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1. Re: Side curtains (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 07:28:33 -0400; I got my side curtain seals and felts from AH Spares. ahspares@dial.pipex.com The seals are perfect. I haven't gotten around to the felts yet, but they are just strips of felt. Tom Zuchowski '61 Buge; /html/spridgets/1999-10/msg00079.html (10,441 bytes)
2. Need a clock (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 07:37:48 -0400; I want to mount a clock in an under-dash console in my Bugeye. But for "authenticity", I want a round-face clock with hands, not a digital display. Does anyone know of a source for such a clock? I ha; /html/spridgets/1999-09/msg00654.html (7,491 bytes)
3. Re: lowering kit (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 07:37:44 -0400; My Bugeye had a lowering kit on it when I bought it. I took the spacers out last month when I replaced the bushings. With the lowering kit in place, I dragged the 1275 exhaust pipe across EVERY speed; /html/spridgets/1999-09/msg00655.html (9,263 bytes)
4. Re: Mystery switch (at least to me) (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:46:45 -0400; Any amateur astronomer (such as myself - ahem) would tell you that it's not to reduce eyestrain, but to improve your eyes' dark-vision capabilities. Even a small amount of light drastically impairs n; /html/spridgets/1999-09/msg00965.html (10,035 bytes)
5. Re: Sprite hardtop from metro?? (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 18:54:59 -0400; You might want to look into the value of "a complete rolling Nash Metropolitan (no-engine)" before you start cutting it into scrap metal. That's a rare, 40-year-old antique auto you have there and it; /html/spridgets/1999-09/msg00967.html (9,642 bytes)
6. Re: Honda 2000 - Saw it last night (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:00:38 -0400; I would expect the 2000's engine to last for several hundred thousand miles. Honda has been doing high-RPM engines for just about forever. I doubt that anybody knows more about it than they do. Honda; /html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01616.html (10,288 bytes)
7. Re: MSRP (no LBC content) (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:01:56 -0400; If the Honda dealer didn't add the extra markup, it would occur in the aftermarket. For months after the New Beetle came out, there were always several classified ads in the paper for them for about; /html/spridgets/1999-09/msg01617.html (10,366 bytes)
8. Re: Wiper mtr placement (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 10:03:32 -0400; I had the same problem on my Bugeye. What I did was to flip the entire assembly over and mount the motor upside-down inside the passenger footwell. It is well out of the way of the passenger's legs,; /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01051.html (9,906 bytes)
9. Re: bleedin' brakes (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:51:49 -0400; What sizes should I order? I have disk/drum brakes from a '67 and a 1275 ribcase (I REALLY want one on the clutch!!!) Tom Zuchowski '61 Bugeye Clemmons, NC lets of a [mailto:owner-spridgets@autox.tea; /html/spridgets/1999-08/msg01522.html (10,645 bytes)
10. Re: brake press switch (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 07:42:41 -0400; My switch also leaked. I got a new switch from Moss or VB (I forget) and it is the wrong switch, way too long. I got a rebuild kit from one or the other and it is the wrong kit, with o-rings instead; /html/spridgets/1999-07/msg00185.html (8,163 bytes)
11. Re: thermostat issues (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:22:05 -0400; Is there any downside to using bolts on the thermostat housing? If and when I ever manage to break my housing loose, I might do bolts if there is no reason not to do so. Tom Zuchowski Clemmons NC is; /html/spridgets/1999-07/msg00390.html (8,769 bytes)
12. front shock oil (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:55:10 -0400; I was trying to change the oil in my front shocks, and I can't seem to get all of the air out of them. I can feel and hear bubbles when I work them. Is there a standard procedure for refilling the fr; /html/spridgets/1999-07/msg00619.html (7,251 bytes)
13. Re: Hot Foot'n (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 11:05:23 -0400; My '61 Sprite is exactly the same way. You have a couple of problems here that are actually design flaws: 1) the heater hoses are short, and will transfer a lot of heat to the core even with the valv; /html/spridgets/1999-07/msg01181.html (8,663 bytes)
14. Re: From: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net> (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 07:53:18 -0400; You might try calling Motorhead. They sell used parts for, they say, about 50% of the price of new parts. 1-800-527-3140 in Fairfax, VA. I got five used wheels for my Bugeye about 15 years ago just b; /html/spridgets/1999-07/msg01470.html (7,629 bytes)
15. Re: Calling All Midgets (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 08:00:19 -0400; I agree with you that Big Healey people are tops! The Big Healey owners in the Triad Austin-Healey Club in North Carolina are a really great bunch of people. If there is any snobbishness there, I hav; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg01025.html (11,000 bytes)
16. Cracked Timing Cover (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:47:13 -0400; Again I turn to the accumulated wisdom of the List. . . Yesterday I pulled my radiator to have it rebuilt, and I made an unhappy discovery. The front timing cover on the 1275 engine is cracked where; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg01095.html (8,477 bytes)
17. Re: Cracked Timing Cover (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:09:31 -0400; That was a GREAT bunch of advice that you all gave to me! Thanks! I'll try the JB Weld route. "Cheap and Easy" is my motto. Tom Zuchowski can welded it a; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg01199.html (11,178 bytes)
18. Re: [No LBC] Warning:- on Soapbox - Wow! 250+ e-mails. (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 08:37:51 -0400; My take on this list differs from yours a bit. It seems to me that many of the "worst offenders" for topic drift do seem to make an effort to update the topic header. It is one of the things about th; /html/spridgets/1999-06/msg01308.html (9,773 bytes)
19. Carb mismatch? (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 09:04:53 -0400; Once again, I turn to the all-knowing wisdom of the List. . . I was doing some tune-up of my 1275 yesterday. The carbs have always been a little odd, but I think they are getting worse: 1) With the i; /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg00970.html (8,351 bytes)
20. Re: Tanglewood (score: 1): Author: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>; Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 07:48:43 -0400; Heh. This Tanglewood was the country estate of the RJ Reynolds tobacco tycoon family back around the turn of the century. It's now a public park, and it is located in west-central NC, just outside of; /html/spridgets/1999-05/msg01250.html (8,558 bytes)

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