- 221. Re: Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 21:07:39 -0400
- Hello, Bill. What part of what I said is not true? Sounds like you put your cars to bed for the winter. I drive mine year round, and it is my primary transportation. So State Farm charges you "only"
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00393.html (11,927 bytes)
- 222. Re: Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:08:07 -0400
- Hi, Bill. Your statement made me curious about whether things had changed with State Farm, so I went to see my agent today. She confirmed that in North Carolina, the "Friend to Insurance" state, you
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00439.html (12,090 bytes)
- 223. Re: Wiring (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 20:50:48 -0400
- Hi, Bill! I just checked my '73, which has the original harness in it. On the right side of the trunk, there are two red wires that come out of the harness in front of the right tail light and go int
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00455.html (11,126 bytes)
- 224. Re: Termperature gauge (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 21:22:27 -0400
- Bad news, Bill. The water temp sensor capillary tube on your gauge has been broken or cut off. Replacement is a job for the professionals, since there is a liquid in the tube when it is intact -- it
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00458.html (9,601 bytes)
- 225. Re: Re: Insurance (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:51:40 -0400
- NC does not require that a car be "registered" as off the road. A car in storage or otherwise not being driven may have its registration cancelled just by turning in the license plates, and no fee f
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00505.html (9,997 bytes)
- 226. Re: Brake caliper repair kit (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:59:34 -0400
- No problems here, either. I did not use any special tools. Steve Byers Havelock, NC USA '73 Midget GAN5UD126009G "OO NINE" "It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool than to speak, and rem
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00509.html (8,622 bytes)
- 227. Re: top & tonneau (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 22:11:28 -0400
- I may be the top elf for the person with the right car. I have a brand new Spridget top that is too small to fit my '73 Midget. For sale. Cheap. Anyone who is interested may e-mail me off-line for mo
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00696.html (7,570 bytes)
- 228. Re: Fram Oil Filter (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 21:37:12 -0400
- I have to speak up for OO NINE here -- he doesn't leak. His 1275 had been rebuilt sometime before I got the car by someone who really knew what he was doing. I have had the car since 1987, and it ha
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00724.html (8,264 bytes)
- 229. Re: Question about reversing lights (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 18:16:58 -0400
- The only thing between the fuse box and the reversing lights is a couple of bullet wire connectors and the reverse switch mounted on the gearbox, so there isn't much to fail by shorting except the w
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00741.html (10,395 bytes)
- 230. Re: Soft top header rail installation (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 20:49:48 -0400
- If the rivets are too long, then it takes a lot of pumping of the gun before the rivet stem breaks. The rivet length should be about an eighth of an inch (or a little longer) than the thickness of t
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00749.html (8,926 bytes)
- 231. Re: window wiper strips (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 23:51:26 -0400
- I struggled with these clips for a long time before wising up and making a tool. I used a thin piece of sheet steel about two inches wide. Bend the thing into an "S" shape (when looking at it edge o
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00788.html (8,743 bytes)
- 232. Re: Rubber (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 14:39:36 -0400
- I have to agree with Ulix about the quarterlight to body seal. I installed a brand new set in October of '96. Both of them have already started to develop "age" cracks along the edge,one of them quit
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00797.html (8,795 bytes)
- 233. Re: Exhaust Problems (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 22:57:41 -0400
- Philip, we'll know more when you inspect your system more closely, but my '73 Midget has the single muffler like you describe, and the system I bought came with the triangular flange to mate with the
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00821.html (9,175 bytes)
- 234. Re: Solenoid Hookups (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 20:46:55 -0400
- Hi, Daryl! You are correct. Steve Byers Havelock, NC USA '73 Midget GAN5UD126009G "OO NINE" "It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool than to speak, and remove all doubt" -- Mark Twain --
- /html/spridgets/1998-04/msg00909.html (8,225 bytes)
- 235. Re: a few misc. questions (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 22:30:46 -0500
- The headrests are retained in the seatback by a flat piece of metal at the bottom of the headrest support. This piece of metal is a flat spring that is cut at an angle on one end, which sticks out on
- /html/spridgets/1998-03/msg00348.html (9,250 bytes)
- 236. Midget clutch slave cylinder (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 08:57:45 -0500
- There is always the possibility that if Joe rebuilt his clutch slave cylinder he also put in a new pushrod. I and others have had the experience of ordering a new pushrod from the Moss catalog, for i
- /html/spridgets/1998-03/msg00367.html (8,447 bytes)
- 237. Re: trans drain plug tool (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 18:40:26 -0500
- Love it, Crash, heheheh. I stick one of those little round magnets (like the ones on the back of refrigerator doohickeys) inside the socket, and that does it for me. Steve Byers Havelock, NC USA '73
- /html/spridgets/1998-03/msg00372.html (9,184 bytes)
- 238. Re: Midget clutch slave cylinder (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 12:25:58 -0500
- May be. The gearbox and 1275 engine that were in the car when I bought it were the originals, according to the BMIHT certificate. The pushrod that was in the slave cylinder when I bought the car had
- /html/spridgets/1998-03/msg00373.html (8,716 bytes)
- 239. Re: Beautiful day to have a new Midget (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:20:45 -0500
- Hi, Nory! Must have been nice all along the east coast this weekend. I drove my Midget from Havelock to Annapolis, MD and back, with some side trips around the beautiful backroads of Virginia -- 1000
- /html/spridgets/1998-03/msg00544.html (9,755 bytes)
- 240. Re: [Healeys]--LBC rust techniques (score: 1)
- Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
- Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 19:54:52 -0500
- No pre-treatment with a metal prep solution is required for Corroless, but the less rust you start with before painting, the longer it will stay that way. The metal prep solution will continue to rem
- /html/spridgets/1998-03/msg00641.html (9,979 bytes)
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