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141. Re: Musings (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:58:47 GMT; If you want an engine puller and you have something strong to hang it from, a block and tackle can't be beat. Wouldn't part with mine for quids. Andy; /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01519.html (9,597 bytes)
142. Re: Smoke ! (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 14:48:18 GMT; My 'new' engine blew smoke for about 10 miles. It wasn't new but it was better thn the old which blew clouds of oilsmoke. It was burning the oil residue inside the headers and then cleared up. Andy; /html/spridgets/1999-07/msg00479.html (8,113 bytes)
143. Re: 1275 Tech. Question (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 08:00:51 GMT; I love that sound! I wish mine made it. I always thought it was something to do with having a hot(ter) camshaft with lots of valve overlap, but that was just an assumption. Andy; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00001.html (9,077 bytes)
144. Re: Waxoyl (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 08:26:37 GMT; If the name "waxoyl" is indicative of the content then use liquid hydrocarbon i.e paint thinners rather than alcohol. non-polar compounds are more slouble in non-polar solvents. (i,e why oil & water; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00002.html (8,737 bytes)
145. Re: HELP with rings etc. 1275 midget (and a new car!) (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 14:07:28 GMT; a bit of combustion chamber grinding ala Vizard would be able to compensate for the raised CR of the flat-tops with a larger chamber volume would it not? DV does mention the 'oil ring under gudgeon; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00010.html (8,921 bytes)
146. Re: A Hello, and some ???s (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 08:10:20 GMT; Hi stu, I cant answer the $$Q's but if the engine ran when it went into hibernation then it should still. A few years back I bought a morris minor that had spent 15 years or so in the garage. Took ab; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00080.html (10,566 bytes)
147. Re: PCV needed? (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 15:31:02 GMT; I have a 63 mkII sprite with no pollution crud and, what I believe to be, its original pcv system intact. It consists of a stiff hose coming 6 inches vertically up from the centre of the intake manif; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00096.html (10,513 bytes)
148. Re: PCV needed? (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:23:34 GMT; My brother tells me that pcv, i.e sucking the crankcase vapours through the combustion chambers lowers the octane of the charge burnt...I don't know how true this is, I use my pcv, It's just that you; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00106.html (11,521 bytes)
149. Re: Church key (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:36:35 GMT; In the last few years almost every australian beer,(which we all know are the best, after all we got the idea of putting it in the FRIDGE first!), have gone twist top. I firmly believe this is a plot; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00107.html (9,399 bytes)
150. Re: Church key (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:49:08 GMT; interesting trivia.. A few years ago the Hahn brewing company in aust put a pretty lousy beer in cans and labelled it "DUFF" for a short while until the FOX lawyers arrived and threatened action. A 6; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00109.html (8,876 bytes)
151. Re: Church key (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 16:55:03 GMT; I liked "PABST blue ribbon" when I found it in china, of all places, but that was probably coz I could pretend to be "Frank" out of "Blue Velvet"! Andy Incidentally, my 'church key' is a pressed meta; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00111.html (9,226 bytes)
152. Re: oil addatives (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 17:05:35 GMT; I had a valiant once , no twice, but this particular one had the 225c.i. slant six engine (which I read somewhere was the most produced engine ever).One day a cop gave me a canary ( unroadworthiness; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00113.html (11,090 bytes)
153. Re: PCV needed? (score: 1): Author: Andy Webster <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 01:38:55 GMT; I know that it's not the original motor. as the engine # 10CCDAHxxxxx preferable to the 10CG though, did the later 1100's have the pcv that I described? Andy; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00165.html (9,259 bytes)
154. flares (not bellbottoms!) (score: 1): Author: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 11:06:54 GMT; Hi list, I'm wondering if anyone has flared the wheel arch on their front guards/fenders by bending the inward facing 'flange'(for want of a better,..word y'know the bit that rubs if you have wide wh; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00253.html (7,936 bytes)
155. Re: oil addatives (score: 1): Author: Andy Webster <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 02:51:31 GMT; There are taxis here in melbourne (OZ not FL) taking part in an experiment to test the performance of a new type of oil filter. Many have done 250,000km (150,000miles) without an oil change and the o; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00263.html (12,683 bytes)
156. Re: oil filter (score: 1): Author: Andy Webster <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 03:05:25 GMT; I'm keen to do this too. My brrother has alrready but he says his one offers little advantage. I tink his is off a later mini. Is the m*ss one any good? from memory it mounts on an angle..? Andy; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00265.html (8,016 bytes)
157. Re: rack (score: 1): Author: Andy Webster <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 02:20:53 GMT; Saw yesterday at the Vic Market in downtown Melbourne a handy oil gun. It was basically a 1pint syringe with a hose on the end. Looked just the trick for filling /emptying diffs, gearboxes, steering; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00330.html (9,059 bytes)
158. Re: Sprite Engine Questions. (score: 1): Author: Andy Webster <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 04:41:28 GMT; The 'U' as I figure, denotes a smoothcase box, and the 'DA' a close ratio ribcase box. Andy; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00399.html (10,430 bytes)
159. Re: Need Pumpkin (and it ain't Holloween) (score: 1): Author: Andy Webster <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 05:29:08 GMT; Does the entire rea end differ between wire / steel wheeled cars? I thought it was just the half shafts and wheel assemblies that were different..? Also..is the rear end exclusive to spridgets, or i; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00401.html (9,396 bytes)
160. MGF's (score: 1): Author: Andy Webster <trunkie@hotmail.com>; Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 17:08:08 GMT; Why can't you get MGF's in the US?; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg00418.html (7,331 bytes)

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