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#476516 - 07/04/08 11:49 AM
Never know what you will find in the trans tunnel!
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Registered: 12/03/06
Posts: 79
Loc: Sedgwick, Kansas, US
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My wife has has a lot more "want" to work on her 66 Sprite now that we are back from LotO. She spent the morning taking off the oil pan, oil pump and associated plumbing and scrapping gaskets on the short block. My engine builder wants the engine in short block form. He will tear it down from there. While she was busy doing that, I decided to take the "bare" tub out and pressure wash the car and to clean out the tunnel. Here is what I found along with the dirt (now mud) and other bits and pieces...  It's body measures ~ 6" not including the tail!
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66 Sprite
USAF Retired
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#476519 - 07/04/08 12:04 PM
Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tunnel!
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Great Pumpkin
Registered: 11/13/05
Posts: 17315
Loc: Niceville FL
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Hay Paul does that not suggest a name for the car. Hmmm, Old Rat? Killer? Road Kill?
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AN5L 24515, Eng. 9C-U-H 16218, Apr. 1959
"Miss Agatha" On the road again and smiling.
We were there, Lake of the Ozarks, 2008!!
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#476525 - 07/04/08 12:15 PM
Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tunnel!
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Loc: Heber Springs, Arkansas
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#476534 - 07/04/08 12:34 PM
Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tunnel!
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Great Pumpkin
Registered: 11/13/05
Posts: 17315
Loc: Niceville FL
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Very good Lee.
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Retired USAF
AN5L 24515, Eng. 9C-U-H 16218, Apr. 1959
"Miss Agatha" On the road again and smiling.
We were there, Lake of the Ozarks, 2008!!
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#476535 - 07/04/08 12:34 PM
Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tunnel!
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Jedi Knight
Registered: 01/01/07
Posts: 1119
Loc: Ottawa, Ontario
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Hmm... one way to get rid of the squeaks!
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#476547 - 07/04/08 01:17 PM
Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tun
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Obi Wan
Registered: 11/15/04
Posts: 2473
Loc: Ontario
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likely also explains the recent power loss
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Ms. Triss
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she runs, she drives! now to put her back together
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#476561 - 07/04/08 01:44 PM
Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tun
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Registered: 12/03/06
Posts: 79
Loc: Sedgwick, Kansas, US
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If a small block chevy engine is called a mouse motor and the big blocks are called rat motors... Does that mean I had a big block chevy in my Sprite? 
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#476570 - 07/04/08 02:23 PM
Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tun
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Jedi Hopeful
Registered: 04/17/08
Posts: 172
Loc: SoCal
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If a small block chevy engine is called a mouse motor and the big blocks are called rat motors... Does that mean I had a big block chevy in my Sprite? Well the rat ain't moving too fast so, yeah. 
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1968 Mercury Cougar
1958 Ford Custom 300
1970 Honda CT90
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#476633 - 07/04/08 04:35 PM
Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tun
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Jedi Knight
Registered: 01/01/07
Posts: 1119
Loc: Ottawa, Ontario
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4500 RPM for 40 minutes, or until tender.
Mmmmm, possum.
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#476645 - 07/04/08 04:58 PM
Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tun
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Registered: 12/03/06
Posts: 79
Loc: Sedgwick, Kansas, US
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I've been missin' a number of various coloured socks recently... find any of THOSE in there, Paul?  And I think we have a 'possum who's taken up residence in the "back yard" Alfa in the last week or two. He needs to be dessicated like that'n you have. Any preferred methods? Hints on techniques?  No socks (that I could find). Privious owner stored car in a grainary for ~ 20 years. Find a dry storage place, add lots of heat (100+ degrees) and wait... I don't know if the drive shaft would have even turned! A LOT of "stuff" came out of the tunnel! 
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#476664 - 07/04/08 05:41 PM
Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tun
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Registered: 12/26/06
Posts: 7
Loc: the Shenandoah Valley
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After I removed the engine and tranny from the midget, I found a large mouse nest
right underneath the hole for the gearstick. What I found interesting about the
nest was a tag on the side of it that read: Made in England.
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#476976 - 07/05/08 07:18 PM
Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tun
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