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Re: Slick 50

To: Terry and Donna Cost <tcost@vvm.com>
Subject: Re: Slick 50
From: dana nojima <noji-1@pacbell.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:18:16 -0700
Terry,

What about running non-detergent oil for a couple of oil changes? 

Dana

Terry and Donna Cost wrote:

> I put Slick 50 in the gray ghost as it's first oil after being rebuilt.  It
> has smoked from day one, and there's nothing I can do about it.  It runs
> really well, but "clears it's throat" every time I accelerate from idle.  I
> also put an electric fuel pump on it, and overwhelmed the floats on the
> Hitachis, so I got a combination of blue and black smoke out of the
> tailpipes.  I went to a lower PSI electric pump and I keep oil in the sump
> to replace the oil pulled past the rings.  I was thinking that if I replaced
> the oil with something of higher viscosity, like 200 weight gear oil, the
> gray ghost wouldn't smoke as much.  Maybe chassis grease mixed in with
> deisel fuel would do the trick.
> 
> Andy and I are going with the TDROC group to Colorado at the end of July.
> We'll trailer the gray ghost to Denver so we can have tools and tires for
> the autocross there on the 28th, then meet the TDROC on the 29th for a drive
> up Mt. Evans with those WyCROC members who can join us.  We hope to camp out
> rather than stay in motels, but we'll prepare for whatever comes our way.
> We have to be home a day or two early, so we'll head back to Denver for the
> trailer and Suburban on the 2nd or 3rd of August.  I heard there's a
> fantastic mexican food place in Denver with a cliff diver and a dancing
> gorilla.  The food is supposed to be good, also.  Let me know if you've been
> there.
> 
> Leisure Suit Terry
> 
> 

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