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Title: TomP - Check It Out!
Post by: mbrunson427 on April 13, 2018, 10:35:38 AM

Before....
(https://s31.postimg.cc/c8es8a6wr/62_Galaxie6.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

A transmission appeared under all the grease:
(https://s31.postimg.cc/daoyqv00r/IMG_4760.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

(https://s31.postimg.cc/5upp524ln/IMG_4761.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

(https://s31.postimg.cc/5hyayw1rf/IMG_4762.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)

Title: Re: TomP - Check It Out!
Post by: Tommy-T on April 13, 2018, 11:39:42 AM

How dirty did YOU get during the transformation?

Title: Re: TomP - Check It Out!
Post by: machoneman on April 13, 2018, 11:45:19 AM

Nice! Got enough leftover oil from cleaning to fill her back up again with it!  ;)

Title: Re: TomP - Check It Out!
Post by: TomP on April 13, 2018, 11:49:12 AM

$500 worth of Castrol SuperClean later!

Title: Re: TomP - Check It Out!
Post by: mbrunson427 on April 13, 2018, 01:29:52 PM

haha! It actually wasn't that awful. Laid some trash bags down on the garage floor and took the scraper to it. My new favorite trick is WD-40 and scotch brite pads for cleaning things. The oil had turned into this semi-hardened sort of stuff that flaked off like chewing tobacco. No, I didn't try to chew any of it.

Title: Re: TomP - Check It Out!
Post by: Lenz on April 13, 2018, 02:13:44 PM

Yep, we just talked about cleaning with kerosene, cheap and effective.  WD-40 gives the advantage of a mini pressure washer in the tight places.  "High garage tech" stuff everyone has too.  The tranny looks great!

Title: Re: TomP - Check It Out!
Post by: turbohunter on April 13, 2018, 02:49:31 PM

Amazes me how the oil plus dirt covering preserves the stuff underneath like the painted letters.

Title: Re: TomP - Check It Out!
Post by: cjshaker on April 13, 2018, 06:13:51 PM

Quote from: turbohunter on April 13, 2018, 02:49:31 PM

Amazes me how the oil plus dirt covering preserves the stuff underneath like the painted letters.

I was going to mention that also. Leaking engines are the best automotive preservative  ;D

Title: Re: TomP - Check It Out!
Post by: Heo on April 13, 2018, 06:20:02 PM

As we say here, the only thing on a Opel
that s not rusted out is the front crossmember ;D