December 23, 200421 yr ea82. i was on the highway and i noticed a bit of smoke. i pulled into work, and oil was leaking out of a cam seal, or the oil pump. like dripping like crazy. the other day i saw this happen on an ea81, at the oil seal. extreme cold making rubber stay hard. hopefully its not cracked, and can seal itself back up, if it gets warmer? wierd stuff, also my oil guage was pegged the whole drive. i think i might be one of those guys that i have cursed for years. im thinking about cardboard in front of the rad for extreme cold. -9 real temp.
December 23, 200421 yr -9 degrees? You call that cold? Come to Alaska where it's, uh it's ... 40 degrees today. Oops! i guess -9 might be cold. (But don't let the mild temperaturetruth out. We'd rather project the myth of severe cold and igloos and sleddogs... going to keep away the yuppies.) Sorry to hear about your seal - but it reminds me of a local joke. punchline is: No, that's mayonaise. Merry x-mas.
December 23, 200421 yr -9 degrees? You call that cold? Come to Alaska where it's, uh it's ... 40 degrees today. Oops! i guess -9 might be cold. (But don't let the mild temperaturetruth out. We'd rather project the myth of severe cold and igloos and sleddogs... going to keep away the yuppies.) Sorry to hear about your seal - but it reminds me of a local joke. punchline is: No, that's mayonaise. Merry x-mas. We try to do the same around here with the "always raining" myth. (Although Florida gets more inches and more days with rain.) Hasn't worked for us, but then we are an easy drive away for the yuppies. Can't see the Lexus crowd heading up the highway to you. I hear Antartica is even worse... rubber is as hard as concrete and steel gets brittle from the cold. Festive seasonal activities!!!
December 23, 200421 yr Author hopefully i fixed it. forgot about winterizing my car, other than the anitfreeze. as far as i can tell, i was running half 2050 harley oil, and half 1030. and i was runing a 180 thermostat changed them both, and the squirt has changed to a drip.
December 24, 200421 yr it gets real cold up here in the St. Lawrence Valley (tippy-top of New York..) we experience -30F sometimes regularly in the winter, and 110F a few times every summer.... screw that, I'll take the 40F in Alaska anyday! oh... a few days ago it was -15F, and today it was 47F at the high... talk about strange weather patterns.... the jeep I'm driving has dinosaur gear oil in the transmission.. can't even get it into neutral when it's below 0F, gotta sit there with your foot on the clutch waiting for it to warm up for 15 minutes, before you can put it in neutral and get out, go inside, stand by the fire for another 15 minutes, go back outside, and MAYBE drive away if your butt doesn't freeze to the vinyl seat!
December 24, 200421 yr Author hehehe, this moning i had to rev it up and dump the clutch to keep it from dying, in neutral! it will move forward in neutral if the brake isnt on. cars hate cold like this. i broke a screw driver when i droped it on the concrete!
December 24, 200421 yr my 86 spfi fwd sedan will leak alittle antifreeze around the water pump when it get 0 or below,
December 24, 200421 yr ea82. i was on the highway and i noticed a bit of smoke. i pulled into work, and oil was leaking out of a cam seal, or the oil pump. like dripping like crazy. the other day i saw this happen on an ea81, at the oil seal. extreme cold making rubber stay hard. hopefully its not cracked, and can seal itself back up, if it gets warmer? wierd stuff, also my oil guage was pegged the whole drive. i think i might be one of those guys that i have cursed for years. im thinking about cardboard in front of the rad for extreme cold. -9 real temp. Go for it... that's my next step! (see Polar Express post) -2 here... never got past 1/2 way to first normal mark.
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