From: Greg Booth (gbooth@kc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jul 09 2002 - 14:54:34 PDT
Point? I wasn't making any point just an observation. While it had no load
the water temp did rise to almost 260 so there was some friction playing in
some where. It was kind of neat to watch the crankshaft turning, rods
pivoting.
Greg Booth MVPA # 24369
----- Original Message -----
From: "jonathon" <jemery@execpc.com>
To: "Greg Booth" <gbooth@kc.rr.com>
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Fw: Basic M35 info
>
> >Many years ago I went to the State Fair and they had a Engine sitting in
a
> >stand "Running" It had a jack on the oil pan and was running on Slick 50.
On
> >the side it had a instruments cluster with oil pressure water temp and
> >volts. They would run this motor at around 1500 RPM,S you could watch the
> >gauge reading almost 35-40 lbs. of pressure. Then they would drop the
jack
> >and the oil pan down Oil pressure dropped to 0 they ran this motor for
> >almost a hour then jacked then pan back up and the motor would pick the
oil
> >and have good pressure. They did this several times during the Fair.
>
> And your point is? When they do these demonstrations the engine is not
> running under any load, I doubt that the Slick 50 had anything to do with
it.
>
> later,
>
> je
>
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