[tcb] Re: Good Morning!
- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 07:39:59 -0700 (PDT)
Cooking thermometer. Stop at Walmart or similar and buy a cooking thermomter
that is appropriate length to go in the dip stick hole to the oil. Stop when
you think it's hot, remove dip stick, replace with thermometer and read the
temp.
Lonnie Bergman <bergmanfamily@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Many years ago, I built up
a '61 with a 14hp and put a temp gauge with a dip
stick sender on it. Any time I put it on the hiway, it would peg the gauge
at 300+. After 5k mi and getting tired of seeing it pegged most of the time,
I just disconnected it. 60k miles later I pulled and sold the 1200 and put
in a 1600. I did drive the crap out of that bug.
-----Original Message-----
From: tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tcb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Brian Denning
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2007 7:12 AM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: Good Morning!
be careful out there. and you are right it's not worth the risk, if it has
been running hot at night, to drive it during the day.
>From: "Peter Albarian"
>Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [tcb] Re: Good Morning!
>Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:38:27 +0000
>
>Here I am driving south through Oklahoma on US-69 and enjoying the cool air
>flowing over my bald head. I stopped twice over night to rest; once for 30
>minutes and the other for 45. The sun is about to ring in the new day and
>I'm generally pleased with the way things are going.........but not
>completely. Two fill-ups ago, this original to the car 1200 engine seemed
>hotter than before, and it had used 1/4 quart of oil. The last fill-up it
>seemed even hotter and had used 3/4 of a quart. I decided it would be best
>to reduce my max speed to 55mph and resort to plan B. Kirk will be leaving
>my house in a few minutes with my diesel and trailer, and if things with
>the Beetle remain about the same, we'll probably connect around Waco about
>9:30. Right now we have traveled 740 miles which is probably the amount
>Caren's new toy has traveled total over the past 7ish years. My feeling is
>that as the day heats up, I'll be risking this engine and that's not worth
>my pride or McCarthy's (she's already named her).
>More later,
>Peter
>
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