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Good luck Don I wish it was me
Jeff

the small orange should be a power supply for the lumbar pump in the seat
Jeff

I just purchased a 64 impala. I want to put on 16 inch tires. Does anyone know if there would be a problem with clearance?

The 64 you e-mailed me about has 17 inch wheels with a 1 1/2 inch  suspension drop.
No clearance problems

Bought it
Jeff

Going to go look at this car tomorrow
Need a car fix while I slave away on the A project
64 Impala (not SS) 74K original miles 2nd owner
283 with a powerglide, original paint and been updated to 4 wheel discs and lowered a couple inches
Asking 19500
What would you guys do or offer?
Jeff

While Jeff wasn't a hotrodder his music is ours.
First it was Boyd then Buttera. I hope this is where it stops for awhile.
It's been a tough last week.

While my guitar gently weeps
I never knew that cancer was the reason the Jeff had lost his eyesight
I always assumed that he had been born blind
Never knew of his battles until he passed away, easily one of the best guitar players in the world never mind he did it with no sight
Godspeed
Jeff

On my roadster I went down through the kick panels on both frt corners of the car
I then ran the light harnesses through a grommet into the frame rails and up to the lights and the electric fan on the LH rail and the lights  on the rh rail.
I also split off the harness below the LH kick panel and ran a loom up the back of the trans using the bellhousing bolts to hold the harness with loom clips for the engine harness
I'm pretty anal when it comes to wiring and it has to be neat
the engine harness came up the LR and split to the dist,coil and o/p sender and then went forward along the valve cover rail to the alt. and cooling senders (2)
Sorry i don't have pics but I sold it last year to finance the new one
Jeff

maybe Sue is poisoning you
nice knowing ya
Jeff

like him or not he did a lot for rodding
Always sucks when someone goes too soon
Jeff

Coming from a guy that has never smoked in his life I applaud you!
Best of luck Frank, I know it can't be easy just from watching so many people struggle
I'm sure you can do it
Not only that think of all the cash you're saving
Keep us up to date
Jeff

Well keep in mind that as I write this I'm recovering from the worst 7 days of flu I ever had
Hell Yes I'd move to Florida!!
I even  broke from the race today to watch golf cause it looked so nice with the palm trees and grass
not 4 feet of snow
screw the gators ,humidity and population.
I'll take the beaches,seafood,beaches and also the beaches
Ravyn in my opinion you're a lucky man
Jeff

stupid  thought,I don't think so.
Apparently GM has always known about the gelling it just wasn't an issue until they started building up the extreme heat with the pulsing of the TCC and the clutches.
The reprogram was released Sat. so every diesel will have to come in for it.
I've now got 28 Allisons on order so it should be a busy March
Good thing I went off flat rate
Jeff

Apparently the Transynd has a pour point of -46 whereas the Dexron is -45
Not a big enough difference to justify the extra cost (according to GM)
You should see this fluid when it comes out of the lower cooler line
It's got the consistency of Jello
The upper cooler line and the trans will have clean normal dexron in it
The torque is blue as is the stator support and the oil pump is normally split in half from the heat buildup.
Jeff

No there isn't a bulletin as of yet but I see one coming
The Dmaxes are actually very good in extreme cold and they all have block heaters.
I've started them up in -35C on the lot without being plugged in and they actually start quite good
They use pilot injection so that a very small spray at hi pressure (40 thousand PSI) is injected on cold start and that makes it very easy to light off the diesel
Thats the reason a Dmax will not rattle and bang on startup like the Fords and Dodges
The trans problem has only happened when the guys have left them running all night.
Come out in the morning and the truck is warm but no trans left.
Too bad too cause up till now the Allison has had a bulletproof reputation.
Jeff

A bit O/T but interesting for Crosley and guys with new GM's
With the -40C weather last week a interesting problem cropped up with 06-08 GM Duramaxes
Last Tuesday 3 08's were towed in with inop. trans.
Wed saw 4 more towed to our dealer and we now have a total of 18 inmovable trucks.
Some dealers have had upwards of 40-50 come in.
Seems a "smart" engineer decided to toy with the programming of the new Dmaxes
The owner is able to engage a high idle on the truck in cold weather via steering wheel controls to help with a faster warmup
GM decided to engage the torque converter clutch on high idle and stall out the torque converter thus making heat and transfering the heat through the trans cooler to the rad.
As it turns out he new dexron is gelling at -40 and plugging the cooler thus smoking the torque converter and damaging the pump and input shafts
repair estimates are $5600 per truck vs $3800 for a reman trans.
problem is theres none available and it looks like a 5-6 week wait for trans parts and the same for a reman to show up
Can you say POed customers?
Jeff