Eight Facts About Warming Up Your Car in Winter

DanT talks with big multiple syllable words.....that is neat.

 

If your going to insult me it would be alot funnier if it didnt sound like somthing out of a lord of the rings book...

 

Wow! Thank you. Comparing my writing to J.R.R. Tolkien. I'm ... well... thank you.

 

LOL.. but really you didnt steal that from an episode of the Big Bang Theory did you?

 

You are one well read person sir. I'm not making fun of you in anyway but what is a "virtual Gibraltar" the dictionary definition for Gibraltar I found was " British dependency near the southern tip of the Iberian peninsula, at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar; pop. 28,000" Maybe its because I am young but it doesn't make sense to me. I want to use Gibraltar and intransigence in an English essay next term haha. Let me guess English teacher or Librarian?

 

Just so you know. One day you will realize that global warming was all a load of bullshit. It might be months from now, it might be 10 years from now. But one day you will know it. Some people simply aren't as smart as others.

 

Steal what? The only Big Bang theory I know about has to do with the beginning of the universe. I didn't know it was episodic. That's a new one on me.

 

Thank you. The 'Rock of Gibraltar' has long been used as a symbol of strength and impregnability and so forth. I don't know if The Prudential insurance company still uses it in their ads, but if you google the phrase above you'll get a better answer.

 

Thank you. You have provided an excellent example of the truth of your fifth sentence.

 

i guess its just a personal preference kind of thing but i still do it. and the reason i do it is this...

a standard in the C-130 community of the air force, is when our planes are exposed to freezing temperatures, and we are starting our engines, we are required to allow our oil temps to rise to a temperature deemed within operating limits. they found out that when the planes were exposed to these temps and not warmed up properly, engine and propeller seals were being blown out and causing maintenance problems within the fleet. they found that allowing the oil temps to rise to operating limits, that these problems were mitigated. therefore saving the AF and taxpayers time and money thus allowing us to hack the mish!!

so you say it does no good. i say, if we use this practice on our planes, it's good enough for me!!

 

Okay thanks man. It makes more sense to me now. I guess I am probably too young to see that ad or Prudential Insurance doesn't advertise in Canada. From the context clues I thought that Gibraltar had something to do with seclusion and isolation but it makes more sense now. I hope I get that phrase on a English test now

 

I was wrong. I was not easy to find much explaining why the Rock of Gibraltar is a symbol of strength.

I just remember it from TV ads in the 60's or so.

"Prudential's logo, The Rock of Gibraltar, is one of the most recognized corporate symbols in the world.[2] The use of the rock began after an advertising agent passed Laurel Hill, a volcanic neck, in Secaucus, New Jersey on a train in the 1890s.[3] The related slogans "Get a Piece of the Rock" and "Strength of Gibraltar" are also still quite widely associated with Prudential, though current advertising uses neither of these."

And to answer your question, no, I'm not an English teacher nor a librarian, just a little old country lawyer.

 

you're very much right in the fact of different engines. but the way in which they work is not much different at all. compresses air, uses an ignition source to fire that air, and the gas expelled is used for some type of propulsion. and you'd be surprised at how very similar these oils are to each other.

 

Speaking of Canada, here's an excellent article on 'The Rock' written by a guy named Canada.

http://www.avalanchepress.com/Gibraltar.php

 

Just guessing here, but this may be related to the cause of the Challenger disaster. As I recall, one of the theories on the cause of the disaster was frozen O-ring seals. I remember a group of men at a news conference debating this. While the debate went on, so the story goes, physicist Richard Feynman, saying nothing, dropped a small rubber O-ring into a glass of ice water. Then he took it out and hit it with a hammer, breaking it.

 

i think you may be right. and if i remember correctly, it was a seal to a fuel line or something of that sort. good catch man. i'll have to go back and read up on that.

 

But the oil does not work when it's cold. It only works properly when it's warmed up.

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/faq.php?faq=haas_articles

 

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