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Old May 12, 2005 | 12:42 PM
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sadly, that is more complete than my understanding....
ouch
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Old May 12, 2005 | 01:36 PM
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I remember when I was barely at that level...
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Old May 12, 2005 | 02:39 PM
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awesome

reminds me of an episode of The Simpsons
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Old May 12, 2005 | 02:49 PM
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where did yall find this thing?

i looked in my storage area behind my seats and could not find it...

**** i must have no engine
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Old May 12, 2005 | 04:44 PM
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I got rid of my HOT BITS. No wonder I can get it tuned perfect.
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Old May 12, 2005 | 09:00 PM
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Hey, my engine has those things too
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Old May 12, 2005 | 11:03 PM
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Very creative and funny!
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Old Jun 7, 2005 | 07:43 PM
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What actually is the "hot pipe thing"?
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And I wasted all that $$ on a Helms manual.
Thanks, I needed that.
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Old Jun 7, 2005 | 08:55 PM
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I now have a much better understanding of how my car works,
thank you very much
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Old Jun 7, 2005 | 09:29 PM
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Mine dont look like that .......does that mean that its broke


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Old Jun 7, 2005 | 09:51 PM
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Originally Posted by adi4
Mine dont look like that .......does that mean that its broke



Yeppers....yours is shot......I doubt the town will come by and pick that up with your normal trash so I'll be by tomorrow night to get rid of that mess for ya.....
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Old Jun 7, 2005 | 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by chucks88
Yeppers....yours is shot......I doubt the town will come by and pick that up with your normal trash so I'll be by tomorrow night to get rid of that mess for ya.....

damn what a nice guy
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Old Jun 7, 2005 | 10:29 PM
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This needs to go into the tech tips and buyers guide.
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Old Jun 7, 2005 | 10:32 PM
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Originally Posted by kwik_ta
I like the shiny thing with the plastic ****
I've been calling it the wrong thing all this time.
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Boy Oz.... I can only guess one of your friends did this on a vegemite overdoes.
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Old Jun 8, 2005 | 06:27 AM
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No one noticed, isn't that car a RHD model? (AC is on the drivers side)
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Old Jun 8, 2005 | 01:31 PM
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It sure is.
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Old Jun 8, 2005 | 05:42 PM
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The saddest thing, among all of this great humor, is that is a GM-Goodwrench diagram commonly used at all Chevrolet service deparments...



Chris
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Old Jun 8, 2005 | 06:34 PM
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I'm printing this out on my laser printing thing and taping it to the underside of the hood for future reference.
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