<VV> foaming fountains and Vairs, was ATF

[Tony Underwood]

At 09:04 hours 05/23/2006, CorvairEd at aol.com wrote:
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>In a message dated 5/22/2006 8:34:20 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
>tonyu at roava.net writes:
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>My  favorite was the guy with the early '60s Rambler (6 cylinder) who
>taught  shop classes at my old alma mater.   As a demo of the fact
>that  a lubricating agent need not be petroleum based, he ran the car
>for a week  or two back and forth between classes and home with
>nothing but dish  washing liquid in the pan.  If it got a little low
>from evaporation,  he added water.   I think he did nothing except
>flush the oil,  replaced the filter, and removed the thermostat so the
>engine wouldn't run  hot, and filled it to the FULL mark with Joy.
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>Tony,
>I don't know how it didn't foam right the road draft tube.


I suspect that some it must have... leave a dribble of suds behind 
the car etc.   Not sure how well the experiment went, far as the 
technical issues (like the soap foaming up) but it evidently 
worked.   The car stunt was the talk of the school for weeks.



>Some of  my
>flying buddies and I put a bottle of Joy in a spa in a motel in  Panama
>City, Fla. once and it filled the whole court yard with foam in about
>20 minutes.  Made the manager quit upset but he couldn't prove who
>did it.  ggg



When I was a kid, there was a newspaper story in the "Local" section 
about a fountain in the middle of downtown that someone soaped up, 
foamed the fountain full and spilled out onto the lawn, sidewalk, 
gutter etc.    A couple of us got to thinking...  went to Victory 
Stadium with its great big fancy fountain with the lights etc in the 
water and so forth (showed up in the evening on bicycles, no less) 
and tossed a box of Tide in the fountain...  just threw the box in, 
no opening it up  or pouring or whatever.   We'd kinda chickened 
out... and fled, giggling.

The next day there was soap suds From Hell all over the place, 
fountain base (which was about 20 feet across) was covered and 
invisible and foam was covering the grass for about 20 feet in all 
directions radiating out from the fountain base.   I was astonished 
that just one box of Tide could foam up like that.

It was marvelous!

Last time I was by the place, I thought about what a bottle of Dawn 
dishwashing liquid would do... since Dawn seems to foam up as well or 
better as anything else I've ever seen.    Alas... Victory Stadium is 
in the middle of a quandary over whether it should be demolished or 
refurbished (I am VERY much in favor of refurbishing) and the 
fountain hasn't been running for some time.     However...  just 
outside the downtown area there's a small park close to I-581 with a 
similar fountain...  might have to check that one out.

Or, I could use the bottle of Dawn to wash some of the Vairs 
instead.    ;)

As a final attempt to struggle back on topic...  the '60 Monza coupe 
*still* has a quart anna half of ATF in its pan, and has had such 
since it's been living here, ATF having been "re-added" with each oil 
change.     I expect the insides of the engine to be rather clean by now...

May be a moot point... someone else in the household wants to replace 
the 80hp with a 110 for more "umph".    The original 80hp engine is 
solid and smooth and in good shape, hate to consider swapping it out 
for something else just to gain a few horsepower.

I do however have something else (a buggy) that it could go into, 
should it get swapped fore the 110.



tony..