[Shotimes] RE: Making a SHO last a long time....was: Re: [Shotimes] Archives

[George Fourchy]

On Fri, 6 May 2005 11:53:05 -0400, Juillerat, Aaron J wrote:

>Is this rattle an
>I better stop driving it till I change them rattle or I should change within
>the next year type noise?

It's a "You'd better not let it sit that long without priming it before starting
with the DIS disconnected"; or, "you might consider running thicker oil until you do
swap them" noise.  Actually, it sounds like it is about 85% of the way to the point
where it would like them done now.  If it doesn't make that rattle the next day,
after sitting all night, it isn't as bad as it can get without actually being
dangerous.  If it sounds that way every morning, it's time to change them.

I've seen more than one car that was well cared for, but had noisy-at-start rod
bearings, spin a bearing.  It happened right in front of me during the SFO tour last
summer.  My good friend Anthony Northrup spun one in his blue Gen 2 at the side of
I-80 where we had stopped just to swap passengers to get through the car-pool lane
at the bay bridge.  One minute he is idling fine, the next minute his car sounded
like it was going to blow up.  

BTW...Anthony's first Gen 1, a black '90, is now my Bk Diamond....I got it from him
because he spun a bearing in it, too.  Definitely bad luck for him....he takes GOOD
care of his cars.

George