<VV> The oil "sine wave" - it hertz!

[Tony Underwood]

At 03:38 hours 10/02/2006, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
>The oil discussions on Virtual Vairs are truly like sine waves, they come
>and go with disturbing regularity. Someone early-on answered it 
>best. Asking the
>  synthetic oil question lets everybody blurt out their opinion, quote their
>sources, recount their experience, make their suggestion, then go back into
>their "shell" (no pun intended). About the only thing most will agree on, is
>that the low-grade non-detergent oils are of no value - unless you want to
>shoot  it into your rocker panels to prevent rust. - (You think your 
>Corvair leaks
>  oil now? Hee Hee!) - Seth Emerson



You don't "shoot it into the rockers".


You pour it down the front air intake grill, and let it follow the 
same path the water would take, greasing the wheels of progress as it 
goes.    It eventually (most of it) drains out of the rockers just 
ahead of the rear wheels...    keep an old towel handy to wipe the 
oil from the air intake grill.

People at gas stations sometimes look at you strangely as you pour 
oil into the grill, although maybe not as intently after watching you 
pump gasoline into the front fender.    Putting oil into the air 
grill may seems logical after that.

...unless it's an older individual who pays no heed, likely having 
owned a 'Vair at one time.   But Ricer owners are a treat, since many 
of them don't have much of an attention span in the first place and 
after wondering what they're looking at, become completely distracted 
when you appear to gas up the front fender and then add motor oil to 
the windshield wipers.


...only did the oil-in-grill once at a gas station, kept a straight 
face the whole time...  with the '63 Spyder, which had a solid body 
and got its rockers oiled regularly.    The '60 4-door wouldn't 
benefit from the oil-grill trick since its rockers are porous.


At least until I weld in the NOS rockers I have for it, hanging in the shed.


tony..