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Automotive News & Views Memories Of The Old GM And Its Cars
383 messages, Last post on Nov 12, 2009 at 5:33 PM
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Replying to: isellhondas (Jun 05, 2009 5:35 am) I find it amusing that as recently as the late 90s Honda's still needed valve jobs, etc. |
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Replying to: hpmctorque (Jun 06, 2009 5:48 am) Id agree...but other than the select vehicles that require it, I wonder how much of the auto population is using it vs traditional oil. Without researching, my gut says its far from mainstream. I realize I could be 100% incorrect here.
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Jun 06, 2009 5:52 am) Was your 'bird a Formula( dual scoops on hood)? I posted a pic of my 71 'bird a few pages back.
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Replying to: cadillacmike (Jun 06, 2009 6:00 am) Just added an extra quart? Good GM engineering? Why did GM engineering not get it right the First time with the castings? Over last couple decades, have heard numerous times of people complaining that their GMs need a quart of oil every 1K-1.5K miles AND there was no leaking. When they go back to dealers to complain, service person says that that oil consumption is within normal parameters and nothing is done.
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Replying to: blh7068 (Jun 06, 2009 6:15 am) Yes. It was medium blue metallic in color. Also had a 71 Trans-Am 455 HO and 68 Firebird 400 all at same time.
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Jun 06, 2009 6:24 am) Wow- all remain highly desirable today...especially the TA. Do you still have any of them? |
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Jun 06, 2009 5:52 am) engineering(?) by GM. Actually it was done to quiet the noise from metal gears and the chains. The same people unhappy when the nylon (not plastic IIRC) gear wore were the ones who would complain about gear noise.  I understand being unhappy with a failure, but they usually gave forewaring. A Ford 351W I owned gave some signs of individual teeth having worn on the one gear. Later the chain slipped. I believe that was the car that left me saying I'd never own another Ford. Regrettably I won one in a contest a few years later. But I digress from the topic and in lieu of a reminder from our gentle hosts, I'll slip my timing chain a notch on the worn gear to ask: Were both gears nylon or just one of the timing gears? OR GM could have used a timing belt like some other cars and required replacement every 60K miles for a few hundred bucks. 
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Replying to: blh7068 (Jun 06, 2009 6:13 am) Friends had a Ford Escort back in the 80's and they lost a nylon gear or sprocket before 50k. Left them shaking their heads when they discovered Ford was putting "plastic" gears in their engines.
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Replying to: steve_ (Jun 06, 2009 7:19 am) |
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Replying to: cadillacmike (Jun 06, 2009 6:00 am) Absoultly not true! No truth to that at all. Ask any Honda mechanic. Sometimes when little old ladies drove them too gently, carbon would build up under the valve seats (any car will do this). Sometimes we need to do a "Carbon Blast" which blows these carbon deposits out. As far as your "slight" oil leak, if you happen to live in So. Calif you can check out my buddies driveway where his 1994 De Ville used to sit before it's untimly demise. It leaked pretty bad as the leak continued to get worse. According to some shops I know the problem was pretty common. Please confirm that 1998 was the year they made the revision. My friend loved that car (so did I) and he wants another one but he doesn't want to face the oil leak situation again. |
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