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Boy!!  Where do we get these "healers".  My son is an auto technician with Chevrolet.  He’s got his degree in automotive tech and continues with his education as cars get more complex.  HIS doctor told him… "You’re pretty smart for a mechanic."   Needless to say he’s still doc shopping. Do you think ASHM could make the Best Seller List if we compiled anecdotal accounts of our worst office visits?  Chrissy, you can be the first to submit your loser! Liz

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I live in Elizabethtown KY.  About 20 miles from Ft Knox.  It’s about 1hr or just a little more to Bowling Green.  It would be a dream come true.(iv infusion)   I have been without any meds other than triptans for like 50 days now. My longtime neuro closed his office practice in DEC but continued to fill scripts till Jan. (this is such a long story, stop if you need too) My Dad is an investigator for the state medical licensenure (sp) board in Western KY.  So, i asked him to check out the three docs in our town.  Two have current litigation pending (no details) and the third (who I went to see) had a case for patient abuse (physical) dismissed against him.  Great choices I know.  Well, Dr Oropilla did nothing but YELL about my previous doc. They had been neighbors and didn’t get along.  No, he never worked with him, and did not know how his treatment plans worked.  He also told me that he would never prescribe butabital and he had no clue why anyone would.  He did not understand why I rotated my triptans between migraines.  He told me that the ocipital nerve blocks that I have had in the past (and worked great) were inefectual for my "type" of migraine and he would not give me an order for any.  Then  he ended the hour long torture by telling me that If i were to seek treatment at the hospital for my migraines, then I would be labeled a drug user.  What an asshole.  The only question he did answer, was to tell me that he did not suffer from migraines.  I pretty much need you to walk in my shoes to understand me…know what I mean? And while I am on a roll, he told me I was fat…not overweight…fat. OMG…It must have just snuck up on me while I was waiting in your make shift office. I thought that was the final cherry on my little rude sundae. Chris

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I live in Elizabethtown KY.  About 20 miles from Ft Knox.  It’s about 1hr or just a little more to Bowling Green.  It would be a dream come true.(iv infusion)   I have been without any meds other than triptans for like 50 days now. My longtime neuro closed his office practice in DEC but continued to fill scripts till Jan. (this is such a long story, stop if you need too) My Dad is an investigator for the state medical licensenure (sp) board in Western KY.  So, i asked him to check out the three docs in our town.  Two have current litigation pending (no details) and the third (who I went to see) had a case for patient abuse (physical) dismissed against him.  Great choices I know.  Well, Dr Oropilla did nothing but YELL about my previous doc. They had been neighbors and didn’t get along.  No, he never worked with him, and did not know how his treatment plans worked.  He also told me that he would never prescribe butabital and he had no clue why anyone would.  He did not understand why I rotated my triptans between migraines.  He told me that the ocipital nerve blocks that I have had in the past (and worked great) were inefectual for my "type" of migraine and he would not give me an order for any.  Then  he ended the hour long torture by telling me that If i were to seek treatment at the hospital for my migraines, then I would be labeled a drug user.   What an asshole.  The only question he did answer, was to tell me that he did not suffer from migraines.  I pretty much need you to walk in my shoes to understand me…know what I mean? And while I am on a roll, he told me I was fat…not overweight…fat. OMG…It must have just snuck up on me while I was waiting in your make shift office. I thought that was the final cherry on my little rude sundae. Chris

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I will let you all know.  My appt is 02MAY05.  I am seeing her because my "new" neuro refused to treat me.  He told me has has no success with patients like "me".  Whatever that meant.  He told me to try Lexington. It just sucks because its 80 miles from my house.

I’d go if it weren’t a bizillion miles from my house. I’m north of Toronto. She sounds like a dream come true. IV infusion suite so you don’t have to go to the ER? FINALLY someone who understands…sorry you’re so far away too. I will keep you informed.  There is so little in the way of good treatment centers in KY (that I am aware of).

