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Subject:Re: Secret tune-up / service item on 1.9 waterboxer engines.
From:Rocket J Squirrel
Date:Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:20:03 -0700

Oh, no -- it's important to make up new words, at least two or three a
day. And verbing counts.

--
RJS

On 07/29/2011 02:07 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
> consensusize?
>
> I thought you gave that up?
>
>
> On Jul 29, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>
>> On 07/29/2011 01:12 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:
>>> I'm a WD 40 fan.
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>
>>> Last week I accidentally drove over a spray can of it that I had
>>> left under the van. Stains the gravel well.
>>
>> It's useful tid-bits of information like this that make the cost of
>> subscribing to this list worth every penny.
>>
>> -- RJS
>>
>> PS -- I believe it was last week when Scott said something to the effect
>> that a good engine should easily create 10 psi of oil pressure per 1,000
>> rpm. THAT was in fact a very useful bit of information to me.
>>
>> -- Rocket J Squirrel, who is presently looking at the recommended oils
>> chart in his 1984's owner's manual ("Lubricants," p. 54) and wondering
>> what the right viscosity is for conditions where the nighttime lows are
>> in the mid-40's (F) and the daytime highs are in the mid-90's. SAE 20-50
>> works down to the cold end of things, but does not to up to the hot end
>> of things where the chart recommends SAE 40. And who is also fully aware
>> that this subject was just discussed to death a couple weeks ago. Did we
>> consensusize this matter already?
>