Re: Dino juice

[Andrew Duane USG/PE <duane@zk3.dec.com>]

Hairy green toads from Mars made Linus say:

> BTW--what's your practice with oil plug gaskets?  do you change every time?
>  I do, but it's very annoying at $4 each at the local dealers--used to be $1
> or so for the small kind on the steel pans.

18 months ago, I spent the best $15 I ever have: I bought a drain
valve from Imparts. These suckers screw in (pretty tight), and let
you drain the oil with a flip of a switch. They are well-machined,
and do not leak at all. No more worrying about gaskets, stripped
oil pan threads, or swinging a wrench under the car.

Speaking of which, how in the !*@#^!*@^#*!@^# do you get that stupid
aero-cover back on underneath engine in the 90Q20V? Changing the oil in
my 100Q is easy: just slide underneath and do it. I have it down to the
sub-3-minute mark. The 90Q needs to be jacked up, at least 250 nuts to
undo the cover, no room to move, then how to get it back on. I actually
pay someone else to change the oil in it.

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Only my cat shares my opinions, and she can't even fit under the 90Q.