Good luck Chris. Where are you? I have great-nieces and nephews in the Bowling Green area. (Smith’s Grove.) Dana

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I will let you all know.  My appt is 02MAY05.  I am seeing her because my "new" neuro refused to treat me.  He told me has has no success with patients like "me".  Whatever that meant.  He told me to try Lexington.  It just sucks because its 80 miles from my house. I will keep you informed.  There is so little in the way of good treatment centers in KY (that I am aware of). Thanks, Chris

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Has anyone see this doctor or have any information about her? Thanks, Chris

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Has anyone see this doctor or have any information about her? Thanks, Chris

Found this: http://www.uky.edu/PR/News/050421_headache_center.htm Sounds promising for those who live in that area, especially the fact that they’ll even give you a treatment that would normally involve the ER. ~Sage —-== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com – Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==—- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups —-= East and West-Coast Server Farms – Total Privacy via Encryption =—-

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Has anyone see this doctor or have any information about her? Thanks, Chris Found this: http://www.uky.edu/PR/News/050421_headache_center.htm Sounds promising for those who live in that area, especially the fact that they’ll even give you a treatment that would normally involve the ER. ~Sage

I just went to the site, read the stuff and saw the picture.  I swear she was at UCSF under Vicious Lord Raskin while i was seeing him.  He used to allow certain students in on his appts, and i swear she was one of them. I remember the faces of the students cuz i was always so relieved to see that they were there.  He was always gracious and courteous while they were observing.  He also allowed them to ask me questions (i’d told him that was hunky-dory) and he also allowed them to scope my eyes (apparently there is scar tissue behind my left from the surgery.) Anywho, i would favor her for having studied neuro at UCSF….she will know more than the average bear about migraine and the meds to try. Good luck, Chris!   And PLEASE, let us know how your appt. went!!!! Deep peace, Lavon

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I will let you all know.  My appt is 02MAY05.  I am seeing her because my "new" neuro refused to treat me.  He told me has has no success with patients like "me".  Whatever that meant.  He told me to try Lexington. It just sucks because its 80 miles from my house. I will keep you informed.  There is so little in the way of good treatment centers in KY (that I am aware of). Thanks, Chris

OH NO Chrissy, How awful! I can relate to that. My old neuro. after many unsucessful attempts at treating me told me that he was afraid he was going to have to send me on my way. He was a little bit of a jerk about it. He then felt bad for me, and so then he did my paperwork for me to get disability {the drs. portion of} , we had to get the rest of it done,of course. I’m what they call "a difficult patient to treat" So you are probably one as well. He problably didnt mean it to come out the wrong way, then again I could be wrong. As there are many drs./specialists out there that dont know their’ @ss from a hole in the ground. I sure hope you get treated the best as possible in the future. BTW FWIW My neuro I currently see is 3 hours away from me. sigh. MM  {Migraine Momma}

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GREAT!  Thank you for the update, Chris!!! I think hope of that kind is worth much more than monetary value…. deep peace, Lavon

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Just wanted to update on my visit to Dr. Tucker and the UK Headache Clinic in Lexington. I had no idea what "clinic" meant in this particular setting. Apparently it meant that everyone showed up at one time and you were seen in the order in which you signed in.  We got there about 10:30 (appt was at 11am,  person who made the appt told me to be there by 10:30 to fill out paperwork) and saw the Dr at 1pm.  I saw the nurse first, Nadine.  She was great.  Asked detailed questions about my migraines, any meds that I had taken, which ones worked and the ones that didn’t.  Dr. Tucker was fab.  Very interested in my migraines and how they started, what the trigers were, what was I doing to control them. She gave me Celebrex, Amitriptyline, Clonzapam, and Maxalt.  I had good success with Vioxx in the past so the thought the Celebrex would be a good alternative. She asked me about the Topamax.  I explained that I was up to 400 mg a day and that it just stopped working, and that I couldn’t deal with the tingling and my hair falling out. She asked me if i wanted to try Botox.  She said to call her back in ten days to see if the ins co would pay for it.  It’s 800 bucks.  She did write me an order for the occipital nerve blocks.  That worked wonders for me in the past.  She asked me to wait though until she found out about the Botox. All in all a good visit.  I don’t think I would ever use the infusion treatment they offer.  It was 170 miles round trip for me to go up there.  I could never drive that far with a raging migraine. She understood that. FWIW, I would drive up there again to see her. Chris

