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Never know what you will find in the trans tunnel!

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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...

SpriteRat.jpg


It's body measures ~ 6" not including the tail!
 

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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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Very good Lee.
 

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Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tun

likely also explains the recent power loss
 
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Re: Never know what you will find in the trans tun

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?

:rolleyes:
 

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PHerder said:
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?

:rolleyes:

Well the rat ain't moving too fast so, yeah.


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I've been missin' a number of various coloured socks recently... find any of THOSE in there, Paul? :jester:

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? :smirk:
 
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DrEntropy said:
I've been missin' a number of various coloured socks recently... find any of THOSE in there, Paul? :jester:

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? :smirk:

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... :smirk:

I don't know if the drive shaft would have even turned! A LOT of "stuff" came out of the tunnel!

:pukeface:
 

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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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:lol:

English mice....

Slotty!!!! :smirk:
 
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