David,
my Sprite was much more twitchy on teh highway before I rebuilt my front
suspension. Any play there will have you go all over the road.
Mine was mainly in the lower fulcrum pins (worn out bushings in A-arm).
Ulix
On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, David Wood wrote:
> Hi All!
>
> My Frogeye likes to boot along rather well. I had thought about the 5
> spd. conversion but after what driving I had done the 4 spd with the
> 1278 (or whatever it may really be) seems to run fine. I'll get a
> better idea next summer with some more driving.
>
> What sort of scared me was how resposive the little thing was to where
> I steered it. I was in the midst of accelerating when I steered to
> avoid a rock (fair sized) in the road. It went immediately where ever I
> over corrected, nary a tire broke away. When I finally got it stopped
> and my heart started I thought to myself that that must have been the
> 'twitchiness' I had heard about with the 1/4 elliptic cars.
>
> Is this normal or a sign that maybe something else is shot. I thought
> the shocks were alright. I can drive a straight line bumpy road fine
> and the bounce test seemed alright.
>
>
> Catch you later!
>
> Fred Krampits wrote:
> >
> > Bob: I don't know how fast I was going, the tach said 5800, 4th gear of
> > a ribcase with 4.22 diff. My 1098cg wanted to go faster, my Midget's
> > suspension wanted to go faster, I just got scared.
> > --
> > Fred Krampits
> > 1963 MG Midget MK I 1098CG
> >
> > http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/9021/
>
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