Really wish ppl would stop bringing me trucks with hydraulic fluid in trans

[95burban]

Yay

 

[RDF1]

Bob Is The Oil Guy is an entire forum dedicated to armchair engineers arguing about which dinosaur juice is better, and its absolutely insufferable. I second the motion to return to whale oil.

What in tarnation? Whale Oil?

 

[454cid]

What in tarnation? Whale Oil?

Yes.... you've probably had it and never even known it. It's one of the main ingredients in a Snickers bar!

 

[skylark]

Many decades ago used to take stuff directly to the dump, they'd let you in with your pickup truck, trailer, etc. No idea if they still do that. You drive right up on top of the hill along with all the garbage trucks, earthmovers, etc. and offload your crap. Really unpleasant. Gives you a different perspective on waste.. what you purchase/consume/use/throw out.

Richard

We do this at a transfer station. Our 5 cans cost $20 and it takes about 2 months to fill them. Trash service is $75 a month for 1 can.

 

[454cid]

Last time I took stuff to the dump it was expensive, and I unloaded the trailer into a roll-off that would get emptied later. I helped a friend clean out his grandma's basement, and we had a full trailer. The trailer is maybe 8'x4'x4'? We just stood on top of the stuff and kept pitching stuff out until it was gone. This was probably about 15 years ago.

I haven't been on the hill since I was a kid, with my dad. I don't really remember big equipment being run, and I don't recall much of a hill, so it could have just been a pile on the ground that would get moved later. I was pretty young, so I was probably not super aware. I do remember being intrigued by a vacuum cleaner that someone had dumped.

 

[Erik the Awful]

A similar position I occupied for 18 months, while working in the Ground Support shop at United Airlines. We worked/ serviced... the lavatory service trucks.

I used to work GSE for the Navy as a contractor. They'd bring in a full lav cart for us to work on, and we'd turn them right around. "Go empty that $#!+!" They still stank to high heaven, mostly of funky blue chemicals. The most common failure was that they would leave it outside in 20*F weather and the brass pump for the blue water would crack, leaking fluid everywhere. Of course, it was 20*F outside, so you had to bring it into the shop to make the repair.

We always made sure we had the parts lined up before we started. We'd pull the cart in, slam the pump, and roll that $#!+cart right back out.

Maybe we ought to go back to ***** whale oil.

1970 Datsun 240Zs had fish oil in the front shocks to save a few bucks. Apparently they were nasty funky when they leaked.

Ive used cheap "303" hydraulic fluid in a ton of TH400s and Powerglides. It works plus it can tighten up the torque converter some too.

I've also heard of people putting old Ford Type F into a GM transmission to tighten it back up for a last thousand hundred miles. I've never dared to try it.

 

[PlayingWithTBI]

I've also heard of people putting old Ford Type F into a GM transmission to tighten it back up for a last thousand hundred miles. I've never dared to try it.

Anymore they're the same stuff. My wife's '15 Escape uses the same as I put in my '88

www.amazon.com/Valvoline-Synthetic-Automatic-Transmission-883572-EA/dp/B08HL854ZX/ref=asc_df_B08HL854ZX?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80264458940010&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583863989950178&th=1

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[skylark]

I used to work GSE for the Navy as a contractor. They'd bring in a full lav cart for us to work on, and we'd turn them right around. "Go empty that $#!+!" They still stank to high heaven, mostly of funky blue chemicals. The most common failure was that they would leave it outside in 20*F weather and the brass pump for the blue water would crack, leaking fluid everywhere. Of course, it was 20*F outside, so you had to bring it into the shop to make the repair.

We always made sure we had the parts lined up before we started. We'd pull the cart in, slam the pump, and roll that $#!+cart right back out.


1970 Datsun 240Zs had fish oil in the front shocks to save a few bucks. Apparently they were nasty funky when they leaked.


I've also heard of people putting old Ford Type F into a GM transmission to tighten it back up for a last thousand hundred miles. I've never dared to try it.

B&M used to spec Type F with either their shift kit or their converters if "B&M Trick Shift fluid wasn't available".

 

[Scooterwrench]

I've also heard of people putting old Ford Type F into a GM transmission to tighten it back up for a last thousand hundred miles. I've never dared to try it.

Cliff Ruggles explains this in his TH350 book. Not so much to prolong the life of a failing tranny but to firm up shifts.

 

[Scooterwrench]

Anymore they're the same stuff. My wife's '15 Escape uses the same as I put in my '88

www.amazon.com/Valvoline-Synthetic-Automatic-Transmission-883572-EA/dp/B08HL854ZX/ref=asc_df_B08HL854ZX?tag=bingshoppinga-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=80264458940010&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583863989950178&th=1

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Yeah,I think type F ended with the AOD's and E4OD's