Charlie, congratulations on your ride, I logged a few miles in ours this
weekend as well. I would recommend rebuilding the carbs, we never got that far
with them, they have not been touched in at least 7 years and they sat for 4 of
those years......... Are you gonna come down to Pate??
Brad
-----Original Message-----
From: shelden [mailto:shelden3@pldi.net]
Sent: Sun 4/14/2002 11:10 PM
To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Cc:
Subject: good day for a drive
I finally got to spend some quality time in my Midget today. The wife and I
logged about 150 miles in it. It was our first drive in this lil car. Well
first real drive. I've spent the past 4 months cleaning out the interior,
putting in an engine, adding new carpet and replacement seats. I replaced
all the electrics including a wiring harness from British Wiring. Every
thing is working but the high beams. The car runs pretty good, I can't seem
to pull much past 3000rpm though it starts to sputter I"m guessing it is
leaning out. I'll need to do some adjustment on the SU's to fix that. It
acts sort of rich on start up though. Could this be a needle issue? It
prob. wouldn't hurt to replace all that in the SU's. I have a DCOE 40
sitting on the bench, it has a future home in the 69 as well. I still have
my 71, it looks sort of sad sitting off to the side. I haven't decided to
finish it or sell her.
All in all it was a good day in Oklahoma, light winds and 80's out. We just
got in about 10, the wife really liked the drive looking out at the stars as
well. Now she is hooked, and I can buy more toys ;) hehe.
Charlie Shelden
OKC, OK
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