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New guy with questions
skucera:
My mission, indeed! I've never heard of graphite-based anti-seize. I'll have to ask my mechanical engineers at work. If they've heard of it, I'm sure they'll know of a source for it.
Scott
skucera:
My mechanical engineer said that she had heard of graphite-based anti-seize, but then got one of those wry looks like I just shouldn't meddle where I didn't have any right to be. She pointed me to some Galvanic Index charts on the web that showed that for anything except a saltwater environment I shouldn't worry about using anti-seize between steel bolts and aluminum engine parts. She pointed out that most anti-seize compounds are made with aluminum anyway, and a few are made with copper, which just isn't galvanically different enough from one metal or the other. Anti-seize does work to keep bolts from sticking, of course, but it doesn't have anything to do with the galvanic index. And when she was done I had one of those, "Duh, why didn't I think that through on my own..." realizations that made me glad to have engineers from so many disciplines around the office.
I wrote earlier that my first maintenance task was to replace the water pump. It turned out I've been driving around on a brand new battery that the seller bought a week before selling it to me because he figured the battery had gone bad. It hadn't; the alternator was bad instead, so I called him back up, and he felt so bad about it that he gave me $100 back so I could buy a rebuilt alternator. I put it in last night, and WOW those headlights are bright now with a fully charged battery and a functional alternator. I'm still looking forward to replacing the water pump, just as soon as I can get my Taurus back together and out of my garage.
Scott
Skibum346:
--- Quote from: "skucera" ---My mechanical engineer said that she...
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She... :shock: Now that's progress! :(biglaugh): :smack:
Glad it's going well matey!
Range Rover Blues:
--- Quote from: "skucera" --- a saltwater environment
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That'll be most roads in the UK this winter then :?
skucera:
You've got me there, since Oregon outlawed road salt decades ago. (The salt run-off hurt the fish in the streams. Sportsmen took a dim view of that.)
Back east, they use salt on the roads. I've only been back east in the winter twice. The cars around Toronto had salt stains on their sides, so I could easily call that a saltwater environment. The cars in Connecticut didn't have salt stains, which lead me to believe that Connecticut just didn't use as much salt on their roads, probably because they didn't need to. Do your cars end up with a white film on their sides in the winter from the road salt?
Scott
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