Should i be
>> >inserting the center of the clip in the groove or the tips and then
>> >cramming the center down, or what. Please help...
>> >
>> >Mark Snowdon
>> >Greensboro NC
>> >
>
>Thanks for the tip Toby. The master mechanic in the family was able to
>do exactly as you suggested and got the c clip on as it should be. She
>may never let me live this down....However I did manage to even the
>score by being able to locate the brake shoe springs after her attempt
>didn't work.Thanks you all for your help, especially those of you who
>made suggestions on which drink went with which cars. But one question
>remains, what kind of car do you work on while drinking Tequila?????And
>who wants to go for a ride in it?
>
>Mark Snowdon
>BRGsboro,NC
>
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