80W-90 tastes bad

Mental note: fill tranny with fluid AFTER mounting it to car!!

oooooo bugger! :p :hehehe:

by a curious coincidence,strawberries and whipped cream provide no protection whatsoever for your transmission!;)

Strangely enough, I got a whiff of that stuff today after it spent 120,000 miles in my tranny...whoa, talk about light headed...I couldn't even SEE the ground for 20 minutes.

Originally posted by Dustin_S
Strangely enough, I got a whiff of that stuff today after it spent 120,000 miles in my tranny...whoa, talk about light headed...I couldn't even SEE the ground for 20 minutes.

you should perhaps bottle it and sell it to winos:bandit:

at least you didnt taste it. or was covered in in from head to toe.

in other news, my car is back together in one piece!! YAY! it mooooooves! and fast too!:D

Yucko! I can do without that flavor - thank you very much.

Good to hear your car is back up and running.

[note.to.self]scratch 80w90 slurpee idea[/note.to.self]

Pics of your car? :D

Originally posted by Steel
Mental note: fill tranny with fluid AFTER mounting it to car!!


:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: HAHA!


but remember to file it under "always drian oil before removing drive shafts" :o :o
And "let car cool before lossening radiator hoses" :o :o


But one of the funniest things Iv ever done was squirt someone with oil from the Torque tube in the back suspension of a Rover P6.
He asked if it was full of oil, and I said, look, the two ends lide together and you can hear the oil squelch inside. Unforunalty when I demonstrated the oil blew out past a seal and sprayed all over his nice white business shirt! :D :D

So we had to replace the diff in the race car. Had it on the axle stands, undid all the bolts from the rear universal, undid the rear axles (it has a De Dion rear end), undid the mounting bolts onto the spaceframe. Spent 3/4 of an hour wiggling it around with someone else trying to get it free - all the while losing more and more skin off my knuckles.

Figured that the rear universal wasn't coming free - had someone take to it with a rubber mallet.

Had a smoko break and decided to call it a day. While I waited for the other two to come back to help tidy up I climbed underneath the friggin' thing and gave it one last heave.

Pulled the diff right out of the spaceframe but the rear universal hadn't let go... my hernia-inducing effort had managed to pull the drive shaft clear out of the spline at the back of the gearbox.

So I ended up with the combined weight of the diff and the driveshaft while trying to bench press them off myself under the car... which predictably didn't last too long...

Fortunately, the diff missed my head and popped two ribs instead.

After we lifted the diff and drive shaft off my chest and visited the local accident centre for some x-rays and anti-inflammatories we bashed the
friggin thing with a rubber mallet to get the driveshaft off the diff.

Nope, no luck. So we finished tidying up and as we went to leave some tripped over the thing which was propped up next to the door. Clang...
the bloody shaft popped off the diff...

typical:rolleyes:

ooooppsss :D

It's almost as bad as the time I got really smashed on the closing Friday night of my local, went home with some girl, spent half an hour throwing up in her loo... woke up in the morning... hitched back to the workshop where I left the car and was supposed to give two girls a lift to Whangarei for a race meeting.

After taking one look at me - they decided to throw me in the back of one chick's Nissan Patrol (she was into horse-riding and had a Patrol to tow her horse trailer) and gave me the lift to Whangarei. We stopped at every gas station from Auckland to Whangarei for Powerade and I spent most of the trip with my head out the window.

When we arrived the girls went to get me another bottle of water and something to eat.

The bloody race car had run over something in first practice and just arrived in the pits. So I climbed under the car with a rubber mallet to
try to panel beat the undertray... Do you have any idea how loud a
flat aluminium floor is when you hit it with a rubber mallet?

Ouch....

:wtf:

Originally posted by replicant_008
Do you have any idea how loud a
flat aluminium floor is when you hit it with a rubber mallet?

Ouch....



Its the kind of noise that reverberates to the very base of your existance!
But its not quite as bad as when your working on the underside of a rally car that has only recently returned from a rather muddy event, and having being put away at 1am not propely cleaned, and since the event was so muddy now has several large dents in the frount that some one is attempting to straighten with a 10lb sledge.
Now what happens when you hit a 700kg Mk1 Escort with a 10lb sledge; the damn thing shakes itself like a dog, with me lying underneath. I went under a short white boy, and come out looking very brown! :mad:


So replicant_008 what's the race car? If its got a De Dion rear end Im thinking either a P6 rover, (in which case it sounds like one of Mel Clarks creations) or its a Frazer, or similar clubman.

It's a Fraser... with a 3SGTTE. The engine was orignally out of a TTE Celica rally car.

Incidentally, we cooked the head gasket that day so we had to change it that night. At 2am when we were torquing up the head bolts, a couple twisted - and we had no spares. While we all stopped to have a think - I suggested two options:

a) Ring the Toyota Dealer at home
b) Take the head bolts out of Fred's GT-Four outside

Fortunately for Fred the Toyota dealer was very obliging - I think it had something to do with the fact his dealership was at the corner to the main straight of the street race.

I think we got home after running the engine along some roads out the back of the town at 4am...

It was all for nought as the race was a complete shambles. We got called onto the dummy grid and instructed to strap all the drivers in - we then waited for 40 mins in blazing sunshine - which did nothing for anyone's good temprament.

There were 4 restarts due to crashes and we ended up overheating from sitting on the grid waiting for the track to be cleared. I think the 8 lap race took 45 mins to complete from the first green flag...