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Just wanted to update on my visit to Dr. Tucker and the UK Headache Clinic in Lexington. I had no idea what "clinic" meant in this particular setting. Apparently it meant that everyone showed up at one time and you were seen in the order in which you signed in.  We got there about 10:30 (appt was at 11am,  person who made the appt told me to be there by 10:30 to fill out paperwork) and saw the Dr at 1pm.  I saw the nurse first, Nadine.  She was great.  Asked detailed questions about my migraines, any meds that I had taken, which ones worked and the ones that didn’t.  Dr. Tucker was fab.  Very interested in my migraines and how they started, what the trigers were, what was I doing to control them. She gave me Celebrex, Amitriptyline, Clonzapam, and Maxalt.  I had good success with Vioxx in the past so the thought the Celebrex would be a good alternative. She asked me about the Topamax.  I explained that I was up to 400 mg a day and that it just stopped working, and that I couldn’t deal with the tingling and my hair falling out. She asked me if i wanted to try Botox.  She said to call her back in ten days to see if the ins co would pay for it.  It’s 800 bucks.  She did write me an order for the occipital nerve blocks.  That worked wonders for me in the past.  She asked me to wait though until she found out about the Botox. All in all a good visit.  I don’t think I would ever use the infusion treatment they offer.  It was 170 miles round trip for me to go up there.  I could never drive that far with a raging migraine. She understood that. FWIW, I would drive up there again to see her.   Chris

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Wow Chris. Sounds like a great place. I found a press release about her and the clinic on the web. Wish I lived closer. Keep us abreast of your progress. Joy ) http://www.uky.edu/PR/News/050421_headache_center.htm – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – GREAT!  Thank you for the update, Chris!!! I think hope of that kind is worth much more than monetary value…. deep peace, Lavon Just wanted to update on my visit to Dr. Tucker and the UK Headache Clinic in Lexington. I had no idea what "clinic" meant in this particular setting. Apparently it meant that everyone showed up at one time and you were seen in the order in which you signed in.  We got there about 10:30 (appt was at 11am,  person who made the appt told me to be there by 10:30 to fill out paperwork) and saw the Dr at 1pm.  I saw the nurse first, Nadine.  She was great.  Asked detailed questions about my migraines, any meds that I had taken, which ones worked and the ones that didn’t.  Dr. Tucker was fab.  Very interested in my migraines and how they started, what the trigers were, what was I doing to control them. She gave me Celebrex, Amitriptyline, Clonzapam, and Maxalt.  I had good success with Vioxx in the past so the thought the Celebrex would be a good alternative. She asked me about the Topamax.  I explained that I was up to 400 mg a day and that it just stopped working, and that I couldn’t deal with the tingling and my hair falling out. She asked me if i wanted to try Botox.  She said to call her back in ten days to see if the ins co would pay for it.  It’s 800 bucks.  She did write me an order for the occipital nerve blocks.  That worked wonders for me in the past.  She asked me to wait though until she found out about the Botox. All in all a good visit.  I don’t think I would ever use the infusion treatment they offer.  It was 170 miles round trip for me to go up there.  I could never drive that far with a raging migraine. She understood that. FWIW, I would drive up there again to see her. Chris

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(whine filter alert!) I took delivery of my new 2005 Chevrolet Optra Wagon (for those in the US, this is the same vehicle as the Suzuki Forenza Wagon).  While I like the MP3 player in the dash, I want to install a Kenwood deck with RDS and CD text. Now, try going to just about anywhere in my glorious city for a harness for this car.  East Hamilton Radio is useless (and they’re the best place for just about anything electronic outside of Toronto), Future Shop are staffed by idiots, and Canadian Tire have never even heard of this vehicle. I understand that Daewoo cars are somewhat rare in North America, but if GM is marketing a vehicle here (Aveo comes to mind), I’d think that stereo harnesses should be slightly less rare than they are. And no, Crutchfield will not ship anything to Canada. Vuarra Vuarra Quid quid latine dictum sit altum videtur. (That which is said in Latin sounds profound.)

