face it! it could be worse. you could be at the jersey shore and just
finished getting your car ready to go sunday evening and you think "i'll
test drive it tomorrow" and go to bed and when you wake
up................all you can do is go to the garage and stare at the car
after you shovel your way to the garage! so you hook up a vent hose to the
exhaust and get out the big floor stand fan (put it in front of the car
running on high) and sit in running car thinking "varoom-varoom". waiting
for the big spring thaw! ok east coasters here we go again!
chuck.
who me? naaaaaaa, i never did that.........c. :)
----- Original Message -----
From Mike Maclean <macleans at earthlink.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 5:23 AM
Subject: It just ain't fair!
> I spent all last night and all day today working on the Bugeye.
> Adjusting the valves after re-torquing the head, replacing the Redline
> MT90 in the transmission with Catsrol 20w-50 and STP (sure quieted down
> the first motion shaft!), topping up the differential (forgot to do that
> after replacing the flange seal), making the choke cable work and
> installing the air cleaners again because the carbs are tuned now. I
> worked on the interior (still installing snaps on the floor for carpet
> and screwing on the vinyl panels) I cut slots in the Hardura boot floor
> covering for the spare tire straps, etc., etc. My back is killing me!
> About an hour ago, I took the car out on a test drive around the
> private streets here where I live and i did not get more than a couple
> hundred feet and the lights went out (night time) and the car stopped
> dead! The engine turns over so the starter is getting plenty of juice
> for the battery, but the car is dead. I checked the fuses first. I
> actually hoped it was not a fuse. That would indicate a problem
> somewhere else in the wiring. I think it is the combonation
> ignition/light switch. It is original to the car. When I was restoring
> the electrical parts, I disassembled this switch to clean the contacts
> inside and it was pretty worn, but it worked. It just seems that
> anything original to the car that I just put into service without
> replacing it with a repro or having it rebuilt has a problem like this.
> Well, maybe it's something else. I've had it for today. Tomorrow I'll
> take the ignition switch out again and check it out on the VOM.
> It just ain't fair!
> Mike MacLean-60 Sprite
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