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Engine pull - early version. Note dates

To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Engine pull - early version. Note dates
From: "Timothy H. Collins" <thcollin@mtu.edu>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 22:24:04 -0400
To: Guy Weller <guy@weller-lakes.freeserve.co.uk>
Subject: Re: engine pull...
From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@Exit109.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 15:54:55 -0500
CC: Bill <pythias@pacifier.com>, spridgets@autox.team.net
Organization: Positive Earth Drivers Club
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Guy Weller wrote:
 >
 > But if your name isn't Franc Clarici and you havn't pulled a spridgit
 > engine before, allow half a day, at least!

If you don't stop to gab, drink beers, look for tools, how can it take 1/2 
a day? It takes longer for the radiator to drain then it does to undo all 
the bolts. (I undo bolts while the radiator is draining, this does cut the 
time in half ;)

Lets see, 66 Sprite has 4 radiator bolts
2 rad hoses and 2 heater hoses, and 1 fuel hose, 5 hose clamps total.
4 wires on the engine (2 genny, 1 dizzy, 1 oil filter)
3 motor mount bolts, 2 mount nuts
4 tranny mount bolts, 2 slave bolts and a slave pin.
4 shifter cover screws, 3 shifter bolts
1 temp sensor, 1 oil hose, 1 speedo cabel, 1 choke cable (and I keep the 
accell cable attached, I just pop it off the gas pedal linkage)
8 bonnet bolts and 2 exhaust bolts w/nuts

So 23 bolts, 4 nuts, 4 screws (10 screws with the grille), 5 hose clamps, 1 
pipe, 1 temp sensor, 3 cables. That should only take an hour, now add a few 
minutes to pull it out, and it's done in just over an hour. But add 6 
beers, lost tools, people BS-ing with you, going by the book, and other 
unrelated intrusions, and it may take 1/2 a day.

When I'm in a hurry, I pull them out, change trannys or complete clutch and 
drive it out of the garage in just under 2 hours. But only if I have to be 
somewhere in a hurry.  ;)

Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ

Tim Collins
Midland, MI
1966 AH Sprite 




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