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – (whine filter alert!) I took delivery of my new 2005 Chevrolet Optra Wagon (for those in the US, this is the same vehicle as the Suzuki Forenza Wagon).  While I like the MP3 player in the dash, I want to install a Kenwood deck with RDS and CD text. Now, try going to just about anywhere in my glorious city for a harness for this car.  East Hamilton Radio is useless (and they’re the best place for just about anything electronic outside of Toronto), Future Shop are staffed by idiots, and Canadian Tire have never even heard of this vehicle. I understand that Daewoo cars are somewhat rare in North America, but if GM is marketing a vehicle here (Aveo comes to mind), I’d think that stereo harnesses should be slightly less rare than they are. And no, Crutchfield will not ship anything to Canada. Vuarra Vuarra Quid quid latine dictum sit altum videtur. (That which is said in Latin sounds profound.)

Have you tried Best Buy?  There’s numerous one’s throughout Canada now.

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Hi all. Like thousand other Venture owner, my low coolant light came on, I look around and no external coolant leaks but smell. I check the oil : oil cap & PCV are coated with white sludgy crap. Guess where the COOLANT went … into the CRANKCASE via the lower intake manifold gasket. Only 55k miles and very very disapointed … of GM. Anyway, according of the both TSB : – http://aklr.free.fr/envrac/SB-10001282-8175(Intake_manifold_gasket).pdf – http://aklr.free.fr/envrac/GM_3.1_3.4_TB.pdf I need to order parts for my mechanic : – short bolt #11588915 qty : 4 – long bolt #11588914 qty : 4 – threadlocker #12345382 qty : 1 – Fuel system – Fuel induction – Intake – Manifold gasket 3.4L 1997 – 2002 #89017279 : qty : 1 Do you thing a part is missing ? Thank you. — Christophe SALVAING Web site : http://christophe.salvaing.free.fr Family, Cars (Ford Aerostar LPG, Chevy Suburban LPG, AMC Pacer, Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon, Chevrolet Venture), Kitesurfing …

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You also need to replace an O-ring for the heater pipe. In my case I had to remove the EGR valve so you may need the gaskets. "Christophe Salvaing"

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi all. Like thousand other Venture owner, my low coolant light came on, I look around and no external coolant leaks but smell. I check the oil : oil cap & PCV are coated with white sludgy crap. Guess where the COOLANT went … into the CRANKCASE via the lower intake manifold gasket. Only 55k miles and very very disapointed … of GM. Anyway, according of the both TSB : – http://aklr.free.fr/envrac/SB-10001282-8175(Intake_manifold_gasket).pdf – http://aklr.free.fr/envrac/GM_3.1_3.4_TB.pdf I need to order parts for my mechanic : – short bolt #11588915 qty : 4 – long bolt #11588914 qty : 4 – threadlocker #12345382 qty : 1 – Fuel system – Fuel induction – Intake – Manifold gasket 3.4L 1997 – 2002 #89017279 : qty : 1 Do you thing a part is missing ? Thank you. — Christophe SALVAING Web site : http://christophe.salvaing.free.fr Family, Cars (Ford Aerostar LPG, Chevy Suburban LPG, AMC Pacer, Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon, Chevrolet Venture), Kitesurfing …

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I need to order parts for my mechanic : – short bolt #11588915 qty : 4 – long bolt #11588914 qty : 4 – threadlocker #12345382 qty : 1 – Fuel system – Fuel induction – Intake – Manifold gasket 3.4L 1997 – 2002 #89017279 : qty : 1 Do you thing a part is missing ?

You will need one or two valve cover gaskets (depending on what method the tech uses to remove the intake), I would also replace the heater bypass hose o-ring seal, and a heater pipe o-ring seal.  If you just get the stuff from a dealer, they will automatically know what to give you….I’m sure they throw 4-5 of them across the counter every day…if not more. Ian

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My trans in my 85 Caprice has been slipping (sometimes) in reverse for about 5 years or so. Never got any worse.  It started slipping about 100,000 miles ago.   It does leak some trans fluid.

