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1. Re: [6pack] Today's price of gasoline (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:24:57 -0700; This makes some uneconomic assumptions. In fact, a better indicator would be the actual rate of inflation, which, from 1958 to 2006 is a factor of 6.92. Other sources show an average cost of gasoline; /html/6pack/2008-01/msg00156.html (9,360 bytes)
2. Re: [6pack] synching carbs (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:29:10 -0700; It makes sense if your carburetors are in very good working order and you spend much of your time at full throttle. However, if the carb bores and throttle edges are showing a little wear from the th; /html/6pack/2008-11/msg00164.html (8,015 bytes)
3. Re: [6pack] Spark Plugs (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:54:52 -0700; Guess it does. I've had Bosch platinums in mine for eight or nine years. Never pulled the first set in six years. I suppose they would have lasted longer if I hadn't been doing almost exclusively in-; /html/6pack/2009-02/msg00186.html (7,651 bytes)
4. Re: [6pack] New tires and wheels (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:06:57 -0600; Unless you have tires with a particularly squirmy tread, this is almost always a problem not with the tires or wheels, but with the toe setting. Given that the cars have fairly short tie rods, bump s; /html/6pack/2009-10/msg00013.html (8,229 bytes)
5. Re: [6pack] ?? (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 02:20:05 -0600; Yes. Cheers. -- Michael Porter Roswell, NM Never let anyone drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance.... _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.; /html/6pack/2009-10/msg00048.html (6,343 bytes)
6. Re: [6pack] Indicator flashers (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:52:51 -0600; This is a much more common problem than just on cars with a lot of road noise. On the buses my former employers produced, there was a move to PAL chip-controlled electricals, mostly as a way to reduc; /html/6pack/2009-10/msg00148.html (9,140 bytes)
7. Re: [6pack] rebuilt differential on Ebay (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:16:32 -0700; True enough, but, if the guy is in the business, he's not paying retail for the parts, but, rather, jobber prices, and is likely only replacing the bits that actually require replacement. As well, if; /html/6pack/2009-11/msg00007.html (7,998 bytes)
8. Re: [6pack] brake cleaner and welding warning (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:12:49 -0700; Yes, brake cleaner does evaporate quickly, and has a very low vapor pressure. However, many items have microscopic or larger pores where the liquid can be retained due to surface tension, and if you'; /html/6pack/2010-01/msg00046.html (9,372 bytes)
9. Re: [6pack] waterless coolant (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:28:39 -0700; Oh, yes, true for the pre-1980 engines in Bugs and vans, but, I think the reference is to the so-called Wasserboxer engines in the Vanagons. Those engines initially used a water/glycol mix which enco; /html/6pack/2010-01/msg00059.html (7,727 bytes)
10. Re: [6pack] starter or ring gear (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:04:35 -0600; I could buy that but for the construction of this type of starter. It doesn't use a centrifugal Bendix-type arrangement to throw the pinion into mesh with the ring gear, nor does it have a solenoid a; /html/6pack/2010-04/msg00128.html (8,310 bytes)
11. Re: [6pack] Mystery part (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:50:24 -0600; Ed, how well would it work as a spring clip if it were 1/8" thick, as Bob says? Most spring retainer clips of the type you describe that I've seen are nominally around 1/32" thick, and typically have; /html/6pack/2010-07/msg00106.html (8,090 bytes)
12. Re: [6pack] lug nuts (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:30:34 -0700; Umm, this might need a bit of clarification, since the essential differences are not steel v. aluminum, but rather are ones of hub type and the necessary included angle of the lug nut. First, there a; /html/6pack/2011-01/msg00002.html (9,475 bytes)
13. Re: [6pack] Electronic Ignition Opinion (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:10:14 -0700; Same here. I've had an Allison (now Crane) unit on the GT6 for fifteen years now, with no problems. I think some of the early failures that queered people on the Allison/Crane setup was that the main; /html/6pack/2012-11/msg00037.html (9,715 bytes)
14. Re: [6pack] Canada - TR5 or TR250 (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:06:46 -0700; IIRC, the plan was to introduce PI as a means of meeting the 1968 US emissions standards, but the development costs mounted (partly because Lucas specified individual runner throttling and some other; /html/6pack/2013-01/msg00011.html (13,565 bytes)
15. Re: [6pack] 6pack Digest, Vol 5, Issue 3 (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 07:05:54 -0700; Jim, I tend to think the business about unwillingness to learn fuel injection is more apocryphal than substantive. The technology was changing in a lot of ways by then (note that 4As had had, for exa; /html/6pack/2013-01/msg00017.html (10,843 bytes)
16. Re: [6pack] [TR] interesting find (score: 1): Author: Michael Porter <mdporter@dfn.com>; Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:07:13 -0600; These were, not all that long ago, incredibly common (I've got two different types somewhere in my toolbox, one with wire gauges around the circumference, and one with a sliding ramp around the "coin; /html/6pack/2014-09/msg00046.html (9,209 bytes)

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