The picking of nits

["Janet Scruggs" <scruggs@mbay.net>]

Alex,  no buzzer... a typing error I'm sure... but you did mean
hygroscopic, right?    

Regards,  Gross Scruggs

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> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 1997 17:20:39 EST
> From: Audial <Audial@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: 5k rack survey, '86-'88.
> 
> I bought my '86 5KCSTQ with 93K mi. on the clock.
> 
> It had a newly installed ZF-remanufactured hydraulic pump (I wonder how
much
> the o-rings cost ZF?) and a replacement rack at the time of purchase,
along
> with a new clutch, clutch hydraulics, alternator and exhaust (Ansa).  
> 
> The rack on my dad's 86 5K wagon seemed to last a little longer - it
started
> hemorraging at about 125,000 miles.
> 
> All that I can hope is that the shop that did the work was savvy and
installed
> a stainless-sleeved remanufactured rack in place of the old one.  
> 
> (You know, just as an aside, it's funny to me that older Corvettes from
the
> time of the introduction of 4-wheel disc brakes in 1965 (?) leaked like
sieves
> from all 16 pistons after about, say, 50,000 miles or several years,
until a
> cottage industry grew up around sleeving the caliper bores with stainless
> steel.  You should have seen the crap that was inside the piston bores of
the
> front calipers of my '68 when I took them apart.  Looks like the same
stuff
> that comes out of an old steam-heat radiator).  
> 
> Is Pentosin hydroscopic?
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Alex
> 
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