Re: Running the first time

[Ted Rose <tlr@domain.elided>]

Duncan - a possibility - years ago my car acted like that and it was
the thrust washer(s?) on the crank. 4th gear made no noise, but there
was a whine when driving (accelerating) in any of the other gears.
Hope this is not the problem, but (as best I can tell) there was no
damage from it, just an annoying whine (I had the engine rebuilt for
other reasons and that fixed the problem).

Ted Rose

At 11:50 PM 7/14/98 +0000, duncan Miller wrote:
>The car is a 1971 VIN#  LE1105l with I guese a 13 psi radiator cap. I
>was getting some blow by into the overflow bottle. No coolent in the vee
>under the manifold.Radiator seems to be in good shape.The car has 70,000
>total miles. It passed CA smog in 12/94 not shore sence the rebuild but
>it looks like about 12,000 miles. I've been all over the body and it is
>totaly rust free. The interior is almost spotless. The front right
>fender was brazed on, a good job but not spot welds. I guess  I was
>unclear about the trans. It shifts into gear just fine, in fact I
>tortured the 2nd gear sync. by doing hard change downs. What I meant is
>in the lower gears there is gear whine from the trans.  I have not
>pulled the thermostat  housing but I'll bet there is no thermostat in
>there. The car was parked for about 3  1/2 years. But prior to this time
>it was well maintained acording to the records.
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>Duncan Miller
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