<VV> lube oil contamination

[MarK Durham]

Jay, that is true for anything that relies on a lubricant. The good thing
is as you drive the cars and warm them up, that gear oil gets hot and the
water vaporizes pretty quickly. The trans has a cover on top that has a
vent in it for the moisture to leave. Our engines have a harder time with
moisture than the trans/diff do because water is a byproduct of combustion
that gets past the piston rings as the engine runs. That needs to be vented
overboard or recirculated back into the intake, which is what pcv valves
do.

Mark Durham
Hauser, Idaho
62 Monza coupe Red/Red 4 speed

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Jay Maechtlen via VirtualVairs <
virtualvairs at corvair.org> wrote:

> On an engineering forum (eng-tips - Transmission, Driveline, Hybrid Drive
> engineering Forum <http://www.eng-tips.com/threadminder.cfm?pid=78&page=1>),
> I saw the following:
>
> " life of gears and bearings can be shortened exponentially when small
> amounts of water are present in the lubricant - even 0.1% can reduce the
> lifespan quite considerably. "
>
>  interesting...
>
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> Buick V6 TH440T4 trans
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