On Sun, 27 Apr 1997 Cancola@aol.com wrote:
> Listers,
> Yesterday I stopped in to see a fellow here in town that has five
> B roadsters sitting in his drive. I stop when I see him out working on one.
> Anyway he was telling me about some friends of his who own a 79 B and live
> out on a dirt road. Apparently they haven't lived there to long and when
> they first moved there there B was in good shape. Rust wise. This fellow
> said he saw their B not to long ago and it is completely rusting out. He
> said there was rust through where he had never seen rust B4. If you have
> read this far, here is the interesting idea he has come up with. The dirt
> road is treated with anti-dust chemicals. His research tells him that the
> chemicals used for this treatment attrack moisture to aid in dust reduction.
> In turn when the road is muddy from a rain storm, the mud flung onto the car
> contains the chemicals. If the mud is left on the car in hidden places then
> the chemicals are in there grabbing any moisture that comes along, thus
> aiding the rusting of the car. And in this case he said the car is really
> rotting away.
> Just thought I would pass this along, Any chemists out there. Is
> this possible?
I'm no chemist, but it sounds sensible to me. Certain chemicals
certainly are hygroscopic, and I would not want them on my car.
> One other question. My fellow lbcer made mention of auto trans
> B's. He said the rear end of these cars had a higher gear ratio than the
> four speeds. His theory, if this is correct, is that there would not be as
> much need for O\D trannys if the higher rear end axle were placed under a
> four speed car. Any thoughts?
Certainly a lower numerical rear axle ratio will reduce highway rpms, but
at the expense of acceleration. Even then, I would think the effect
would be most serious off the line. Once underway, you could hold each
gear longer.
Anyone seen an auto trans B?
I've seen an auto C but never an auto B.
He thought
they > were all left in the motherland.
W. R. Gibbons Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu (802) 656-8629
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