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RE: "oiled" and driving questions

To: "'Ray McCrary'" <spook01@mindspring.com>,
Subject: RE: "oiled" and driving questions
From: Phil Vanner <pvanner@pclink.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 16:44:28 -0600
Not at all Ray!=20
Bring on the polysyllabic blatherings, I love the thought of the masses, =
stuffing their reference CD-ROMs in to look up "inchoate" , while =
grumbling about  your acrocephalic  vocabulary.
 =20
Phil Vanner  <: -)

-----Original Message-----
From:   Ray McCrary [SMTP:spook01@mindspring.com]
Sent:   Thursday, December 04, 1997 4:29 PM
To:     Phil Vanner; Trevor Boicey; Peter Landy; mgs@autox.team.net
Subject:        RE: "oiled" and driving questions

Sorry, I will try to stick to words with fewer syl....small parts.
If I remember my high school history, Rhadamanthine was one of the =
judges
of the underworld, according to the Greeks.
If the word is on the "list o' nifty words", though, I'm sure that it =
has
fallen into disuse.
Ray

At 02:41 PM 12/4/97 -0600, Phil Vanner wrote:
>rhadamanthine - strictly and inflexibly honest and just (G)
>
>(as found on http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~baum/skb_dict.html#R (skb list =
o'
nifty words) )=20
>
>The usage may be a bit of stretch but you gotta give the guy points for
workin' it in there!
>
>|   Phil Vanner
>|   '61 Midget =20
>|      _____
>|     /_____\
>|   !o=3D=3D=3D=3D=3Do!=20
>|    U          U
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Ray McCrary [SMTP:spook01@mindspring.com]
>Sent:  Thursday, December 04, 1997 1:37 PM
>To:    Trevor Boicey; Peter Landy; mgs@autox.team.net
>Subject:       Re: "oiled" and driving questions
>
>Guys,
>Leaving your engine running while running into the store isn't likely =
to
>make your engine last any longer.
>BUT....
>Most engine wear DOES occur at startup not because the oil "runs off" =
of
>the bearings, but because without oil pressure, there is no hydrostatic
>wave to support the bearings.  As many of you know, bearing material is
>VERY heat sensitive, and if they bearings rub, they heat.
>At the risk of sounding rhadamanthine, I would forget all the wierd
>theories of why engines wear, and buy one of the small electric oil =
pumps,
>sold by stores such as Summit Racing, to pre-pressurize your oil =
system.
>No more zero OP starts=3D less wear on the engine.
>Regards,=20
>Ray    At 04:23 AM 11/29/97 -0500, Trevor Boicey wrote:
>>Peter Landy wrote:
>>> I agree that most of the wear occurs during engine startups.  During
>>> shopping or other stop'n'go errands I leave the car running
>>
>>  I don't think that makes sense.
>>
>>  The wear occurs at startup because the engine isn't
>>lubricated. All the sitting has let the oil run off the
>>cylinder walls and out of the bearings.
>>
>>  If you are only stopped for a few minutes, the oil doesn't
>>run anywhere, and the starting is not particularily harmful.
>>
>>  I'd be willing to bet that the thousands of extra revs would
>>do a lot more wear from all that needless idling.
>>
>>--=20
>>Trevor Boicey
>>Ottawa, Canada
>>tboicey@brit.ca
>>http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
>>
>
>


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