- 1. to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 17:58:12 -0000
- ok i'm home! we returned back in breinigsville pennsylvania at 5pm saturday afternoon. gee! we put only 881.7 miles on the van round trip. destroyed 1 tire on the van, had an interesting lay over at
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02213.html (8,320 bytes)
- 2. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 15:04:02 -0400
- That gonzo journey still amazes me. His last name is pronounced "Chrissed", BTW. ... and he can pick up the rear end of a Midget. I got the engine gearbox combo out this morning and that's probably a
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02272.html (9,749 bytes)
- 3. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 16:10:56 -0400
- You got lucky, at least those bolts can take it. Normally the forgotten connection is the clutch hose, or the reverse light wiring on the tranny, or something that gets irrevocably damaged during the
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02274.html (8,389 bytes)
- 4. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 20:50:17 -0400
- I was pretty careful with all the easily visible stuff, but I forgot about those 2 bolts underneath. My jack stands are busy, so I was reaching pretty much ) blindly under the car for the slave bolt
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02287.html (9,386 bytes)
- 5. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 18:44:34 -0700
- That smell of the oil you couldn't quite place smell like old gear oil? Mike MacLean Supercharged 60 Sprite
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02290.html (11,023 bytes)
- 6. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:45:00 -0400
- Maybe. . . . Probably. The PO says that he had never put fluid in the gearbox, because he never had to. There are issues with gear oil in the gearbox, aren't there? Robert D. --Original Message-- "Ch
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02305.html (8,939 bytes)
- 7. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 05:43:28 -0700 (PDT)
- Rear end oil is too heavy to properly lubricate deep into all of the little needle bearings. I dismantled a ribcase from my parts car that had seized. The needle bearings were toast. The oil in it w
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02308.html (8,422 bytes)
- 8. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 15:42:18 -0400
- I might be reading between the line shere, but it's worth mentioning that 80w90 gear oil and 20w50 engine oil are roughly the same viscosity despite the numbers being very far apart. Engine oil visco
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02336.html (9,001 bytes)
- 9. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:23:20 EDT
- But does this mean that the gear oil gets much thinner at hotter temperatures than the engine oil of the same viscosity? Daniel1312 << I might be reading between the line shere, but it's worth mentio
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02341.html (8,619 bytes)
- 10. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 16:42:46 -0400
- Likely no, but it might depend on a lot of things. I'll leave that for another discussion. A more or less proper statement set would be: Engine oil running in the engine is much thinner than gear oil
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02344.html (10,982 bytes)
- 11. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:13:52 -0400
- Interesting - in aviation 120 is often interchanged with 25w60 and 100 with 20w50. Mike L 60A,67E,59Bug -- Original Message -- From Trevor Boicey <tboicey at brit.ca>
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02346.html (8,946 bytes)
- 12. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:12:27 -0400
- So I take it these additives are what give gear oil it's "unique" odor that almost makes me hurl every time I smell it? Motor oil doesn't phase me. Asphalt and driveway sealer are some of the few thi
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02349.html (8,910 bytes)
- 13. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 21:12:36 -0400
- Robert, I know the guy that just doid the rebuild, I forwarded this to hoim and asked. Larry <SNIP> -- Larry Macy 78 Midget Keep your top down and your chin up. Larry B. Macy, Ph.D. macy@bblmail.psyc
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02381.html (8,989 bytes)
- 14. RE: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 18:50:02 -0700 m>
- Gear oil smells great! I love that smell. pretty distinct too. Toby That smell of the oil you couldn't quite place smell like old gear oil? Mike MacLean Supercharged 60 Sprite "Chrissed", vainly same
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02392.html (11,066 bytes)
- 15. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 22:18:33 -0400
- Jeez I just gotta start reading these things BEFORE I send them. I know I can spell, well I think I can anyway. Larry -- Larry Macy 78 Midget Keep your top down and your chin up. Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02402.html (9,159 bytes)
- 16. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 01:05:05 -0400
- It's funny you should mention. I have an old beater bike that needed a quick dab of oil on the chain, and since the gear oil containers have a nice spout, I lubed up the chain really well with gear o
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02410.html (9,445 bytes)
- 17. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:53:50 -0400
- Get much exercise that way??? :) It must be my imagination that the engine oil had that odour also, 'cause the PO says that it is GTX. Unless there is some strange ritual when rebuilding engines? Rob
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02422.html (7,703 bytes)
- 18. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:14:52 -0400
- worth mentioning that 80w90 gear oil and 20w50 engine oil are roughly the same viscosity despite the numbers being very far apart. Engine oil viscosity is measured at a hotter temperature than gear
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02423.html (8,049 bytes)
- 19. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 08:57:19 -0400
- I don't recall how recently you said the engine was rebuilt, but you may be smelling the remnants of the assembly lubricant. Lots of people use an assembly lubricant when rebuilding to provide some i
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02425.html (8,174 bytes)
- 20. Re: to canada and beyond! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:39:37 -0700
- You can probably spell ok, you just can't type :-) hoim wrote: of same Instead of
- /html/spridgets/2001-08/msg02431.html (9,307 bytes)
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