Dan Snow's Story and Pics

[greg.rocco at gmail.com (Greg Pallett)]

Man. First Mike, now you guys. Something very ominous about changing the oil 
for Cincy. When I go next year, I'll change the oil AFTER cincy.
Greg

 On 6/3/05, Calimus <calimus@techography.net> wrote: 
> 
> Ok, by now Dan Snow should be in Cincy with his Diesel converted rocco.
> However, the trip wasn't smooth. For those of you at cincy, you have
> prollie heard the tale, those of you stuck at home like me, here's the 
> deal.
> 
> Dan made it from Tampa to my house in NW Georgia in great time. He crashed
> here for the night and then in the morning we got him ready to go and ired
> up the oil burner. About the second time Dan tapped the throttle we heard
> what sounded like the exhaust rattling. He revved it a time or two more
> then got out and looked at the muffler while I stuck my hend under the 
> front
> of the car. I saw a small lake of oil underneath and we promptly shur the
> car off. After wiping down the engine bay and pusing the car back we found
> about 2 quarts of oil on my driveway and what appeared to be a blown oil
> filter gasket. Fun stuff. A tripp to Advanced Auto netted us a new filter,
> oil filter wrench (the one I had wasn't big enough) more oil and two bags 
> of
> oil dry (kitty litter).
> 
> A short time later we were all set to give it another try. Another start 
> of
> the engine a few revs and another oil shower. To shorten things up a bit,
> we basicly tightened the living shit out of the filter and ended up at a
> point where there was only a rare drip but we couldn't find where it was
> coming from. This however was good enough for Dan (after some coin tosses,
> salt over the sholder and an animal or two were sacrficed) and he headed 
> on
> for Cincy. For those interested, here is a link to the pics I took. I
> didn't get any of the raw oil spill, at that point we wern't even thinking
> about the camera.
> 
> http://www.techography.net/gallery/dsnow
> 
> However, what the breaks down to is the real reason this list is F'ing
> great. People that would have never met any other way have come together
> under a common sickness and are able to help eatchother when it counts.
> Listers helping listers is what it's all about.
> 
> Enjoy, (I know we had a lot of fun)
> William Snyder
> 
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