On 12/21/2017 9:33 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 4:08:20 PM UTC-10, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
>> In article >,
>> dsi1 <wrote:
>>
>>> Cars were certainly goofy back then. I used to have a 65 Nova back in the
>>> day. Coasting down the mountain would cause oil to pool up inside the
>>> cylinders.
>>
>> You needed a ring job and possibly a bore job. Sounds dirty, doesn't it?
>>
>>> Accelerating at the bottom would cause a trail of blue smoke to
>>> mark our path for about a mile. It was okay to do stuff like that back in the
>>> early 70's. Going up the mountain, I had to worry about the radiator losing
>>> all its water.
>>
>> You should have, at the very least, poured condensed milk into the
>> radiator to seal the leak. You probably needed belts and hoses too!
>> What kind of mechanic were you?
>>
>> leo
>
> The car had a ring job soon as we got it. I think that mechanic was not a reliable person. Perhaps he cheated us. I've never heard of milk in the radiator. Thanks for the info. I'll remember to avoid anybody that does that. I'm a fan of Alumaseal, myself.
>
> I was just a kid when we had that car. These days I'm older and wiser. Unfortunately, I'm starting to lose my facilities. I was doing a brake job on my son's car last week and could not remember where to attach one end of a spring. Looks like it's the end for me. That's the brakes.
>

Drum troll, maestro please!

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