Search String: Display: Description: Sort:

Results:

References: [ +from:byers@cconnect.net: 284 ]

Total 284 documents matching your query.

61. Re: electrical stuff (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:39:15 -0400
1) What's "quickly"? The Lucas distributor in my '73 Midget was in the car when I rescued it from death in 1987. Since then, it has done 40,000 miles and exhibits nary a wobble in the shaft. Occasio
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00643.html (9,491 bytes)

62. Re: Front Wheel Bearings... Explanation. (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:18:56 -0400
IMHO, the stock ball bearings and spacer arrangement are perfectly adequate for normal driving. For performance driving, I don't know because I don't have any experience with that, but I would expec
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00653.html (8,883 bytes)

63. Re: Sprites in movies (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 19:45:52 -0400
"Mannix was a different actor (who's name I forget" Mike Connors. Glad to help. Steve Byers Havelock, NC USA '73 Midget GAN5UD126009G "OO NINE" "It is better to remain silent, and be thought a fool t
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00654.html (8,815 bytes)

64. Re: Front Wheel Bearings... Explanation. (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 16:14:29 -0400
Thanks for your input, Mike. And I apologize for calling you Mark, and mispelling your last name. As an OF, I am lucky I remember my own name anymore. Steve Byers Havelock, NC USA --
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00702.html (11,475 bytes)

65. Re: speaking of fuel.... (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 21:26:25 -0400
That must rub off on civilians working for the Navy, too. I can't remember the last time I washed my coffee cup. My theory is that the cake on the inside of the cup is sort of like the cake in a pipe
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00717.html (9,234 bytes)

66. Tanglewood (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 23:19:57 -0400
This Steve will be at Tanglewood. I have to use Saturday to get there, so no rally. Hope to see some Spridgeteers there on Sunday. Steve Byers Havelock, NC USA '73 Midget GAN5UD126009G -- <spridgets@
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01095.html (7,760 bytes)

67. Re: BCW Sightings (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 09:42:41 -0400
As a closet Miata owner, I feel the need to chip in here, speaking only for myself, of course. The top stays down all the time on my Healey 3000s and on my '73 Midget. But they get to live in the gar
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01629.html (10,211 bytes)

68. Re: BCW Sightings (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 18:30:32 -0400
It's all relative. my Midget is easier to latch than the Healey, but it's necessary with both cars to use some muscle to put the latches in place. With the Miata, you just push a button on the latch
/html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01655.html (8,460 bytes)

69. Re: Screen Saver (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 18:43:52 -0500
Amy, your screen saver is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!! Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!!!! Steve Byers Havelock, NC '73 Midget GAN5UD126009G "OO NINE" "It is better to remain silent, and be thought a
/html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00122.html (8,489 bytes)

70. State Mottos. Tiny bit of LBC (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 10:50:13 -0400
New state mottos for the millenium. Should be something here to annoy most Alabama: At Least We're not Mississippi Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can't be Wrong! Arizona: But It's a Dry Heat Arkansas: Litter
/html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00945.html (9,415 bytes)

71. Re: Turn signals kaput! (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 23:00:28 -0400
Whenever my signals quit working, it's usually the bad connections in the HAZARD switch on the console. Cycling the switch on and off a couple of times usually makes the turn signals work until the
/html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01171.html (8,472 bytes)

72. The Gathering (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:30:18 -0400
Is anyone on the lists going to The Gathering in Winston-Salem, NC this weekend? For those who don't know, it's a British car meet at Reynolda House (ex-R.J. Reynolds estate) sponsored by the Vintage
/html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01233.html (7,829 bytes)

73. Re: Inquiring Minds Want To Know (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 18:42:20 -0400
I rebuilt my Midget from the ground up (except for the engine, which didn't need it), and it's completely stock. Since finishing the restoration in October, 1996, I have put on 18,000 miles with no p
/html/spridgets/1999-04/msg01669.html (9,792 bytes)

74. Re: Midget VIN (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:44:38 -0500
Frank has it all except the C, which is the code for the manufacturing year. My '73 Midget has a "D" in this position (manufactured October, 1972; '74s are "E", etc). I guess the catalogs ignore the
/html/spridgets/1999-03/msg00033.html (9,025 bytes)

75. Re: Midget VIN (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 21:24:22 -0500
The "H" in HAN.... stands for Healey, just as the "G" in GAN..... stands for MG. BMC started using the "G" at the end (for the Abingdon plant) sometime in the late '60s. The BJ8 Big Healeys got invol
/html/spridgets/1999-03/msg00035.html (8,385 bytes)

76. Midget sighting (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 21:51:54 -0500
Anybody recognize this car: '72 Midget, BRG, Virginia plates ACX-8843? It passed me on I-95 in southern Virginia this afternoon. It was all I could do to stay with him, since he was cruising at 80 o
/html/spridgets/1999-03/msg00307.html (7,565 bytes)

77. Re: Baking enamel....... (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:14:59 -0500
I have baked many parts using only Plastikote engine enamel without any primer at all, and never had a failure of the finish. It is important to completely degrease the parts, of course, and I usual
/html/spridgets/1999-03/msg00352.html (9,415 bytes)

78. Re: welding (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:57:21 -0500
Gas welding is not difficult to learn -- it just takes some practice to become good at it. That's pretty much true for all welding techniques. You could take a welding course at a local community co
/html/spridgets/1999-03/msg00715.html (9,080 bytes)

79. Midget paint code (was Sprite colors) (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:45:50 -0500
There is no code on the body or anywhere else on the car that tells you the paint color. The BMIHT certificate will tell you its original color, and you can go from there. Steve Byers Havelock, NC U
/html/spridgets/1999-03/msg00719.html (7,542 bytes)

80. Re: Hood Cable removal?? (score: 1)
Author: "Steve Byers" <byers@cconnect.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:15:30 -0500
I read some of the responses before I got to your original question, and I was going to suggest that you can rig up a bonnet release to come out in the left front wheelwell and avoid having to repla
/html/spridgets/1999-03/msg00812.html (9,515 bytes)


This search system is powered by Namazu