[Spridgets] Have clutch, will travel

[Michael Rowe]

I got my clutch working.  Not completely, but enough to drive my lovely assistant around town.

One person can't do what I did; it takes two.  I got a plastic horse syringe from a veterinarian's office for $5 and put in on the bleeder valve with two sizes of tubing, one that fit the bleeder and another shoved inside that fit the syringe.  The two seal together well enough for sucking, but not blowing.  I then sucked a LOT of fluid through, while my lovely assistant poured a LOT of fluid into the reservoir.  It doesn't work with one person because, in the time it takes to refill the reservoir, the bubbles can rise back to the top of the pipe (assuming, of course, you can manage to remember to stop before the reservoir sucks air).  It has to be a constant, high-volume flush that flows downward faster than the bubbles can float upward.  An Eezibleed is probably easier, but it costs $60.

I still can't get inspected.  Half of the rear lights that were working a month ago are no longer working.  And I broke my washer/wiper lever trying to make it dim the headlights.  

But I have a clutch.
Sort of.

Michael Rowe
'74 Midget
Long Island, NY