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Subject: plastigauge & Spit frame
From: tom.omalley@channel1.com (Tom Omalley)
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 1996 22:11:00 -0640
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>Greetings Worldly Scions,

Greetings Worldly Bob, compulsive address changer!

>How do you remove the plasti-guage to read it after you have
>"squashed" it in the bearing assembly?  Do you have to loosen the
>bolts?  If you do, doesn't that use up the one-shot nature of
>torqueing these type bolts?  More than one inquiring Scion wants
>to know.

Yes...me too!.  Someone else suggested that you should use the
old bolts to check clearance.  Makes sense.  How much did you say
the new one's cost?  $5 per?  Use the old ones. :-)

BTW....when I tried using the the plastigauge last year,  I left
the bearing prelube on the surface.  This was a mistake.  It
seemed to dissolve the plastigauge and I had a heck of a time
cleaning the mess up.

>bumper, exposing these openings a little more.  Water had gotten
>in, and  it winds up at the low point between diff
>mount and rear cross member.  The frame then rusted from the
>inside.  This type of rust is non-repairable (according to the
>manual) and serious before it is usually detected.

Bob....can this area be properly inspected from underneath
the car?  I mean, you only saw this after pulling the tub,
correct?

>Yes I've done it again.  My email address of the month is
>ADU3B@aol.com  at least *IT* has some LBC content ;-)

He he....is AT&T next month?

Best Regards...Tom O'Malley
'74 Spit under 8" of *new* snow :-(

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