- 121. sprite dragster! (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:10:20 GMT
- Does anybody have any information on a guy called Jeff Watson who runs a (national record holding) 4 cyl sprite dragster? I picked up a pamphlet today for penrite's 10tenths synthetic range and it ha
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00860.html (6,802 bytes)
- 122. superchargers (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:16:29 GMT
- If anyone is interested, there is a mob out here called HP performance who are supplying superchargers for minis spridgets and mgbs. They are a twin rotor job and come as a complete kit with all pull
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00861.html (6,774 bytes)
- 123. Re: Cool LBC (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:39:39 GMT
- Is R-12 still legal there? Over here it isn't but it can be obtained. I was told recently that the biggest contraband import into the US, after cocaine, is old-school, ozone killer CFC's. Andy
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00863.html (10,311 bytes)
- 124. Re: superchargers (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 13:43:18 GMT
- I don't have one..I don't think theyz cheap....sit tight for 5 mins... scan comin' Andy.
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00865.html (7,831 bytes)
- 125. Re: shock absorbers (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 15:19:32 GMT
- My 'Caltex lubrication and tune up manual' specifies auto trans fluid, which at first seemed odd, but when you think about it, it is a hydraulic system so ATF makes sense. I know there are folks on
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00876.html (7,792 bytes)
- 126. handy hotmail!(communal) (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 14:45:20 GMT
- I have taken the liberty of setting up a hotmail account for EVERYBODY on the list to use. It enables us to send everyone ATTACHMENTS, PICTURES etc without doing everybody individually, seeing the l
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg00958.html (7,404 bytes)
- 127. Re: Cool LBC (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 07:34:15 GMT
- I thought the problem with refrigerant was not so much a greenhouse one but an ozone one. I remember hearing in an environmental chemistry lecture that one molecule of CFC such as R12 destroys around
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01014.html (9,462 bytes)
- 128. re:supercharger (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 06:03:50 GMT
- Got to: login as USERNAME:spridget_list PASSWORD: mgaustin I set this hotmail account up for anybody on the list to use for attachments, pictures and any other stuff that can't be sent straight to th
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01044.html (6,895 bytes)
- 129. Re: Cool LBC (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 03:06:27 GMT
- A better solution would be for all of us to install vertical tailpipes that extend to the upper atmosphere thereby replenishing lost ozone as we drive! Andy
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01057.html (10,507 bytes)
- 130. Re: Cool LBC (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 03:24:05 GMT
- I would think that the contribution to the greenhouse effect of these gases is fairly insignificant when stacked against say, carbon dioxide simply because of the massive amounts of CO2 we put into t
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01058.html (11,274 bytes)
- 131. Re: exhaust bandage (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 03:53:29 GMT
- You could stick a hose clamp (or 2) around it....stop it falling off.
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01060.html (10,412 bytes)
- 132. Re: The truth about thermostats? (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 04:18:51 GMT
- I have read in several places that you can omit the thermostat, but you must then install a 'blanking sleeve'. So either way you need to get in there.. I'd go with the thermostat....quicker warmup. A
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01062.html (9,581 bytes)
- 133. clutch "throwout bearing"?? (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 18:26:12 GMT
- hello list, okay, so while my engine is out I thought I'd glace at the bellhousing contents. There is a circular component over the input shaft and attachd to the lever/fork from the slave cylinder.
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01175.html (8,064 bytes)
- 134. Re: clutch "throwout bearing"?? (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 07:01:01 GMT
- How much should one cost? I just went to REPCO and they quoted me $83 for a carbon TO bearing. damn near soiled myself!
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01241.html (9,485 bytes)
- 135. Re: Big Folks (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:51:34 GMT
- Have any of us less petite spridgeteers worked out how to steal any extra leg room? I don't know how anybody can fit in with a factory steering wheel! mine has a little sports wheel. Has anybody perh
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01243.html (9,393 bytes)
- 136. Re:keeping dry:was The truth about 'stats (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:22:20 GMT
- One does not keep the interior dry...one has holes drilled in the floor at low points to allow for drainage.
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01266.html (7,913 bytes)
- 137. Re: clutch "throwout bearing"?? (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 15:55:23 GMT
- I've been told that there is a roller bearing available but, because of the'loose' tolerances, the bearing may engage off centre causing it to deteriorate rapidly. Andy P.S found one for $32 at the '
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01269.html (10,074 bytes)
- 138. Re: clutch "throwout bearing"?? (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:13:06 GMT
- Sounds like Repco is selling a clutch kit, maybe? No. that entered my mind too so I asked,...brace yourself ...$335 for a clutch kit! sorry 'bout that last post...hit send by accident Andy
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01273.html (7,955 bytes)
- 139. 1100 assembly question(s) (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 16:14:01 GMT
- I'm seeking any tips from those who have assembled an A-series or two as I've just got mine back the shop ready to go back together...I trust. It's the 1098 that you may remember consumed #2 big end
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01429.html (8,169 bytes)
- 140. gaskets:to goo or not to goo? (score: 1)
- Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:51:40 GMT
- should I be using gasket sealant/cement on such gaskets as front and rear engine cover plates? If so, will a smear of hi-temp silicone suffice? Has anyone ever compiled (or know of) an ordered list o
- /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01497.html (6,893 bytes)
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