<VV> 1" diameter dip stick tube (HUMOR)

[Ron F Hinz]

Very low class.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Underwood" <tonyu@roava.net>
To: <virtualvairs@corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: <VV> 1" diameter dip stick tube (HUMOR)


> At 07:44 hours 07/20/2004 -0500, Stephen Upham wrote:
> >I'm almost afraid to start this but...
> >
> >Two men are peeing from a bridge.
> >The first man says, "Man, is that water cold."
> >The second says, "Yeah, and deep, too."
>
>
> This reminds me of a joke about a "contest" and an approaching street
> car...
>
>
>
> There weren't any Corvairs in it though.     Still, kinda funny in a low
> class morbidly crude sort of way.    Complete text available upon
request...
>
>
>
>
>
> Corvair content?    There is no transaxle dipstick tube on a '62 Monza
> ragtop, 1" or otherwise.  I wish there was, since I now have to get under
> the '62 convertible into which we just put an engine, in order to see
> what's in the transaxle seeing as how this car has been in storage for
> decades and when the engine is finally started it will be the first time
> the car has moved under its own power since the early-mid '70s.    It
still
> bears the remnants of the last inspection sticker, dated 1971.
>
> I wonder what the gear lube looks like...    I bet it's the same stuff
that
> the line workers poured into the car at Willow Run.
>
> Hell, for that matter, how many Vairs are still running around with their
> original factory supplied gear lube?    I've never put any in my '60
4-door
> and I've had the car for over 20 years and the filler plug didn't look as
> if it had ever been touched when I first checked the differential gear oil
> level a decade or so ago, still no leaks.
>
> Can't say that about the transmission...  A little ATF gets fed to it on a
> fairly regular basis, a little weeps out the converter seal now and then,
> and the pan gasket stays moist... and the shift cable wants to drip a drop
> or two on occasion... just enough to remind me where I parked it
previously
> but not quite enough to justify yanking it apart to replace the converter
> seal and pan gasket and shift cable o-ring etc.
>
>
> tony..     fears no streetcars
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