Comments on: A Valiant thought

By: dakota

dakota — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:51:25 +0000

Cars that are slated for repair that run off the end of the line, still, today, get to the dealer with some really gross and obvious defects.

When i worked for Ford, I remember a Freestyle that was shipped to a dealer, missing the entire front fascia. So no grill, no bumper, no foglamps….and it was “missed”.

Plenty of MKS’s and Tauri have somehow made it out of Chicago with wrong color reverse sensors, (like red on a white car), missing emblems, and countless other items. It still happens today, as long as the employees are not held responsible what do they care? It’s only a reality check when there is no longer a job.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:31:46 +0000

On most Mopar engines of the period, you could replace a valve lifter WITHOUT removing the intake manifold. Chrysler’s had so much room around the pushrod that a special tool could be inserted that grabbed the lifter around a machined cut at the top of the lifter and allowed its withdrawal. Oddly, I think I changed a thousand lifters in various engines, only had to do it once or twice on a Mopar.

_{»crosslinked«}

By: DaveAdmin

DaveAdmin — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:40:33 +0000

A few vendors at Carlisle were selling replacement firewall sound deadener at $25. I’m more concerned about heat transfer than noise transfer. That said, thanks for pointing out the comparisons, I didn’t know what the others were like… though my Camaro was usually a service nightmare.