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Re: Oil/Temp Combination Gauge

To: b-evans@earthlink.net
Subject: Re: Oil/Temp Combination Gauge
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 20:54:36 -0500
Cc: Spridgets@autox.team.net, midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com, bugeye@yahoogroups.com, Austin_Healey_Sprite@yahoo.groups.com
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b-evans@earthlink.net wrote:

> The capillary tube and the gauge are just fine.  However, the retaining 
> screw that screws into the radiator has long ago seized 

Liquid wrench, heat but not too much, heat the nut not the tube.
Cut a slot in a 5/8" box wrench (a cheap one) the slot must fit over the 
cap tube. Use the box end.
If that doesn't work, learn some new curse words and scream them at the 
nut, scare it loose ;)


-- 
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ




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