My baby's getting hip surgery

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04-17-2010, 08:10 AM

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Joolander

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yeah, i'd rather be safe than sorry Norm, especially with an install thats as finicky as gears

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Originally Posted by pascal

It is a small world, lol.
So Joo, how's that TR3?

TR3's good, it runs great. The biggest problem right now is the temperature gauge

04-17-2010, 08:18 AM

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congrats on the new gears, should make the car alittle more fun

04-17-2010, 01:00 PM

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7up

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Originally Posted by Norm Peterson

Cooling down will take more than two hours. It takes extra time for the heat in the parts of everything above the diff fluid level to work its way out. And the oil is not being stirred to keep warmer oil flowing up against the pumpkin casting and its cover, so there's only some weak convection currents within the fluid, which I would not count on for much.

I'd let at least the first heat cycle cool down overnight.

If this sounds like I really hate to run any extra risk of having to do things over - - - it's because I really do hate to. And because I've been through having to re-do a couple of things to know.

Having read this, nix my cool down time specifications in an earlier post I made. Sounds like Norm has upper hand knowledge in this area.

Just so thankful I'm whine free after a 3.31 to 3.73 swap, despite my underrated cool down span time.