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DDDenny beat me to it on the GL4/GL5 fluids.
Early 70's (I know!) a Camaro came into the body shop of a dealership I worked at, hit hard in the rear. One year old car, insurance company had...
Well, a padded vinyl top put on a car with a lot of waves in the roof? Or two mag wheels on one side, two slightly different ones on the other...
His "kid" worked at that same station. Drifter type, came up from down south. I got fired because of him. He was caught dipping into our assigned...
Another car dealer story. Bit o/t as this happened in '73. Guy came into the parts department for a oil dipstick for a 73 full size car engine....
About 68-69 I worked at a Standard station. Down the road was a "we tote the note" lot, a one man band who did all his own work, body and paint...
Early in my car dealership parts department days a guy came in wanting a trunk key for the car he bought the day before. He had a registration...
You are right, something could have happened to the fuel system during the interm. Original poster, another question. Fuel cap vented or non vented?
Ok, so that takes care of that idea!
Maybe she felt rich in her own way? Being philosophical here I suppose.
One other question. Is this car a new build, first time running and driven or was it a repower of a car that ran ok before? I'm just thinking out...
Where did the fuel pump come from? Just wondering.
I'm going to sound stupid here because I have zero experience with Edelbrock carburetors. Are the primary and secondary jets the same physical...
Long story but parts quality seems to have gone down in the last ten years or so at least from my experience (for what that is worth) when I was a...
I'm probably wrong but what about fuel pump pressure?
In response to the photo that Swi66 posted of the 55 Buick on the guywire. It's all fun and games until you have removed two passed out drunks...
How well I remember those. There used to be a gauge to read key cut depths but the "good" parts and service techs could read cut depths without...
Fuel pump maybe?
I sold GM Performance Parts the last few years I was in the business. About the LS, nope and nope. Sure they have great HP potential but then you...
I never did like the nylon aluminum cam gears that GM used.Pontiac was the worst offender for failures. Chevy and Buick were not too bad but still...
Automakers used radio suppression wires for years with points and condensers.
I thought of something else. The mufflers on the donor cycle are not stock, can't really tell what they are. Your air cleaner is the stock H-D....
At least twice in all the years I worked in GM dealerships I saw vehicle orders get duplicated or worse. First time a Chevy dealer that I worked...
Nankin Township, present day incorporated as Westland Michigan.
ROADSTER1927 suggested a gear drive kit. That is an alternative if your crankshaft falls into less than .003 runout on the pinion end. Service...
Don't know how much of a Harley guy you are, I have some experience with them, was a part time H-D partsman and own a '02 TC myself. Two pieces...
I was the parts manager of a car and truck dealership in New Mexico. I found upstairs a couple of PNM (Public Service Co. of New Mexico)...
Merri-Five Hobbies, Livonia, The Pit Stop and Grand Prix in Farmington, Jerry's Hobbies, Plymouth. There was one on Seven Mile near Beech Daly in...
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