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St. Jude Donor '09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14-'15-'16-'17-'18-‘19-'20-'21-'22-'23-'24
I'd suggest you NOT bring that up when talking to Tom, as it obviously was painful. You don't want to cut off the flow of information. Play dumb and if HE brings it up, that's fine. Or is he now following this thread?
I'd suggest you NOT bring that up when talking to Tom, as it obviously was painful. You don't want to cut off the flow of information. Play dumb and if HE brings it up, that's fine. Or is he now following this thread?
No I don’t even want him to know anything about this thread.
Cleaning the underside will take some effort: The grease, I believe as the result of a leaky pinion seal is easy. The underside has a combination of undercoating and asphalt with tar, rubber and small gravel.
The small sheet metal screws can be a pain to remove.
The Phillips Head screws round out.
Only two would come out properly.
Next effort was to take the grinder and cut a slot. This worked great.
When that failed I ground off the head and then it was easy to push the clip/nut off the fiberglass.
Holt, there is a hand held impact tool with interchangeable inserts that does a good job on screw fasteners. I got mine at Sears, but I’ve seen them other places. Strike it with a hammer and it both impacts the screw and turns it a bit.
One of the debates with this car is the actual mileage. Based on the paperwork it is without a doubt a low 20,000 mile vehicle. Based on the exterior appearance the car looks like it may have 100,000 if not 200,000 miles.
Today, we finally got into the motor and we think we know the real answer. When we pull the valve covers there was pretty much zero sludge on the heads.
Inside the valve covers they were extremely clean.
We had a mechanic come and look at the old chassis and drive train to get his opinions.
He felt that it was not anywhere close to being a high mileage motor. When we pull the dipstick we knew the oil would be clean because it had been changed. We wiped it and it was like a brand new dipstick, no discoloration, and no lacquer finish.
12-20-2018, 06:30 PM
You guys are scaring me now! 
