[Spridgets] A series motor rebuilding books, websites or Magazine articles.

[GUY DAY]

Linda,
This may be a rather radical answer but get ANY engine, get 2 or 3 of them 
and strip them down and rebuild - doesn't have to be to running standards, 
it is just to get the feel of spanners, bolt tightness and general handling 
of mechanical lumps before you start on the 'A ' series.  These are things 
to learn on, laugh at and generally make a mess of!!
Yes, it is nice to think you can just get the bits, look at the cook book 
and re-build.  What happened the first time you tried a recipe without 
supervision?  That will be your engine.  A not too happy thing -  not what 
you intended!!!!

Get your books, get the BARRIER cream for your hands (serious) and play with 
bits that aren't going to matter.

If you are doing it under supervision it's a different thing but you'll 
still benefit from having a 'play' first.

Best of luck and well done for having a go, proud of you.

Guy R Day.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Grunthaner" <grunthaner at gmail.com>
To: "Spridget Chat Group" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 11:41 AM
Subject: [Spridgets] A series motor rebuilding books,websites or Magazine 
articles.


> List,
> I want to understand our little A series motors better so I am going 
> rebuild
> a 948 which is apart and in boxes at Franks. Now so I don't drive all of 
> you
> and Frank crazy I thought I would start with a good book, articles or
> website. I have a VW magazine article that goes step buy step to rebuild 
> an
> airhead VW motor which will get me started to understand some of the
> mechanics that I am unfamiliar with but what would be the best book to use
> for this little A motor? I have Daniel Stapletons book How to Power Tune
> Midget & Sprite for Road and Track but it doesnt show how to rebuild an 
> A
> series motor. Will the book Tuning the A-Series Engine By David
> Vizard<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr
> _1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=David%20Vizard>ha
> ve
> that info or is there another book, article or web based site I should
> use?
> Linda "motor-head wana-be"
>
>
> Books:
>
> http://spritespot.com/books.htm
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