...make that "0000" steel wool.
>From: Frank Clarici <spritenut@exit109.com>
>Reply-To: Frank Clarici <spritenut@exit109.com>
>To: "Michael W. Jose" <michaelwjose@hotmail.com>
>CC: spridgets@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: I Got It!
>Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 21:53:12 -0500
>
>Michael W. Jose wrote:
>
>>what order to restore?
>
>
>Mike
>
>First, fire up the engine and see what you have.
>If the hydraulics are shot (and I'm sure they are after 20 years)
>turn it off, jack up the back end, put it in 1st gear, start it up. Again
>for 2nd, 3rd, 4th. This will tell you if the tranny is good. Also
>watch the tach, oil, temp, and speedo to see if they work.
>Next, remove everything. Do the body work, paint it, replace the brake
>pipes, hoses, and cylinders. Shake out the wire harness or check it and all
>the lamps before you tear it apart. Rebuild the suspension, do a new
>interior and away you go :)
>I painted one Saturday, I already have all the suspension rebuilt and
>installed and tonight I did the master cylinder, pedal box, and front end
>of the brakes. The Harness went in Sunday but I still have to buff out the
>front half before the lamps go back.
>The key is to do something every night even if it's wrong. Just keep
>plugging away. Take a night, yank the dash, remove the gauges, clean the
>glass inside and out and steel wool the chrome, repaint the fash while it's
>empty with black wrinkle paint available at any auto parts store.
>The next night, reassamble the dash, and take apart the wiper motor to
>regrease it and clean it up. Then in a couple months, it's a new Sprite.
>--
>Frank Clarici
>Toms River, NJ
>Back up to too many sprites again.
>http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/
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