So are you frozen yet or did you spring for a top. I heard on the news some
of you folks saw wind chills (please don't start that one up again) down
around 100 below. Are they for real?!?!
Larry Macy wrote:
> Don't know if you can find one, but I have a magentic heater (Yes Ron it
> uses conduction heating not magnetic heating). It is basically a magnet
> with a built-in electric heater - about the size of a small brick. I pop
> it on the oil pan before I head for dream land and in the AM the Midget
> starts right up. Unlike Monday AM when I did not use the heater and the
> Midget would not start.
>
> Larry
>
> At this exact moment in time 1/18/00 11:14 PM, spritenut@Exit109.com made
> the profound statement:
>
> >It's been 10 degrees or less the past few mornings here in Joisey.
> >Both of my Sprites start but they don't have too.
> >My daughters A40 (RW drive 1275) just will not start when it's this
> >cold.
> >She uses it to get to school and it's her only car.
> >After a new battery, tune up, and timing set, it still will not fire up.
> >It cranks fine, but after 20 minutes or so, the battery is weak.
> >It wants to start but just will not.
> >This morning at 6:30 I had to jump start it from a Sprite. (just because
> >it was parked next to a Sprite in the driveway)
> >It has a 1.75 SU on it. It needs more choke but this is not adjustable
> >on the 1.75, at least not that I know of.
> >Short of starting fluid, does anybody have any ideas?
> >The only thing on the ignition system that has not been changed is the
> >coil and it was new a couple years back. Of course it's a Lucas.
> >
> >Would a hotter plug help out?
> >Maybe the Weber should go back on it?
> >She wants to sell it or trade it for a modern jellybean or sport ute.
> >HELP!!!!!!
> >
> >--
> >Frank Clarici
> >Toms River, NJ
> >Too many Sprites (again)
> >There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."
> >http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut
>
> Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
> macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
> System Administrator/Manager
> Neuropsychiatry Section
> Department of Psychiatry
> University of Pennsylvania
> 3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
>
> Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a
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