To: Guy Weller <guy@weller-lakes.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: engine pull...
From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:54:55 -0500
CC: Bill <pythias@pacifier.com>, spridgets@autox.team.net
Organization: Positive Earth Drivers Club
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Guy Weller wrote:
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> But if your name isn't Franc Clarici and you havn't pulled a spridgit
> engine before, allow half a day, at least!
If you don't stop to gab, drink beers, look for tools, how can it take 1/2
a day? It takes longer for the radiator to drain then it does to undo all
the bolts. (I undo bolts while the radiator is draining, this does cut the
time in half ;)
Lets see, 66 Sprite has 4 radiator bolts
2 rad hoses and 2 heater hoses, and 1 fuel hose, 5 hose clamps total.
4 wires on the engine (2 genny, 1 dizzy, 1 oil filter)
3 motor mount bolts, 2 mount nuts
4 tranny mount bolts, 2 slave bolts and a slave pin.
4 shifter cover screws, 3 shifter bolts
1 temp sensor, 1 oil hose, 1 speedo cabel, 1 choke cable (and I keep the
accell cable attached, I just pop it off the gas pedal linkage)
8 bonnet bolts and 2 exhaust bolts w/nuts
So 23 bolts, 4 nuts, 4 screws (10 screws with the grille), 5 hose clamps, 1
pipe, 1 temp sensor, 3 cables. That should only take an hour, now add a few
minutes to pull it out, and it's done in just over an hour. But add 6
beers, lost tools, people BS-ing with you, going by the book, and other
unrelated intrusions, and it may take 1/2 a day.
When I'm in a hurry, I pull them out, change trannys or complete clutch and
drive it out of the garage in just under 2 hours. But only if I have to be
somewhere in a hurry. ;)
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
Tim Collins
Midland, MI
1966 AH Sprite
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