RIP Great Pumpkin Off to the salvage yard she goes...
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Joined: 02-13-2006
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From: Detroit, MI
Oh hey I am very interested. I could use some interior parts. I am in Detroit, west side, near Dearborn. Where are you? If it is reasonable, I would love to come n' get it. Please don't tell me you scraped it already.
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Joined: 02-13-2006
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From: Detroit, MI
Oh great pumpkin, rise, rise from the pumpkin patch!
I could fix soooo many things. Given that all the thing broken on mine are not broken on yours. Actually, thats a good chance, lol.
Some of my damage is from dogs though. I do dog rescue.
I could fix soooo many things. Given that all the thing broken on mine are not broken on yours. Actually, thats a good chance, lol.
Some of my damage is from dogs though. I do dog rescue.
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Joined: 04-14-2010
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From: Wisconsin
Back in the day most engines didn't make it to 100,000 miles.
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From: Rogers City, Michigan
Hello
I am in Michigan. Rogers City. I need the the rear seat belts. Please let me know.
Boydie
I am in Michigan. Rogers City. I need the the rear seat belts. Please let me know.
Boydie
Spun a bearing last week. Been looking for a used 2.2 but they are hard to come by. I don't think it's going to be worth it to drop an engine in this 06 of mine. 250,750 miles on the vehicle. If I find a $500 used 2.2 with say 100K on it the car still has 250K. The shop I trust looked up "book time" and he is saying about 12 hours so about $1200 labor plus throw in $200 for extras and a $600 used drop in and I'm at 2,000 bucks. I just don't see the point in doing it really. NADA Clean trade in with 250K is only $2500. So sinking 2K into and "hope" that the tranny is not next just doesn't make sense. Unless my HHR friends can come up with a case to convince me that spending 2 grand is worth it, then off to the scrap yard it goes. I'm in Michigan so if anyone needs parts let me know.
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Joined: 06-26-2006
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From: San Bernardino, California
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From: Rogers City, Michigan
Sorry my post didn't make sense.
Many cars up to the 1950s, especially Chevy blue flame sixes, needed a valve job by 40-50,000 miles. Mostly because of leaded gas. Lead deposits burned the valves, especially if you used Ethyl. We used to have to clean the plugs 5-10,000 miles too.
Boydie
Many cars up to the 1950s, especially Chevy blue flame sixes, needed a valve job by 40-50,000 miles. Mostly because of leaded gas. Lead deposits burned the valves, especially if you used Ethyl. We used to have to clean the plugs 5-10,000 miles too.
Boydie
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From: San Bernardino, California
I'm 64. My 'back in the day' refers to the 60s on. That's when I started working on cars. Oldest cars I ever owned were a 1956 Pontiac and a 1958 Rambler. Everything else was 60s and up.
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Joined: 06-20-2011
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From: Savanna Illinois
My dad was a mechanic before the war. He cursed the overhead valve engines because you couldn't get much more than 30,000 out of one before you at least had to do the valves on one. He said the flat heads held up better.
And yes, leaded gas did cause carbon build up in the engines but the unleaded 'white gas' at the time would cause more valve wear. It was pretty normal for my dad to use an oxyacetylene torch to clean the carbon out the combustion chamber without removing the heads from time to time.
It was a stop gap at best but seemed to work pretty well.
I always kinda liked lapping valves. Didn't care much for the disassemble and reassembly though.
For me it was always better if someone else had taken the engine out of the car for me, like dad did a lot. Once he had an engine out or at least apart he would give me the heads to clean up and lap the valves.
This started about the time I was around 12 and continued until dad died when I was 17
And yes, leaded gas did cause carbon build up in the engines but the unleaded 'white gas' at the time would cause more valve wear. It was pretty normal for my dad to use an oxyacetylene torch to clean the carbon out the combustion chamber without removing the heads from time to time.
It was a stop gap at best but seemed to work pretty well.
I always kinda liked lapping valves. Didn't care much for the disassemble and reassembly though.
For me it was always better if someone else had taken the engine out of the car for me, like dad did a lot. Once he had an engine out or at least apart he would give me the heads to clean up and lap the valves.
This started about the time I was around 12 and continued until dad died when I was 17
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Joined: 04-14-2010
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From: Wisconsin
In the 60s and 70s, prior to the long life oils, if you changed oil religiously at 2,000 miles you could make them last but most people didn't. The learning curve on aluminum components and the change from asbestos gaskets caused a lot of problems in the 70s and 80s Roller tappets, hardened valve seats, fuel injection and long life oils are the major reasons that engines last longer these days.
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Joined: 06-26-2006
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From: San Bernardino, California
In the 60s and 70s, prior to the long life oils, if you changed oil religiously at 2,000 miles you could make them last but most people didn't. The learning curve on aluminum components and the change from asbestos gaskets caused a lot of problems in the 70s and 80s Roller tappets, hardened valve seats, fuel injection and long life oils are the major reasons that engines last longer these days.
