Love the smell of gear oil and marine grease

[Redding Boater]

Well, I have been resealing and installing a new impellar kit on my OMC stern drive 800 and I walked out into the garage this morning and the garage smelled like marine grease and oil. I gotta say, it almost smells as good as smoke on the water from a 2 stroke outboard .

 

[sam60]

Don't smell it too often. I once met a guy that got addicted to brake fluid. He said wasn't worried about it because he could stop at any time. :drum:

 

[alldodge]

Don't smell it too often. I once met a guy that got addicted to brake fluid. He said wasn't worried about it because he could stop at any time. :drum:

Good one

 

[jakedaawg]

Don't smell it too often. I once met a guy that got addicted to brake fluid. He said wasn't worried about it because he could stop at any time. :drum:

Awesome

 

[jimmbo]

Gear oil has a smell that is as repulsive as sewage

 

[sam60]

Gear oil has a smell that is as repulsive as sewage

Friction modifiier sweetens it up a bit.

 

[Scott Danforth]

Shouldnt smell it in a properly sealed outdrive.

Then again, i can identify most automotive fluids by taste and how they sting in the eyes

 

[jimmbo]

The stuff stinks, the moment the bottle is opened. Get a drop on your hands, they will stink for days, soap/ hand cleaners don't remove it. Straight Clorox, or other chlorine bleach, poured on to the hands and rubbed together does reduce the smell

 

[sam60]

ATF+4 tastes bad.

 

[fishrdan]

Gear oil has a smell that is as repulsive as sewage

Yeah-but, it will keep you from going bald!.... In my teens I dumped a whole pan of it on my head/hair, and into my 50's, I still don't have any signs of losing hair.

(Or maybe it's genetics?.........)

 

[Redding Boater]

Entire 800 series stern drive is now all sealed up. Yes the old milky lube did stink.

 

[sphelps]

Yeah-but, it will keep you from going bald!.... In my teens I dumped a whole pan of it on my head/hair, and into my 50's, I still don't have any signs of losing hair.

If this is true i'm gunna add it to my shampoo bottle !! :lol:
I don't mind a little stink if it keeps what is left of my hair in place ..

 

[bigdee]

I use to run into this guy around town that always smelled like gear oil. I asked him one day why he smelled like gear oil. He looked offended and told me it was because he worked on rear ends and if anything was wrong with that. Jokingly, I replied that I liked to work on rear ends too. He replied back "I thought so because you smell fishy".

 

[Redding Boater]

Hahahahaha