[Fot] My favorite memory of Jack...

[Larry Young]

Bill, that is what Paul Harvey would call "the rest of the story".  I 
lost track of what Jack did after his car was pronounced done for the 
weekend.  I knew he spent a lot of time working on the Tornado and that 
the spare head went from Jack's engine to yours.  I didn't realize it 
was another liner problem. He was probably spent by the time it got to 
our all night marathon.  I forgot to mention that my son, Tom, was 
working all night too.  I let him work underneath the car, so the oil 
could drip in his face rather than mine. I didn't have a spare oil 
filter, so we had milky oil on Sunday morning too.  We ran it anyway.  
All the water vaporized off during the first race, and the oil was clean 
after that.
Larry

BillDentin at aol.com wrote:
> I could be wrong, but Larry might not be remembering that Hallett 
> story 100% correctly.  In fact, I think Jack was working on our 
> Thunder Bolt (not his car, and it certainly was not his mistake).  The 
> two and three liners were in wrong.  J K Jackson pointed it out, and 
> Jack Drews led an effort to make 'at track' corrections.  It was an 
> ill-advised, albeit enthusiastic effort, (the figure eight gaskets got 
> compromised).  Kas couldn't bear to watch, and left the area with a 
> grin on his face.  We had a ton of kibitzers, and Jack was getting far 
> more help and advise than he needed.  I've got some great pictures of 
> Jack working to first get the liners out (enough to turn them), and 
> then to get them back in.  We were using a really big hammer.  Can't 
> remember why we needed Larry's head, but we did, and I returned it to 
> Jack after I got back home.  We actually got the car running, but the 
> oil looked like a light chocolate milk shake.  We had plans to change 
> the oil and run it a BARBER the following week end, but decided that 
> was a bad idea.
>
> Bill Dentinger
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