[DeTomaso] MANGUSTA ZF FLUID VOLUME / Dick Ruzzin

[Julian Kift]

There's rational to that Imperial pint; it being derived from an Imperial gallon which is 10 pounds of water at 62F and a pint is 1/8 a gallon or 20 fl oz

 

The irony of course is that it is now illegal to use the pint in the UK excepting as a drinkin' mans measure for milk, beer and cider. Where obviously 20 floz is more welcome than a teeny US pint would be ;>)

 

To prove that it is a drinkin' mans measure a Scottish pint (or Joug) of olde is equal to 3 Imperial pints.

 

Julian

 

 
> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:23:12 -0400
> To: Dickruzzindesign at aol.com; Detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] MANGUSTA ZF FLUID VOLUME / Dick Ruzzin
> 
> 
> In a message dated 9/10/09 19 48 6, dickruzzindesign at aol.com writes:
> 
> 
> > J,
> > That number as it was printed is wrong, or the second half is, so do not 
> > use it.
> > This is how it is printed, 2.1 liters is 3.5 pints.
> > 
> > A conversion to quarts shows that 2.1 liters is 4.44 pints.
> > 
> 
> The book is actually right on both counts--and you can blame the damn 
> Brits!
> 
> After they came up with a perfectly good system of measurement in medieval 
> days, based on hard, fast, rigid standards like the length of a king's foot, 
> etc., and we adopted it, they up and went and changed everything on us.
> 
> Remember that the Brits conjured up this notion of the "Imperial gallon" 
> after we here in the USA had been happily using their old gallon for 
> years--they threw that curve ball at us in 1824.
> 
> (They were probably still pissed off about getting their butts handed to 
> them in the war of 1812). 
> 
> Well, a pint is defined as 1/8 of a gallon. So a British pint is 1/8 of 
> an Imperial gallon, which is a bigger gallon than our gallon.
> 
> 2.1 liters is 3.69 UK pints, or 4.43 US pints. Although the ZF manual 
> doesn't specify, it's written by/for a European audience, using English pints.
> 
> Going by liters is the safest thing to do--the Dash-2 manual calls for 3.5 
> liters (approximately) with no associated pint value, while you say the 
> Dash-1 manual (for inverted gearboxes) calls for 2.1 liters/3.5 pints. The 
> Dash-0 manual (or more accurately, the dash-less manual) doesn't seem to have a 
> value specified at all--just fill it until it reaches the appropriate mark 
> on the dipstick.
> 
> (The first-gen ZF used a dipstick as part of the vent assembly on the top; 
> filling was to be done from the side. The second-generation gearbox as 
> used in the Mangusta apparently did away with the dipstick in favor of a level 
> hole in the back cover, and the inverted setup uses the old side fill hole 
> as the level hole in the Pantera, etc.)
> 
> Mike
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