I trust that, before you did that, you determined the can was really out of propellant!
Else the ice pick you used to poke the hole may very well be in your neighbor's yard or you have a new ear-piercing.
Yeah, but who wants to buy 2000 products for perfect jobs when one product does "good enough."
As for your distributor cap, an electric hair dryer might work better than WD-40, but your fellow mechanics would look at you with suspicion upon seeing one in your toolkit.
The WP seals do need some lubrication. Feel free to run straight water without any Water Wetter in it in your car to attempt to prove us wrong.
nate
Why? It's good for shrinking heat shrink without having to carry a butane lighter, less risk of burning your thumb.
nate
Thanks. I'll check it out.
I've heard of their gas treatment, will take a look at their lube spray.
Thanks, Peetie
You're lucky it didn't blow-up the dist.cap!
while i don't do it regularly, i have done it. Living in a zone that freezes, we tend to keep the antifreeze in.
I've had no problems running straight water on occasion. I realize (as an ase certified mechanic) that some water pump lube is a good idea if you're going to run straight water. Because water is just about as good a lubricant as WD-40
we call them heat guns. Multitude of uses. Very common in our tool chests.
why would it do that? Even if wd were flammable, the mixture inside the cap would be too rich to burn.
That was true in 2001, but not in 2009. Today it would be 110 years.
They run without ethelene glycol coolant so in case of a crash they don't have it all over the track. A water pump lubricant is REQUIRED if antifreeze is not in the system. This is mostly to protect the SEALS as today's water pump bearings use sealed lifetime lubricated bearings.
I'd have to dissagree on the wet cap thing. Unless the cap carbon tracks, simply drying it out is all that is required. I used to warm mine up and rub a beeswax candle on the inside to "seal" the bakelite. Then a foggy day didn't prevent my old Mopar from starting.
yea, I've had that happen. ONCE.
From then on I always made sure things were aired out before I re-assembled. The propellant is similar to, if not, propane - it makes an ezxcellent starting fluid. I know it's the propellant, not the WD40 itself because from a pump bottle it is USELESS. Once the propellant lights, of course the Kerosene burns too.
Don't count on it.
CRC 556
And you'd need a pretty good inverter to run it .
That can be true for any three centuries. You really only need one year and two days. I said it CAN cover. It CAN be 1499, 1500, and 1501 too.
That was supposed to be 1601
Gotcha. :)
The propellant is propane...and is very good at starting small engines.
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