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Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few parts

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Our 'Team Sprite' is looking for a few parts: a drivers side lower seat rail (the one that bolts to the wood, but not the adjustment side) even one we could borrow to copy, a horn, oil strainer, (2) 1 1/8" original air cleaners (we can swap a set of the later ones) and a jack. Also, we bought new 'check straps' and they are really cheap, though they would make good slingshot rubbers, does anyone make the woven canvas ones?

Brian for Team Sprite
www.teamsprite.com
 
I have a pair of orginial air cleaners 1 1/8 but they have a bit of rust. Is that OK? Think an Oil strainer, that the one inside the crank case, is also in my box of stuff.
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

Can't help, but what a cool project!

Good luck!!!
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

don't have any of what you're looking for, but best of luck with the project!
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

No parts either, but best of luck on your project.
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

Brian,

Great project first off, I wish I could give you the parts you need. I was actually looking at your page yesterday and the first thing I thought was "these guys (girls, ok) need a parts car". I've seen some bug eyes with no shell go for a couple hundred bucks, I don't know if that's in your budget or not.

Good Luck, hopefully somebody here has what you need.

Ben
 
We have used a glass beading machine with really good results on the majority of the suspension parts and running gear. The intensity can be adjusted to just what is needed to remove the rust without going too deep. Contact me at brianp@ananda.org and let me know how we can do this. Thanks,
Brian
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

Thanks, I'm having a blast. I haven't done a car for forty years, it's fun doing one right. The girls are quite remarkable.

Brian
 
Very cool. Good luck with it.
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

Hi, when we first brought the car home (good picture on the Team Sprite site of the first day) I wondered about hunting down a parts car but decided we probably wouldn't need a whole car. In the end I wish we had one, not for the few parts we were missing, but as a reference we could use as to how some things went together. The car came in boxes, and even the blow-ups in the parts books weren't always clear. We had a heck of a time just figuring out the different sized cork washers on the front wheel assemblies.
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

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In the end I wish we had one, not for the few parts we were missing, but as a reference we could use as to how some things went together. The car came in boxes, and even the blow-ups in the parts books weren't always clear. We had a heck of a time just figuring out the different sized cork washers on the front wheel assemblies.

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Brain,

That's exactly why I suggested it. In all honnesty, the books sometimes can be used as shop towels with no preceived difference. Seeing how it's done and reading how it's done are two entirly different concepts. I have both the Haynes and (can't think of the name, blue book); both of them regurarly have differing descriptions and ideas. Heck, the car itself might be the third way of doing it (which you don't have the luxury of using).

Ben /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

Great project!! but I do have one recommendation. Use later model disk brakes on this car- I have daughters of those ages and I would hate to see any of them slide through an intersection because the drum brakes weren't strong enough! It is pretty cheap insurance and not too detectable in a restoration.
Bill
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

When Bugeye brakes are properly installed and serviced they will lock up all four, I know.

Disk brakes only disapate heat when they are used hard so they don't fade as soon.

Nothing in the world wrong with Bugeye brakes on the road. New ones, not 48 year old ones and that inclueds drumbs, wheel cylinders and master cylinder.
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

Hello Bill, we decided from the beginning that the car would be as 'stock' as we could make it. That meant going backwards a bit, replace the 1098 with a 948, drop down to the 1 1/8" SU's, go back to a smoothcase gearbox, etc. It has raised some eyebrows, but it is how they voted to do it. I appreciate your concern though, if one of the girls were to wind up with the car, we might look at the question again.
 
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I am IMPRESSED!!!! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Re your seat.......give a call or mail to Tom Colby at Speedwell in San Fernando. colby@speedwellengineering(dot)com or land line 8989151 in the 818 area code. just bet he has a spare.
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

Air cleaners, and oil pickup and screen packed up. Will be in the mail tomorrow.

Enjoy
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

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.... if one of the girls were to wind up with the car...

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That was my first thought after seeing your webpage - who gets to keep it? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/driving.gif
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

I think he said it was going to be auctioned for some sort of scholarship?
 
Re: Girl's Auto shop Team Sprite looking for few p

"That was my first thought after seeing your webpage - who gets to keep it?"

When the car is finished it will go to auction, that part is already arranged. Four of the girls (and I) pitched in $500 each and bought the car in boxes. In the end the money will be split four ways (I'll take my $500 back) three of the girls will use it for college, the forth (14 years old) will save it for travel. Some of that money came from sales of a CD the girl's band sold. (www.the-fiddlesticks.com) I work one day a week for a very comfortable man who bought 500 CD's to send out with his Christmas cards (at a large discount), and that took care of part of their investment. Despite this grand project, this is a low income area, and I had stipulated that the money needed to come from the kids themselves. Oh, sorry, this is a lot more answer than you asked for. I have worked with several of these young ladies on different projects since tey were in 5th grade, and am really very proud of them (no kids of my own) and I'm afraid I do waffle on.
Brian
 
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