Leeann wrote:
The phenolic bowls do warp or crack, but not due to heat. You can hit one with a torch and it won’t get hot (told to me by my old parts guy who knows these old rigs - he said a salesman used to go around and do just that, then toss the bowl to someone after pretending it was a hot potato).
They warp or crack due to overtightening of the screws.
Oh, I stand corrected. So, people ruined them by trying to compensate for old or inferior gaskets.
Edit: You also answered a question that was bothering me. I know plastics and knew phenolic plastic was heat and electricity resistant. (It's usually thermosetting.)
Makes sense, I watch a young Army troop effectively destroy a two year old transmission while trying to stop a pan gasket leak. He stripped half the pan bolt holes before he decide he should ask someone.
