[DeTomaso] Have you checked your ZF juice lately?

[Charles Engles]

Dear Charlie,


             Speaking for all the other Pantera owners who religiously
change the ZF gear oil yearly and on schedule, I think that you can light
the fuse and launch for LeMans with confidence.   Your penance for confessed
minor sin is to change the ZF gear oil every year regularly and on schedule.
To help you remember the date, let's pick the date of April 15th.   All
taxpayers can easily remember that day.


                        Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles



-----Original Message-----
From: DeTomaso [mailto:detomaso-bounces at poca.com] On Behalf Of Charles
McCall
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 2:04 PM
To: 'thomas'
Cc: detomaso at poca.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Have you checked your ZF juice lately?

No, I'm not saying that. Maybe I should be more clear. 

I drained the ZF.
I put the plug back in. 
I filled the ZF with new oil
I poured the old oil in the new oil bottles, and found that I only filled
2,5 bottles, indicating that I only had 2,5 liters of oil in there before

-----Original Message-----
From: thomas [mailto:thomas at hax.se] 
Sent: sábado, 10 de mayo de 2014 21:01
To: Charles McCall
Cc: <detomaso at poca.com>
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Have you checked your ZF juice lately?

Are you saying you filled up the ZF as opposed to replacing the oil?

Thomas

> 10 maj 2014 kl. 19:42 skrev Charles McCall <charlesmccall at gmail.com>:
> 
>   When was the last time you checked the level of the oil in your ZF?
> 
> 
>   I check my engine oil regularly, and my coolant level. But I have to
>   admit that I don't check the level of the oil in my ZF, well, at all
>   between changes.
> 
> 
>   I'm doing spring maintenance, as next weekend there is a Supercar event
>   4 hours away that I'll be attending, and in less than 2 months there's
>   a week-long car tour before Le Mans Classic, a long ways from home.
> 
> 
>   To be honest, I don't remember when I last changed the oil in my
>   gearbox, but I know it was not last year. Possibly not the previous
>   year either. Let's just say it's been a while.
> 
> 
>   Anyway, I bought 3 liters of oil. I filled the gearbox with the 3
>   liters and it hasn't yet begun to dribble out the hole, indicating that
>   it isn't full yet. Wondering how much would be left over in the oil
>   drain pan, I went to fill up the three empty liter containers, but the
>   third container only took about half - indicating that I've been
>   driving around with 2,5 liters in the ZF for who-knows-how-long.
> 
> 
>   With all the horror stories about how expensive ZF repairs are, this is
>   pretty silly on my part. Anyone else that hasn't checked their oil
>   level and is driving around fat, dumb, and happy while quietly doing
>   ungood things to their 'box?
> 
> 
>   Something to think about...
> 
> 
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