What happened to Eric Allred?

I read something to the effect that he was going to work for
Aircooled.net in October 2002 or close to that.

"Jim Ed" > wrote in message
...
> I read something to the effect that he was going to work for
> Aircooled.net in October 2002 or close to that.

He did... he doesn't work there anymore... He is active on cal-look.com and
thesamba.com

Eric worked for us for 4 years, then got his HVAC license and does
that as his occupation.

He works 100' from us now, and we have lunch a couple times a year,
and I still consider him a great friend. He's doing very well.

On 10/27/2010 1:53 PM, AircooledJohn wrote:
> Eric worked for us for 4 years, then got his HVAC license and does
> that as his occupation.
>


That's all well and good that he got his HVAC license, but does he know
how to retrofit AC into a VW? :-D
Now that would really impress me!

Randall wrote:
> On 10/27/2010 1:53 PM, AircooledJohn wrote:
>> Eric worked for us for 4 years, then got his HVAC license and does
>> that as his occupation.
>>
>
>
> That's all well and good that he got his HVAC license, but does he know
> how to retrofit AC into a VW? :-D
> Now that would really impress me!
>


I have done a bunch of 911's, I don't think that would be too hard to
apply to a VW

Jan

On Oct 27, 3:53*pm, AircooledJohn > wrote:
> Eric worked for us for 4 years, then got his HVAC license and does
> that as his occupation.
>
> He works 100' from us now, and we have lunch a couple times a year,
> and I still consider him a great friend. He's doing very well.

Does he still have his aircooled VW's that he used 5W30 oil in?
I was wondering if they are still running after using that weight of
oil.
TIA!

"Jim Ed" > wrote in message
...
> On Oct 27, 3:53 pm, AircooledJohn > wrote:
>> Eric worked for us for 4 years, then got his HVAC license and does
>> that as his occupation.
>>
>> He works 100' from us now, and we have lunch a couple times a year,
>> and I still consider him a great friend. He's doing very well.
>
> Does he still have his aircooled VW's that he used 5W30 oil in?
> I was wondering if they are still running after using that weight of
> oil.
> TIA!

PM him on thesamba or cal-look... 5w30 is fine, I ran 10w30 for many years,
and now am running 5w20 for the past few months... no issues...

On 28/10/10 17:47, Jim Ed wrote:
> On Oct 27, 3:53 pm, > wrote:
>> Eric worked for us for 4 years, then got his HVAC license and does
>> that as his occupation.
>>
>> He works 100' from us now, and we have lunch a couple times a year,
>> and I still consider him a great friend. He's doing very well.
>
> Does he still have his aircooled VW's that he used 5W30 oil in?
> I was wondering if they are still running after using that weight of
> oil.
> TIA!

Any modern oil is presumably good enough to lubricate Beetle engine, at
least as long as it's stock and driver bothers to change it time to time.

"Best oil available" is a different thing and I'd rather not go into that
discussion again.
--
Tuomas - VWs:'63 typ14, '65 typ34 & '61 typ2

On Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:17:48 +0200, Tuomas > wrote:

> On 28/10/10 17:47, Jim Ed wrote:
>> On Oct 27, 3:53 pm, > wrote:
>>> Eric worked for us for 4 years, then got his HVAC license and does
>>> that as his occupation.
>>>
>>> He works 100' from us now, and we have lunch a couple times a year,
>>> and I still consider him a great friend. He's doing very well.
>>
>> Does he still have his aircooled VW's that he used 5W30 oil in?
>> I was wondering if they are still running after using that weight of
>> oil.
>> TIA!
>
> Any modern oil is presumably good enough to lubricate Beetle engine, at
> least as long as it's stock and driver bothers to change it time to time.
>
> "Best oil available" is a different thing and I'd rather not go into
> that discussion again.

That does not change the fact the engine was designed with one particular
viscosity in mind, that being W30 for summer driving, altering in extreme
heat and cold.

J.
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