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BillW103
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It looks like the end of the first full summer of driving my Bugeye. This is the only Sprite I have ever driven so I have nothing to compare to.
I bought a very rusty 68 Sprite parts car for the brakes and hoping for a 3.9 rear-end, all the brake components were in good shape but it had a 4.22 in it. The motor was said to have bad leaks and no good. I spent most of my budget on body, paint and interior so didn’t have any left for a motor and transmission. Before pulling the motor from the hulk I threw in a battery dumped some gas in the carbs and hit the starter and it started right up and sounded good. Wanting to drive the car I cleaned all the gunk off the motor, put new gaskets in and installed it. It runs quite well but has very low oil pressure and the synchros in the transmission are bad. All the breathers were plugged off and with them open no oil leaks.
I have come to the conclusion that you can’t enjoy the full potential of a Sprite with a bad traney. But it was worth it and I got to line out some of the bugs.
I would like to post some picture but am struggling with it. I wasn’t paying attention the numerous times it was explained how to do it.
I bought a very rusty 68 Sprite parts car for the brakes and hoping for a 3.9 rear-end, all the brake components were in good shape but it had a 4.22 in it. The motor was said to have bad leaks and no good. I spent most of my budget on body, paint and interior so didn’t have any left for a motor and transmission. Before pulling the motor from the hulk I threw in a battery dumped some gas in the carbs and hit the starter and it started right up and sounded good. Wanting to drive the car I cleaned all the gunk off the motor, put new gaskets in and installed it. It runs quite well but has very low oil pressure and the synchros in the transmission are bad. All the breathers were plugged off and with them open no oil leaks.
I have come to the conclusion that you can’t enjoy the full potential of a Sprite with a bad traney. But it was worth it and I got to line out some of the bugs.
I would like to post some picture but am struggling with it. I wasn’t paying attention the numerous times it was explained how to do it.
A good summer that no one can erase!! 
