[FC] oil
RON BLOOM
bloomaz at msn.com
Fri Feb 11 20:49:04 EST 2011
Good evening
I have a question..i just overhauled my 110 in my 62 Greenbrier.. After speaking With ken Hand I have changed oil using now 10-40 what a difference in oil temp.. I found out 20-50 tends to hold heat and the temp climbs.. I also found out useing a stright weight oil like 30 weight that it thins out and oil pressure drops.. So Ken , A big THANK YOU!!!! Anyway to my question . When I was in Palm Springs GWFBT I won a qt of Rislone eng oil Supplement with Zinc Treatment, is this something that can help my eng or is this something I should sell at my next yard sale?
Thanks in advance for the input
Ron
Tucson Az
62 Greenbrier 110 slushy
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> 1. Re: Tire Safety *rant* (Joel McGregor)
> 2. Re: Corvair Alignment (was: Tire question) (Joel McGregor)
> 3. Re: Tire Safety *rant* (Ron)
> 4. Shippers (Mike Clark)
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> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:11:07 -0600
> From: Joel McGregor <joelsplace at earthling.net>
> Subject: Re: [FC] Tire Safety *rant*
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> I always figured the safest thing to do is don't hit anything by learning how to drive and driving something that goes where you point it or modify what you have until it will. That's one of my favorite things about Corvairs - they tend to go where you point them or at least the EMs do. LMs aren't as good at that. All this front wheel drive spin about working better in ice and snow is just a lot of advertizing garbage. The only place I've noticed that a front wheel drive car works better is from a dead stop in ice. Once I'm moving give me a rear wheel drive car any day. I have a FWD car I drive most of the time because it gets 30mpg but I drive a Corvair or my '82 Malibu (with sway bars adjusted for some oversteer) when the roads are slippery. I made the mistake of driving my FWD with new tires the other day in the ice and was concerned about getting home in one piece. The Malibu came out the next day with bald tires and did much better. You can always steer a RWD ca
> r with the rear wheels but FWD stuff tends to not steer at all. I've never driven any of my FCs in ice but I'm sure they are better than any FWD car. AWD is another story but I don't have any of those.
> Joel McGregor
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> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:20:59 -0600
> From: Joel McGregor <joelsplace at earthling.net>
> Subject: Re: [FC] Corvair Alignment (was: Tire question)
> To: "corvanatics at corvair.org" <corvanatics at corvair.org>
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> Alignment is one of the easier things to do yourself and one thing that shops tend to really do a poor job with because they can get away with it or they don't know or care enough to do a good job. I used to do alignments at a shop and they didn't appreciate the amount of time I took to do it right. "It's close enough".
> Take the time to make a few tools and it's pretty easy. All you can set on a stock FC rear is the toe-in without changing spring or doing something custom. I have an old chalk board aluminum tray with two pointers bolted to it for checking toe-in. The front is a little more difficult. You can check camber with a level on the wheel and caster with a level and a block that centers between the ball joints. The computer alignment machines are just quicker not better. When I went to the Hunter alignment school I checked my '63 on one machine, drove it off and back on and got a different set of readings. I then checked it on a different machine and got a third set of readings. Manual tools will get you the same reading every time.
> Joel McGregor
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:51:21 -0800
> From: "Ron" <ronh at owt.com>
> Subject: Re: [FC] Tire Safety *rant*
> To: "Joel McGregor" <joelsplace at earthling.net>,
> <corvanatics at corvair.org>
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> My Rampside is terrible on ice, the worst car I have, The Toyota Solara is
> the best.
> RonH (Washington state)
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel McGregor" <joelsplace at earthling.net>
> To: <corvanatics at corvair.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:11 AM
> Subject: Re: [FC] Tire Safety *rant*
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> >I always figured the safest thing to do is don't hit anything by learning
> >how to drive and driving something that goes where you point it or modify
> >what you have until it will. That's one of my favorite things about
> >Corvairs - they tend to go where you point them or at least the EMs do.
> >LMs aren't as good at that. All this front wheel drive spin about working
> >better in ice and snow is just a lot of advertizing garbage. The only
> >place I've noticed that a front wheel drive car works better is from a dead
> >stop in ice. Once I'm moving give me a rear wheel drive car any day. I
> >have a FWD car I drive most of the time because it gets 30mpg but I drive a
> >Corvair or my '82 Malibu (with sway bars adjusted for some oversteer) when
> >the roads are slippery. I made the mistake of driving my FWD with new
> >tires the other day in the ice and was concerned about getting home in one
> >piece. The Malibu came out the next day with bald tires and did much
> >better. You can always steer a RWD ca
> > r with the rear wheels but FWD stuff tends to not steer at all. I've
> > never driven any of my FCs in ice but I'm sure they are better than any
> > FWD car. AWD is another story but I don't have any of those.
> > Joel McGregor
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:17:38 -0500
> From: "Mike Clark" <mclark67 at charter.net>
> Subject: [FC] Shippers
> To: "[FC] group" <corvanatics at corvair.org>
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> Good evening, group. Wondered if anyone had a good name for dependable [and cheep] outfit to move a vehicle from San Diego to Atlanta. A quick search of google gives me about a billion entries, none of them particularly helpful. Thanks much.
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> Mike Clark
> Stockbridge, Georgia
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