Hi Mark,
I spent a good bit of time all over Canada, working with Canadian engineers
for my US company. Good guys, loved their Mohlson and their "Blue Lights".
My garage is concrete, and hard to clean. I finally bought a big, metal
drip pan made for this purpose from Auto Zone. Works well.
I got rid of much of the leak problem with the TR3 by replacing the oil pan
gasket, and also the valve cover gasket. A recent thread here discussed
dropping the oil pan just to get out bits of metal, but mine was clean.
Just to change the old, cracked gasket was reason enough for me.
By the way, my Dad was born in London, but came here as a kid.
Regards,
Sumner
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:20:43 -0500
From: Mark Hooper <mhooper@pixelsystems.com>
Subject: RE: Reader's Digest Joke -- Sumner's Reply
Hi Sumner:
No offence taken at all. Just having fun tweaking your tail. I may have
British parents, but I am a proud Canadian. Twitting our big American
cousins is our national pastime. If we didn't razz you guys up from time to
time you'd forget we were up here.
Now start commenting on some percieved lack of Canadian high-technology and
I might well start to get testy. (grin)
As for oil, I have a gravel floor in my detached garage, right now the first
projet in the spring is to put in concrete. I have budgeted a couple of
thousand for the concrete and figure I am going to have to spend the whole
summer damming the flow from the TR6 in order to preserve the new floor.
Unfortunately the last major leaks seem to be the rear crank seal (oh no!!!)
and the big brass plug on the O/D. Worst place in the whole car. That
leather seal in the differential is not great either, however that just
leaks until the oil level goes down a bit.
Can anybody tell me if they have succeeded in backing the transmission out
enough to replace the rear crank seal without disassembling the interior of
the car too much? I finally got that all in and looking nice. Was hoping to
avoid ripping it all out again.
Cheers,
Mark
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