Anyone for a "DPO Stories" thread?
If not that, write up your best DPO stories and e-mail them to me. I'll try to
put together a "DPO Stories" page to add to my web site.
Chris Kotting
ckotting@iwaynet.net
(Grateful that I don't have to deal with too much DPO stuff!)
On Wednesday, December 02, 1998 10:30 AM, Ajhsys@aol.com [SMTP:Ajhsys@aol.com]
wrote:
> As I was poking around under the bonnet, I saw another example of the DPO.
>
> First, let me say once again that the DPO is not the person I bought the car
> from. My literal PO owns a beautiful RB MGB. He bought the car from the DPO
> who is responsible for all the fun I'm having. (Thanks, Scott!)
>
> I was looking down the front of the engine and I noticed a large amount of GOO
> on the timing chain cover. It looked oily and dirty, so I picked a bit off to
> see how hard it was. As I did this, almost the whole chuck came off in one
> piece, leaving the relatively clean (slight surface rust) cover exposed.
>
> Inspection showed that it was actually Bondo that was smeared on the cover and
> left there to dry! About 1/2" thick. Does anyone want to speculate on why
> anyone would do this? Was the cover rattling and the Bondo used as a damper?
> I saw no oil leaks from the cover, but I can't imagine anyone would use Bondo
> to plug a leak.
>
> That's my fun discovery for today.
>
> Allen Hefner
> '77 Midget
> '92 Mitsubishi Expo LRV Sport
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