- 101. Emerald Sales (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:39:54 -0700
- Just received my reconditioned Sears ajustable timing light from Emerald sales. Ordered it only 4 or 5 days ago. It came in a box marked Motherboard. Instructions were included. I was looking at one
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg01388.html (7,133 bytes)
- 102. Re: Judson-Head Gaskets (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:37:34 -0700
- I'm putting a Judson on my 948 after break-in. All this talk about compression ratio has me worried. I had the head faced to retain the compression ratio and 10 thou shaved off the top of the block b
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg01408.html (8,525 bytes)
- 103. Re: Emerald Sales (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:48:58 -0700
- You're probably right. I'll drop by my friends house today and see if it reads the same as his light. Mike
- /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg01417.html (7,941 bytes)
- 104. Re: auto painting, compressors, (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 00:12:23 -0700
- You can get acrylic enamel from R&R Paint Supply in Long Beach. They specialize in British car colors. They will mix up an exact color match for you in the kind of paint you cannot get. Although acr
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00001.html (13,360 bytes)
- 105. Re: No respect for rubber (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 23:53:25 -0700
- Eared knockoffs were discontinued in the U.S. on imported cars by law. They were supposed to be dangerous to pedestrians. Shades of Ben-Hur! Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00164.html (8,757 bytes)
- 106. Re: Jensen GT (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 01:43:53 -0700
- The Italian Job is $19.95 at MiniMania and $8.99 at Amazon.com. Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00368.html (9,336 bytes)
- 107. Re: front seal on the diff. (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 21:19:50 -0700
- On the subject of the front axle seal, I had the whole rear axle powder coated with the differential installed. Because you guys were talking about changing the seal, you make me wonder if the 400 de
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00478.html (10,719 bytes)
- 108. Re: What to do first... (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 21:24:45 -0700
- Make sure you chase the threads for the mirror screws, to get the paint out, if your doing a Bugeye, before installing the windshield. Darn hard to get a tap wrench in there with that glass in the wa
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00480.html (8,986 bytes)
- 109. Re: first motion shaft bushing (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 23:06:44 -0700
- I always used a Dremel with a carbide cutter ball. Just go in and out in a straight line until you're through the bushing. Of course, stop cutting just before you cut through and a screwdriver will p
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00835.html (8,755 bytes)
- 110. Re: New Car/No LBC Content (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:16:56 -0700
- My '92 Honda Accord automatic works like the day I bought the car new 165,000 miles ago. Only time the fluid has been changed was at dealer service intervals, that is if the dealer changed all the fl
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00999.html (10,520 bytes)
- 111. Re: First Drive of '99 in '62 Sprite MKII (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:03:15 -0700
- You did all that since sept. 98? I wish I could get that much work done on my car in TWO years. Mike Maclean-60 Sprite
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01033.html (9,619 bytes)
- 112. Original Fuel Line (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 20:22:27 -0700
- Well, I had thought when I removed the old fuel line from the tank to the fuel pump when my restoration started, that I was going to make a new one. After all the old one had a hole rubbed in it by t
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01390.html (8,973 bytes)
- 113. Re: Original Fuel Line (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 14:37:16 -0700
- I actually took two days off from work, as the trains I work on make round trips. So, today was spent just fixing what i "bunged up" yesterday. The glass cutters in town all seen to get their mirror
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01426.html (10,415 bytes)
- 114. Re: Original Fuel Line (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:12:43 -0700
- As we used to say in the Air Force, "My fun meter is pegged!"
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01471.html (11,943 bytes)
- 115. Re: mirrors (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:18:37 -0700
- Other than buying a reproduction from the usual suspects ($50-55 Bucks!) go to your home center. The 12" x 12" square glass mirror wall tiles are the thinnest I could find. Only a 64th to 32nd of an
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01472.html (8,565 bytes)
- 116. Re: LONG, Update to Fulcrum Pin, '79 Midget (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 08:52:32 -0700
- As I have just recently finished rebuilding the front suspension of my Bugeye, it is still fresh in my mind about the things you are running into. I had about the same amount of play in my fulcrum p
- /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01714.html (14,803 bytes)
- 117. Re: Screen Saver (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 03 Apr 1999 22:30:12 -0800
- Downloaded it this morning, just before I went to work. Download and installation was less than 15 minutes! It IS sensational, good job. Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00146.html (8,505 bytes)
- 118. Re: Tonneau cover (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 22:56:48 -0700
- Is that tonneau cover from AH Spares held on in the rear by the two chrome escutions that normally hold the rear bar for the top. Did Bugeyes originally have a long tonneau that connected at the top
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00218.html (10,239 bytes)
- 119. Re: Cumulus Gray (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 22:59:33 -0700
- I found a spray can of paint in my local Ace hardware store that was marked "Machine Grey". It was specifically fromulated for machine shop type machines. It matched almost perfectly. It was only 5
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00219.html (8,517 bytes)
- 120. Bugeye pancake air filters (score: 1)
- Author: Mike Maclean <macleans@earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 06 Apr 1999 10:32:56 -0700
- Has anyone thought to use K&N filter oil on the original pancake type filters for the Bugeye? Seems to me that the sticky oil that K&N sells to recharge their filters would work great for the wire me
- /html/spridgets/1999-04/msg00230.html (6,719 bytes)
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