Mean-assed Black Widow I'd say!
Good time to rebuild both. Your brake MC could let go too.
WFO
>From: RBHouston@aol.com
>Reply-To: RBHouston@aol.com
>To: spridgets@autox.team.net, midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: Clutch Problem
>Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 23:26:19 EDT
>
>OK...before you all pass out from the oddity of me asking a Spridget
>question...how about some advice.
>
>I bought a new battery for the Midget today. The hot weather is dropping
>down into the low 90's so it's to start driving the Midget again. Real men
>don't cre about skin cancer!
>
>Got a little adventure added to life while I was changing the battery. I
>was
>scrunched over the fiender, head under the bonnet struggling with the
>posive
>battery cable when I glanced down (about 6 inched down) at the solenoid and
>there was the biggest black widow spider I'ver ever seen crawling up
>towards
>my nose!
>
>15 minutes and a can of Raid later, the Midget started right up! Only
>problem is, I step on the clutch and the pedal goes to the floor! Of
>course
>the Master cylinder is dry. I fll it up, but stll the pedal wont even pump
>up any pressure for the slave.
>
>Bad master? Bad slave?
>
>Ed, Peter? Got a price on replacements?
>
>All comments are welcome, even about my arachniphobia...and not, I didn't
>attempt to shoot the bugger!
>
>Robert Houston
>
>There is no better tonic for the heart than making a child smile.
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