In <19970707214321687.AAA65@default>, Steve Byers wrote:
>The books say you can put the car in gear and roll it slowly forward to
>turn the engine, but this probably only works easily with all the
>sparkplugs out. I haven't had too much success with it. I don't know what
>the access to the crank pulley is in a '65 Sprite with a 1275, but in my
>Midget I have found that a chain strap wrench around the crank pulley works
>well. It's not super easy to get this wrench on the pulley, but not
>impossible, either.
>
I am puzzled by all of this discussion of how to turn the engine.
It's British, use the hand-crank (the one that the muscle-car yobs
laugh at....)
A. B. Bonds
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