Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 23:56:28 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Mullendore port help
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I know, I know,
one can not mention WD-40 without someone saying that.
it's like a pavlovian reaction.
whatever....
I have used it for mabye 40 years.
I don't say it's a 'thick oily lube..
but it works beautifully for some things.
sometimes I'll use it to get something clean and working smoothly ( like a
mechaism ) then follow it up with a more lubious lube.
tell you what..
I see SO MANY things on vanagons that have *never been lubed since the
factory* .........dozens, scores of places ...little spots that move, slide,
pivot etc..
and ANY lubrication ...........even with whatever, used engine oil with
10,000 miles on it would be One Thousand times better than the 'no lube'
that so many spots on vanagon get.
even cooking oil would be better than the nothing the get.
and tell me, how can a shop install a brand new rebuilt waterboxer engine
and not do basic simple lube items like a dab of grease on cable barrel
clamp where it pivots in the throttle body lever ???
or even the return spring, where it's hooked in a hole in bare metal...
I've never seen that spot lubed...........and those wear some.
and about 200 other spots on vanagons ..
and if they'd gotten WD-40 .........they sure would not be half worn through
and rusty like so many spots on vanagons I see are ?
most technicians are just parts replacers.
there is very little fine tuning, careful adjusting, lubricating of whole
systems in their various little parts. w
IF ONLY the poor things had gotten WD-40 in hundreds of spots on them !
I use a lot of penetrating spray lube too.
lots of that. Many different brads of it. Like DeepCreep by Seafaom. To
name one of many that I use.
Even my parts vans get things lubed on them. Can't stand rust.
how can someone say they 'love their baby' .......and take their van to
shops for work..
and it has the most horribly squeaky sliding door you ever heard......
poor thing just screaming for a few tiny shots of lube, WD-40 or otherwise..
and it takes all of 10 to 15 seconds to make the door about 96 % better
working..
and yet no one ......all the adjults invovled in suppossidly loving or
working on this van ..
how is it that no one could spend 20 seconds and pennies in spray lube
treating the poor door sliders ???
anwser me that Batman. I just don't get it.
WD-40 would have been 2000 % better than nothing there !
Spit almost would have been better than what the poor thing never got !
I don't see that people see these most obvious, just crying out for
attention, simple details.
WD-40 or otherwise.
*anything* would be so much better than nothing.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Hargrave" <thargrav@hiwaay.net>
To: "'Scott Daniel - Turbovans'" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>;
<vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 10:19 PM
Subject: RE: Mullendore port help
> WD-40 is not a lubricant and once the volatiles dry up there is no lube
> left
> at all.
>
> Thanks, Tom Hargrave
> www.stir-plate.com
> www.towercooler.com
> www.kegkits.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
> Scott Daniel - Turbovans
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 11:57 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Mullendore port help
>
> I sure wouldn't use PB Blaster..........the pentrating oil if that's what
> you mean.
>
> I'd use WD-40.
> WD-40 may not 'do everything' that other better lubes can do ..
> but it also is not surpassed for what it is good at.
>
> I'm careful where I use it..but 'usually' for electrical stuff. ...very
> often it can make them quite a lot happier, at least for me.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edward Maglott" <emaglott3@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 2:47 PM
> Subject: Re: Mullendore port help
>
>
>> Sorry, it was 25 according to Bentley and there was a blown 20A in
>> there. And I put in a 25A, forgot to check the owners manual...
>>
>> Good advice to turn on the fan to see the motor shaft spinning. It
>> is up and straight back from where I drilled the hole. I think it
>> might be better to have the hole to the right farther to get a better
>> view and angle to lube. I made the extra long hose and got some
>> Tri-Flow up in there but it's still squeaking. I'm going to let it
>> soak overnight and see if it sounds better tomorrow. might try PB
>> blaster next.
>>
>> Edward
>>
>> At 11:41 PM 10/4/2011, David Beierl wrote:
>>>At 08:57 PM 10/4/2011, Edward Maglott wrote:
>>>>I found my once squealing heater was not working at all and it's fuse
>>>>was blown. It had a 25A fuse, which was supposed to be 30 according
>>>>to Bentley. I put in a 30A and it is back running but I wanted to do
>>>>the Mullendore port lubrication.
>>>
>>>On a 2.1l that ought to be a 20 amp fuse, pretty sure. On a 1.9l
>>>prolly a 16 amp?
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