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Re: [TR] Fo8 Sealants Question and List Responses

To: Dan Cronin <adcronin@mi.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [TR] Fo8 Sealants Question and List Responses
From: John Macartney <John.Macartney@Ukpips.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2021 16:43:39 +0000
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 Interesting that the factory workshop manuals do not specify a particular 
product or brandâ?¦.

Basic Reasons:

1. Unless absolutely essential, the company policy was not to recommend any one 
product over another except for things such as oils and fuel octane ratings 
which latter are calculated still in two different ways.
2. Some products are known in only a few markets and not all of them. Company 
was supplying product to over 100 different markets.
3. The cars were only designed to last for a maximum period of 10 years, so why 
bother as mostly the cars would be maintained by the dealers for all but the 
simplest tasks.

Yes, I remember each car handbook described how to set valve clearances and 
ignition timing whereas today, the handbook in my wifeâ??s new car points out 
the dangers of drinking battery acid.

I do recall some manuals and service bulletins called for a sealant called 
DumDum - and of course, few people if any outside the U.K. have ever heard of 
DumDum. Even this list has speculated on it!

Jonmac
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