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Subject:Re: Secret tune-up / service item on 1.9 waterboxer engines.
From:Mike Miller
Date:Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:29:33 -0700

understandablizing I am.

On Jul 29, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:

> 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?
>>