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21. Need some parts: Meet me at Chicago swap? (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:48:43 -0600 (CST)
This message is to anyone with parts that is planning to attend the Chicago MG club's parts swap meet on Sunday: I have found lots of good people on the net that have offered to sell me needed used p
/html/spridgets/1998-02/msg00468.html (7,880 bytes)

22. White smoke? (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 06:58:31 -0600 (CST)
Hi All, I am going to ask a question that probably know the answer to. After sitting for about 9 years after coming home from the machine shop, I started my engine about a month ago. Sure, the weathe
/html/spridgets/1998-02/msg00547.html (7,412 bytes)

23. Northern midwest events. (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 07:08:01 -0600 (CST)
Thanks to the individual who posted the message notifying us of the Chicago MG club's British parts swap meet held yesterday. I had a great time, ate a Chicago-style hot dog for breakfast and found l
/html/spridgets/1998-02/msg00548.html (7,229 bytes)

24. Order of operations question (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:24:07 -0600 (CST)
Hello everyone! With the goal of having the subsystems of the 1275 work in harmony, I will be adjusting the carburetors, setting the timing, setting the vacuum advance, (etc.?) Manuals usually say "h
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00126.html (7,283 bytes)

25. Re: Boiled the Tank (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 07:18:38 -0600 (CST)
Hi Dustin, It may be crud. Seems from the symptoms, however, that you may have a poor seal where the fuel line enters the tank. That connection is more than halfway up the side of the tank and a comp
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00172.html (8,675 bytes)

26. Re: The longest time... (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 08:31:34 -0600 (CST)
Hey Adrian, I have on my desk, a picture of my '69 Sprite taken by my mother on the day I began to disassemble it. It shows my Dad pointing and laughing at me. The picture is dated December 6, 1987.
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00178.html (8,454 bytes)

27. what bolts where? (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 13:38:12 -0600 (CST)
I am looking for a picture (or pictures) of the engine compartment for a '69 Sprite or equivalent on the web somewhere. Does anyone know of one? I'm having trouble figuring out where everything elect
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00190.html (7,268 bytes)

28. Generator question (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 07:53:46 -0600 (CST)
Hi all, First I want to thank everyone who offered assistance on the parts placement. I have a pile of clues now! Secondly, the finned plate behind the pulley on the generator spins independently of
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00217.html (6,751 bytes)

29. Re: Midget interior questions.... (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 12:54:03 -0600 (CST)
Gosh, I hope I don't have to spend any time in Spridget Purgatory! I'm thinking of deviating from original color too! Mine was originally BRG but the PO painted it sort of a dark brown with maroon me
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00223.html (9,200 bytes)

30. Fillers - was "rust buckets" (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 1998 08:47:18 -0600 (CST)
Hi Folks, I've been watching the thread about fillers and would be very interested in people's experience/opinions. I have all new metal where the rusted out portions would be. However, the work is i
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00268.html (7,821 bytes)

31. Re: Lucas Problem (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 08:03:45 -0600 (CST)
Does sound nutty. A crossed wire is pretty unlikely though. More likely, is a weak generator or a brake light circuit that is pulling too much current and diminishing the peak of the waveform such t
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00296.html (8,262 bytes)

32. Re: What year...? (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 14:14:14 -0600 (CST)
I suppose if it were cheap enough... In this guys defense: If mine didn't have the Sprite badge on the trunk (boot?), I might have called it "some kind of MG" too. Caveat emptor strikes again? (Don't
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00409.html (9,625 bytes)

33. Re: Fasteners (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 08:42:03 -0600 (CST)
Thanks for the advice Shawn, Can someone give a quick tutorial about "grades" of fasteners? What is unacceptable and why? Are they marked with a code? I don't think asking my local hardware guy would
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00437.html (8,622 bytes)

34. Re: Fasteners (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 11:02:17 -0600 (CST)
They may be crappy, but they sure are slow!! Jim Henderson '69 Sprite MKIV HAN9U78817G
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00445.html (9,306 bytes)

35. Re: Boiled the Tank (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:33:35 -0600 (CST)
Hi Dustin, Too early to give you a definitive "good" or "bad" as far as my tank's health is concerned. You'll be happy to know that you are entitled to my opinion though! :-) I think the main reason
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00588.html (9,010 bytes)

36. Re: Vacuum Line 1275 (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 06:28:04 -0600 (CST)
Hi all, My 1275 has the vacuum advance connected to the intake manifold. Do I just have a different kind of distributor or is this the wrong arrangement? Jim Henderson '69 Sprite MKIV HAN9U78817G
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00634.html (10,334 bytes)

37. Compressor tanks? (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 09:47:24 -0600 (CST)
Sorry about this not being directly related to Spridgets. My Dad has a 20 year old 2.5 HP Sears compressor whose tank has rusted through on the bottom. Since I will be painting in a couple of months
/html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00795.html (7,292 bytes)

38. Two trivial questions: (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 11:27:34 -0600 (CST)
Hello all, I am so close to starting this engine I can smell it! Silly things keep stumping me though. Question #1: Starter Should the stud where the starter is powered be away from or toward the eni
/html/spridgets/1997-12/msg00438.html (7,320 bytes)

39. Fuel line -- again (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 09:26:22 -0600 (CST)
When I asked about fuel line a few weeks back, most responses said 1/4". Is that OD or ID? Thanks, Jim Henderson '69 Sprite MKIV HAN9U78817G
/html/spridgets/1997-12/msg00453.html (6,737 bytes)

40. Re: She Runs ! (score: 1)
Author: jphender@soli.inav.net
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 11:40:39 -0600 (CST)
Congratulations on getting it running Chuck! I will be starting mine soon as well. (I hope) I don't have the "Neeee-Saaaan" tranny but when I bled my system I ran into the same "trickle" problem. Tur
/html/spridgets/1997-12/msg00455.html (8,479 bytes)


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