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  1. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    I hope not! That was the whole idea. Get stuff that wont come off even with a pressure washer. If I really want it off, I can use a power washer with scalding hot water and hope the fuel tank doesnt blow up and I dont strip paint off the bottom. I'll probably paper towel the bottom in a few...
  2. crazypete

    someone teach me how to tune my carb.

    Get a 1 wire o2 sensor (the old cadillacs have them, $20) and a mixture guage from summit, $35. Take all the guesswork out.
  3. crazypete

    Which oil, conventional, synthetic, or blended?

    This is true but in my experience, when you reach 150k or so, the amount of blowby you can get from a spirited peg of the throttle far exceeds what the pcv can "suck" through that small hose and you get a pressure spike and some oil goes bloop out the side of the engine or out the dipstick.
  4. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    Hey those things work. I remember winters out in amherst as a poor college student seeing explorers and trucks stuck in snowbanks while my tire chained 87 lx 5.0 plinked away. I had a weekend job that required me to drive back to boston...sometimes at 2 am in snowstorms before the plows have...
  5. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    It's surprisingly surefooted. I lightened the nose a lot and weightened the tail a bit. Should be pretty close to 50/50 right now. When it gets real bad, I hit the tire chains (well, theyre more like tire cables actually). I hate the thought of not being able to drive my stang for half a...
  6. crazypete

    Which oil, conventional, synthetic, or blended?

    Disconnect your PCV and install a crankcase breather and try again. You'd be surprised. Both my 143K 302 and my girlfriend's 154k tbird 302 were both oil fountains until I switched to a breather system and barely a drop every few weeks now on both cars. Its amazing what a difference it makes...
  7. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    Dude, that would be a "free rustproofing". I wonder how many free rustproofings I'll hand out tonight on my way to townsend?
  8. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    Hey anyone who lives in mass and sees the sheer amount of salt on the roads and the horribly rusted cars driving around (especially after looking at the underside of my girlfriends t-bird) will not think this is too extreme when you think of maybe HAVING to drive your project car around in the...
  9. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    Well, I just ran the car and it doesnt smoke or smell awful or anything. It had the sliiightest whiff in the cabin but it was barely noticable. As I type this, I smell a funny smell so it has a strange after-smell but it is also very mild sooooooo SUCCESS! I'll see how it holds up in a week or so
  10. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    You guys are too funny I have plenty of "rubber coating" on the underside of my rear fenders behind the rear wheels. :D:D As a matter of fact, as I scraped it off, some of it landed in my 400 watt shoplight(the glass had broken a while ago so it was an "open shoplight") and caused one hell of...
  11. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    It's not that slippery. It's more like cold vasalene. My arms were tired from working the stuff.
  12. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    I think since I got my MBTA rail pass, I've driven the car every other weekend at best. It gets harder to prowl the streets with consistency as one gets older and work starts to eat into one's free time. I live on pleasant street across from stella road and am occasionally found at fortes but...
  13. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    I'm gonna fininsh the underside of the nose frame and then fire it up. We'll see if I get a huge plume of smoke. I'm gonna carry a respirator just in case.
  14. crazypete

    Synthetic oil kills trac-loc?

    I rebuilt my trackloc and use mobil1 75w-90 with no friction modifier and the tracloc works like a champ! Your friend is wrong.
  15. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    My grandpa used to do this to his old fiat 800 and his LADA. When you have to wait the better part of a decade for a car, you cannot afford to have it rust at all. Moisture has nowhere to settle. I was _thorough_ and got every nook and cranny. If moisture gets in there, it sits on top of a...
  16. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    I always wondered about that.....in this case, wouldnt all car mechanics keel over from skin cancer in short order. I mean they work around automitve oils all day long day in and out. Most of these guys even smell like oil. Yet somehow they live and a lot of them grow to an old ripe age. A lot...
  17. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    It has the word "ketone" in it. They dont seem to post any MSDS sheets but I'm sure its nasty stuff. I need to be careful with these organic compounds or my kids will come out with 3 arms. Thats the other thing I loved about the grease. It had no solvents. It was just grease.
  18. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    My beloved project was rotting away right in front of my eyes! This required drastic measures! Besides, I've done about 7-8 cans of qulity rubberizer too before. Nothing was working.....except an oil leak that was coating the trans tunnel and totally preventing rust.
  19. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    I think I've emptied over 20 rattlecans down there by now and it will just flake off. Thats why I needed something to penetrate and soak into the scale. Paint is nice but it just cant hold up to new england.
  20. crazypete

    LOL, Now THIS is rustproofing

    Well, the front tires do all the stopping anyway and if I do happen to hit something, she's so slippery, it'll just slide ride off. :D:D:D
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