[Spridgets] Ladybug Lives

Linda Grunthaner grunthaner at gmail.com
Tue Apr 7 03:57:27 MDT 2009


Cool Frank,
If Tiffany can't get pics I'll be down over the weekend to take some for ya.
Lin

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Frank <spritenut at comcast.net> wrote:

> I spent the morning adjusting valves, the pushrod issue is solved.
> Then some life blood, oil, tranny, diff, brakes, speedo cable, etc all
> received fluids.
> I quickly learned I do not have anymore dizzy caps, but I do have 3 new
> rotors, how did this happen?
> So I popped on a known good cap with wires, checked for spark at the
> points, grabbed Tiffany
> because she wanted to fire it up and I wanted to be under the bonnet.
> All was set, I told her to turn the key and let it crank a little, if it
> backfires, stop cranking.
> I mean a 50/50 shot at the dizzy drive and I get it wrong 99% of the time.
> But not this time, the engine went crank-crank-VROOM! It fired up after
> turning over twice, oil pressure came up fast but not as fast as it fired.
> Rebuilt engine, rebuilt carbs, rebuilt dizzy and all was dead nuts perfect.
> My only adjustment was the choke fast idle screws.
> So now that the engine doesn't have to come out, I went to install the
> radiator. I promtly brike a fan blade sliding the downflow in place.
> Bummer. But I had one left in the milk crate. I cleaned it up swapped it
> out bolted in the radiator, filled it with coolant and hit the ket only to
> wipe out 2 fan blades on my last 6 blade fan!
> WTF!
> The fan is under the top tank of the rad, correct fan, correct rad, never
> recored, but the fan is into the tank.
> So after some serious head scratching, I find out the new waterpump isn't
> quite right. It bolted on, looks like an A series pump, has all the right
> hose spots but the lower silicone
> hose was extremely tight to go on. I figured it was because it was
> silicone. And I did have a hell of a time getting the pulley over the w/p
> hub.
> Good thing I had a 2nd new pump on the shelf. It fit fine, the hose fit
> fine, and now sporting a metal fan, it works fine.
> I just wonder what that pump was for? The hub was too big and longer than
> normal.
>
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> My own Fleet of Sprites
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