[Spridgets] Why Is It?

WFO Herb froggi60 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 30 16:56:49 MST 2010


Luck of the Irish!  (you are Irish, right?!?)
Herb



On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Frank <spritenut at comcast.net> wrote:

> Every time I put a dizzy drive in, I get it 180 out?
> And since I get it wrong 100% of the time with only a 50/50 chance, this
> time I took my time, went by the book
> And after carefully studying the dizzy drive for the larger or smaller
> offset by about 1 mm, I put it in and followed the book.
> Well I just went to fire up my Sprite after the rebuild and paint and it
> was 180 out.
> You can tell right away by the big POP when it starts to spin over.
> So I fixed it and the new engine sounds great.
> Open headers as of now and some major wiring still needs to be finished but
> it runs with 70 psi of oil pressure.
> I'm happy, the paint came out great (finally) and now the engine sounds
> sweet too.
> Just some wiring and an interior to finish up along with a cooling system,
> some lamps, seats, etc and I'll have my Sprite back.
>
> --
> Frank Clarici
> Toms River, NJ
> My own Fleet of Sprites


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