Frank:
If you get these results as an expert, what lies ahead for us beginners?
(My 1960 Sprite with 5-speed is just starting its rebuild.)
Tell us you woke up and it wasn't true.
Daryl
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> From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: Help
> Date: Saturday, January 03, 1998 9:54 AM
>
> Hi All
> I drove my 60 Sprite with 5 speed for the first time today. Any body want
to buy
> it!
>
> rebuilt 1275, leaks oil as fast as you can pour it in....If I hook up the
PCV, it
> burns yellow clouds of smoke so thick you can't see my yard.
>
> Datsun 5 speed, drive shaft knocks on trans tunnel, too long a space
between 2nd
> and 3rd.
>
> All new brakes which lock up all by themselves even without touching the
brake
> pedal!
> Silicone fluid probable cause.
>
> Recored radiator, only boils over at 160 degrees.
>
> New fuel pump only needs an occasional tap with a hammer.
>
> New Lucas ignition switch, car must still be hot wired to get ignition??
>
> Fresh paint, yellow with black rally stripe, rust only starting in some
places.
>
> Rebuilt SUs that need replacing with a real carb or other SUs.
>
> New exhaust but who can hear it over the drive shaft grind?
>
> Some addition assembly required, all parts thrown in boot.
>
> I would ask for serious inquires only but who in their right mind would
want this?
>
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Too many Sprites
> http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
>
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