Thread: For Don Shilady

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Jerry that's a good one! Actually my wife is really a great gal and I owe her a LOT but she did buy me a cell phone and when I go on an "unauthorized run" I usually get a call saying "Where are you?".

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Well we are past the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere so the days will start to get longer but here we will have to get past March here before I can take the side curtains off and put on the wind wings. I am writing now to ask 36 Sedan for details of his drive train: engine, transmission, rear gear ratio and rear tires just to see what gives him 13 mpg while having fun. Just to give him company my car has been on the hook twice in the last year. First when I reved the engine uphill on an ramp in third gear and the heater hose blew off leaving me stuck on a major Interstate. That was cured by a longer barbed tube fitting. The second time was more mysterious when the top part of the coil cracked due to a faulty (my mistake) mount. That was fixed with a new coil and a better mount. The cracked coil was a mystery because the engine would run and then it wouldn't, then it would etc. until the crack was noticed.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder