[Spridgets] Weekend progress

[rrengineer @dslextreme.com]

Send them out to Peter at Worldwide.  They will never leak again and they
will work like new.  Quite reasonable cost too.  BNo financial interest,
just a very satisfied customer.
Mike MacLean
60 Sprite
56 BN2

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 3:35 PM, David Ambrose <stargazer1 at cox.net> wrote:

> Just got finished with some work on my son's Midget. Some routine, some not
> so routine.
>
> Oil change was routine. The PCV valve installation was not. All went well
> until we discovered the distributor had come loose. Retimed the engine, then
> started syncing the carbs. All of a sudden, we had oil going everywhere.
> Seems that we didn't have the requisite vented filler cap. The PCV valve
> happily sucked up a bunch of engine oil and dumped it into the intake
> manifold. What a mess. Replaced the filler cap with the correct one. and
> restarted. We're now getting oil leaking on the left side of the engine. We
> called it quits for the night.
>
> We were originally thinking that we had a leak at the side plate covers. It
> was a nice theory except that this engine doesn't have them. Are all 1275s
> like that? This morning, we pulled the carburetters, and the manifolds. We
> cleaned up all the oil.
>
> Found the leak -- at the valve cover gasket, replaced the gasket with
> in-house spare. The seals around the valve cover nuts are toast. One is
> completely unusable. I jerry rig a temporary from a couple of rubber
> washers. Car started right up. No more leaking oil.
>
> After a bit of tweaking, it's running like a little champ. He is SO happy.
> We had a nice ride down to the gas station. He's gonna be stylin' all the
> way to school now. :-)
>
> I scare myself sometimes. We had almost all the requisite parts in our
> spares.
>
> It feels like we need to top up the shock absorbers. Any suggestions as to
> which oil to use? I usually put 30 wt motorcycle fork oil in my MGB shocks.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave Ambrose
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