Randell Jesup writes >
> All Sprites/Midgets until '67 (or so) had stock 4.22 rears. Later
>A-series cars had 3.9 rears, and I ignore the triumph-powered midgets... ;-)
So do I, generally, but I believe they carried the same 3.90/1 ratio diff.
>the engine
>never got warm enough to make the temp needle move - 1098's had it mounted in
>the radiator,
Yeah, wasn't THAT weird! A stuck thermostat would cook the engine and never
show on the gauge! My '66 was still hooked up that way, but the threads were
the same in the 1275 head as in the radiator, so I swapped them. The
temperature gauge in the combined oil pressure / water temperature gauge
housing didn't work, so I got a separate gauge from K-Mart and put it under the
dash. Don't cringe, purists, this car was not a restoration candidate.
>p.s. Cpt. Bobwrench, you still have all my Sprite books/manuals/catalogs...
>4.5 years and counting...
He never let me look at them when he lived here! :-) :-) :-)
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