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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
To: "atrav" <atrav@copper.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:50 AM
Subject: Re: Oil stuff
> Interesting subject. A quick look at our archives shows very little on
the
> subject of oil analysis and what it means.
>
> My last contact with this subject was 42 years ago as a newly minted Navy
> ensign sitting across a desk from a wizened old Civil Service quarterman.
> This guy said he had tried it out in the vehicle maintenance shops and it
> didn't tell them much for what it cost. I paid attention to him and
forgot
> about the subject.
> Nice old guy; he saved my bacon several times in the next year on that
job.
> Technically I was his boss. That was a real chuckle. His name was Ed
> Smathers. I late found out his brother, George, was the senior senator
from
> Florida at the time and he was on a first name basis with the local
district
> Representative in the House, who just happened to be the Chairman of one
of
> the Armed Forces sub-committies. Talk about political power!! Needless
to
> say, I let him do his job.......
>
> Anyhow, my question to the list is: Have any of you racers had good
> experience with oil analysis and if so; what tests tell you something
> useful?
> I think my friend, Doug King, might have used it once or twice; but in
> recent years he's paid a lot more attention to a visual check of the
debris
> in the engine's screen filter and leakdown tests when there were questions
> about possible engine damage. For sure oil analysis by a lab won't do you
> much good during the meet.
>
> Ed Weldon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "atrav" <atrav@copper.net>
> Subject: Fw: Oil stuff
> > Oil, oil, and more oil. Posted from another list....
> > -Aron-
> >
>
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