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
Robert Duquette wrote:
> 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 as far
> as I will get today. While I had the engine up a bit and was trying
vainly
> to pull it forward, I kept thinking "Frank says this is the easiest way,
> this is darn difficult." Then I removed the other two bolts that hold the
> gearbox mount in, and all went well.
>
> I noticed that the drained oil has an odour to it. It smells vaguely
> familiar, but I can't place it, and I don't like it. Is there a brand of
> oil that has a very pronounced smell to it? The gearbox oil smells the
same
> or worse tan the engine oil. Hmm! I really should ask the PO. Instead
of
> a lot of guessing, he most likely has the answer.
>
> Robert D.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles F. Christ <cfchrist@earthlink.net>
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
> Date: August 25, 2001 6:00 PM
> Subject: to canada and beyond!
>
> >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 the canadian border on our way to
> >robert's, and saw some incredibly bad driving along the way! we enjoyed
> >robert's hospitality friday evening and had a great diner out on his
patio.
> >robert has a nice garage with a house attached to it...lol! we left
> >robert's home friday evening around 10pm and drove near 2 hours before we
> >called it quits and found the world's worst motel! we slept there but
> >decided to not partake in the "included american breakfast". we got a
> late
> >start after finding a place for breakfast . we headed for the 1000
islands
> >bridge and got stopped by a canadian border check for drunks just before
> the
> >united states customs stop. the u.s. customs stop was pretty
> >painless....how many of you are there?, have any tobacco products?, (we
> >tried to declare the couple of flies that we got in the van along the way
> >but the border official just waved us by.). then the left front tire
> >decided it no longer wanted to go home! so it was on with the spare and
> >away we went! gas and go all the rest of the way. we are glad to be
home
> >and relieved to have gotten robert his car intact and delivered right to
> his
> >door.
> >now i need to read over 160 emails
> >
> >chuck
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