Each time I grease the front end I retorque (with weight off the
suspension) the shock bolts to 45ft/lb. Being made of Plasticene the shock
bodies can distort if they're overtightened. If I'm rallying I retorque
them at each service break. With my tacho I had the guts replaced with
proper electrics for less than the price of reconditioning the original.
Any good instrument man can do it. The only change to the wiring is that
the inductive loop is repalced by a wire from the points side of the coil.
So you're grooving on the trunnion? Perhaps in your spring platform shoes
and pipe flared trousers? Makes a change from the (non)party at Travis'.
And let me guess, with a mouse in the brakes your wagon must have a rat
motor?
Peter
and it was all going so well...
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From: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Fw: An easy one ... ?
Date: Monday, 19 April 1999 12:03
I got my signal light back. I'm not really sure what it was. But to make
it up to me, the Sprite decided to bring my tach back to life. It's all
over the place ... but it's alive !!!
To show that there was no hard feelings on my part, I installed the front
shocks that I got last fall. What a difference! And if people have
forgotten the warning that we got from someone else here about checking the
bolts that hold your shock bodies on ... 5 of the six were finger tight,
and
the sixth was close.
I wish that I had remembered about the groove in the trunnion(?) bolt.
Everything was going so well until then.
Didn't find any numbers on the shock top.
There was mention of a tach tuning tech site? If someone has the address
handy, could you send it to me?
(I got the rear brakes done on the wagon and thought that I didn't have the
right tools for the front. Just found them.) But, you're gonna love this
... I had a squeek in the front (still the wagon) and just as I was
discovering that I didn't have the right tool, I found a cooked mouse
wedged
in the caliper.
Robert Duquette
Ottawa ON Canada
http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette
RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca
'65 RHD BRG Sprite
-----Original Message-----
From: andy webster <trunkie@hotmail.com>
To: RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
Date: April 18, 1999 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: An easy one ... ?
>Robert,
>I had a similar indicator neuroses about nine months ago and from
>memory it was a bad earth that caused it.Check your wiring and
>grounding.
>andy
>
>
>>From: "Robert Duquette" <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
>>Reply-To: "Robert Duquette" <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
>>To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
>>Subject: An easy one ... ?
>>Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:48:47 -0400
>>
>>Hey!
>>
>>This should be an easy one for you guys! Signal light behaviour:
>part way
>>on my journey to the grocery store, my signal light indicator light
>(on the
>>dash), flashed once and then stopped. Looking back, I could see
>that the
>>rear signal light was flashing fast. I assumed that the front
>signal would
>>not be working, as I had seen behaviour like this with other cars
>when a
>>light was burned out. I was wrong! Both lights flash fast on the
>one side
>>and normal on the other side. (The right, is of course, right.)
>The dash
>>indicator did not burn out, as it will flash once every time I set
>the
>>signal switch. I could have sworn that I heard a noise (small
>'doing') when
>>it first happened?? (This could be a red herring, as I am not sure,
>but
>>something made me look.)
>>
>>Guesses?
>>
>>Another bit of information, probably related, but I'm not sure. I
>had taken
>>the front signal light fixtures out this spring to clean them up and
>I
>>turned one of them upside down (or right side up) so that the
>flashing light
>>would be on the outside on each side. These lights had been tested
>before
>>recently. And I had tested them yesterday and verified that they
>worked.
>>Now for the really bad memory part. Now the clear light flashes on
>that
>>side and I could have sworn that the amber light did before?!? I
>did not
>>change any wiring. It would have had to for the safety check. But
>I can't
>>say for certain what I saw yesterday ... only that it seemed
>normal. I'm
>>scaring myself.
>>
>>
>>I know I'm going to embarass myself on this one. (Oh! I did
>already?)
>>
>>Robert Duquette
>>Ottawa ON Canada
>>http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette
>>RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca
>>'65 RHD BRG Sprite
>>
>>
>
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