[now OT] Oil Leaks, was Re: I can't sleep at night...

[Cheapass Ron <rapieper@yahoo.com>]

All this talk about oil leaks makes me remember my
first car, a 1964 Triumph TR4.  It had a tractor
engine, a big four cyl with only three main bearings. 
The rear mail seal was a labyrinth type - the seal
made no physical contact with the crank, there was
kind of a thread that was supposed to pump the oil
back into the sump.  Well, when the rear main bearing
wore, the "seal" went to hell too.  The oil leaked
profusely into the bellhousing (all over the clutch),
and dripped from there onto the exhaust, and the smoke
came inside through the rotted cardboard transmission
cover (tranny access was through the inside of the
car).  I had this girlfriend in high school, about
halfway home she'd be riding with her head out the
window...never complained, though.  Went through about
a quart a day, 20 mile round trip...kept the rust at
bay though.

Ahhhh memories.

Ron

--- Brian McGarvey <brianm@zbt62.eastnet.gatech.edu>
wrote:
> On Fri, 25 May 2001, Shawn C Meze wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Thu, 24 May 2001 23:32:04 -0400 (EDT) Brian
> McGarvey
> > <brianm@zbt62.eastnet.gatech.edu> writes:
> >
> > >Well im sure that was cause you werent in the
> room much and you were
> > >busy fixing that cleanest,fastest, best looking
> scirocco in all of SD.
> > Did
> > >I mention the leakyest one too :-0 (just good fun
> shawn)
> >
> >
> > HEH!! I bet you cant leak 6 quarts of oil and
> still RACE the next
> > weekend. The whole underside of my car is now
> coated in a dirt collecting
> > film. I loaded up the car on the trailer and got a
> good view of the film
> > which hides below. GAWD I hate that! Oh well, ill
> still go up and be the
> > quickest, fastest, blah-blah Scirocco at the SF
> region Pro!
> No But I did have a different
> ($50+starter+alt+1valve+headgasket)GERMAN
> car 1976 (German ford) US Mercury Capri II that blew
> a rear main seal
>  and it took 4 quarts of oil to go 100 mi. so I
> could join the coast
> guard. I think it got mad at me cuase the
> same day I smashed it's front grill, fenders, and
> hood on a camaro rear
> bumper when my foot slipped off the clutch adn the
> centerforce that came
> in this $50.00 car  grabbed (according to
> spectators) nearly lifted the
> front end off the ground and well i was sittin at a
> trafffic light and
> pasted the camaro infront of me.
> :-)
> 
>  >
> > Shawn Méze
> > 86' Jetta GLi 8V       84' Scirocco 8V          
> 88' Corvette -SS 30-
> > 82' Scirocco GTi -FSP 54-     79' "Project FSP
> Scirocco"
> > The Fastest, Quickest, Cleanest and best looking
> Scirocco in all of San
> > Diego!
> >
>
http://www.Geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/1308/index.htm
> >
> >
>
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