Bruce;
I guess the old saying is true "There is nothing new under the sun."
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
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From: FastmetalBDF@aol.com [mailto:FastmetalBDF@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 10:47 AM
To: Albaugh, Neil; Jimwprice@aol.com; land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Engine assembly goo : Rough-It-Up with Down-the-Hatch !
Hey Neil ...... I first saw that 'mild abrasive into the intake trick'
done waaaay back when I was a teenaged parts cleaner & 'go-fer' for some
older friends running a roundy-round car at the local oval tracks. The
car was a Ford flathead V8 coupe, and some 'Boraxo' powdered hand soap
was actually spoon fed into the single Stromberg carb flathead as it was
at an high idle. This was in the early fifties, and the car was in the
'jalopy' division, so no multiple carburetion was allowed, as it was in
the modified class. We did it on the advice of an older, experienced
mechanic who ran his own garage in town, and it seemed to work pretty
well as the car had no oil burning problems, and was a strong runner as
long as our 'hero-driver' finished the race without some roof, or side,
on-the-asphalt time...... which was sometimes the case ! I, myself
never tried that Boraxo trick on any of my flatheads or small block
Chevies. It was great for really dirty hands, though, just like my old
favorite Lava soap .......
Bruce, digging back into the early Fifties for that recollection ~
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