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Re: Drip free TR6 engine achieved !

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Subject: Re: Drip free TR6 engine achieved !
From: "Andrew H. Litkowiak" <andylit@covad.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 06:56:27 -0500
Somebody call his Doctor. Dave has gone off his meds and is delusional. No 
telling what he might see next :-)


TR6 Triumph wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was just reading my old posts to the list (back from April) and wanted 
> to tell everyone that my TR6 engine is now drip free!!!!
> 
> I had a multitude of drip originating issues: including but not limited 
> to: valve cover gasket, top of valve cover where the nuts hold the cover 
> down, the fuel pump gasket, metal fuel line itself after teh fuel pump, 
> et cetera ad nasuem).  I'd been taking care of one issue after another 
> without thinking about it much as a whole until last week.  After the 
> second of my three recently trips in my 6 I had cause to park in someone 
> else's garage so I laid down a piece of thick clear plastic (which I 
> carry around with me) and drove it up over top of it (as I didn't want 
> to soil the pretty concrete of the person's garage that I was parking 
> in).  Two days later when I pulled out I was pleasantly surprised: no 
> oil on the plastic under the engine!
> 
> With time comes insanity.  And on rare occasion- success.
> 
> Sincerely,
> Dave Herbert
> 1969 TR6




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