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It’s probably a worn out clutch.   snip The transmission seems to slip when going in  reverse in my 1980 Chevrolet Caprice (OK going forward). Transmission fluid is OK. snip

       Could be a clogged filter, low line pressure seems to affect reverse clutches more than forward ones.  I’d go with new fluid and filter before adding any " tonics " – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’ve never seen a AT filter that had much stuff on it nor have I ever had a filter change affect how the tranny shifts felt or how it otherwise performed.  Unless the tranny is actually starting to come apart, there just isn’t much to filter in them.  That’s why new cars now go 100K on the original fluid and filter (if nothing goes wrong). Meh. My Celebrity had about 70k on it, and it stopped shifting into overdrive at 45 mph, it would do it at some random later speed. Dropping the pan and changing the filter cured it. -Sam

         A clean filter, and fresh fluid assures full line pressure,      full line pressure insures clutches grip tight.  Some cars slip after a fluid change because grit was " shimming " clutches tight,   now that grit is gone, clutches no longer fully engage.        My advice, add a drain plug, and change fluid frequently, it takes more than one change out to expel old fluid.  My TH350 lasted 180 K miles.

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It’s probably a worn out clutch.  Unless it blew up into pieces, sometimes pouring a transmission additive helps.  Lucas Transmission fix was mentioned by several people as being effective.  At this point, it’s broken anyway, it can’t hurt.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The transmission seems to slip when going in  reverse in my 1980 Chevrolet Caprice (OK going forward). Transmission fluid is OK. Is there anything one can adjust–or does the transmission have to be torn apart or replaced to fix? (I assume replacement from the junk yard would be cheaper?) — Jonathan Grobe Books Browse our inventory of thousands of used books at: http://www.grobebooks.com

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I’ve never seen a AT filter that had much stuff on it nor have I ever had a filter change affect how the tranny shifts felt or how it otherwise performed.  Unless the tranny is actually starting to come apart, there just isn’t much to filter in them.  That’s why new cars now go 100K on the original fluid and filter (if nothing goes wrong).

Meh. My Celebrity had about 70k on it, and it stopped shifting into overdrive at 45 mph, it would do it at some random later speed. Dropping the pan and changing the filter cured it. -Sam

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I wouldn’t worry aboiut it.  My 85 Chevy Caprice has been doing that (sometimes) for the last 7 years and last 100K.  It hasn’t gotten any worse since it started. OTOH, I had a 77 Ford Granada which started slipping in reverse, and it did get worse, so I could not back up a hill. But forward gears were always OK.

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The transmission seems to slip when going in  reverse in my 1980 Chevrolet Caprice (OK going forward). Transmission fluid is OK. Is there anything one can adjust–or does the transmission have to be torn apart or replaced to fix? (I assume replacement from the junk yard would be cheaper?) i wouldn’t care about it.  i have a 1987 caprice and i’m afraid it qualify as a "beater car".  your’s sounds like one too.  unless you can backup on a little hill, let it go.  stop backing up. I talked to my mechanic and he said that slipping in reverse in Chevrolets is an early warning signal that the transmission is going bad (higher pressures in reverse or something…) Anyone agree or disagree? Is it going to start slipping in forward?

Depends on why it’s slipping in reverse but yes, most likely it’s not going to last a whole lot longer.  The deal with the higher pressure is that due to design issues, the reverse band had to have VERY high pressure applied to keep it from slipping, something like 150 psi. Normal pressure for the bands and clutches is usually significantly lower.  As the tranny wears and the pump clearances increase the pump can’t generate as high a pressure, plus all the internal seals are getting worn and leaking more and more which requires the pump to pump a higher volume to maintain whatever pressure is needed.  So even if nothing is actually broken but it’s all just getting worn out, the high pressure for reverse may become impossible for the pump to supply. If it were my car and I wanted to avoid spending more then $15 on repairs, here’s what I would do…. 1 – buy a can of "STP" or other brand of oil viscosity improver, the stuff that’s like pouring honey into your engine and that makes the oil "thicker".  Except instead of putting it into the engine, put it in the tranny.  Make sure the tranny if fully warmed up before you start adding it and it will take a while to pour it down the dipstick tube because it’s so thick. This will raise the viscosity of the AT Fluid when it’s hot and the higher viscosity will allow the pump to generate more pressure and will also reduce the leakage at the various internal seals. 2 – buy a can of Trans-X or some other "transmission seal conditioner and rejuvenator".  To avoid overfilling the tranny look for one that’s pint sized rather then quart sized.  Pour that down the dipstick tube. This stuff will soften and swell the internal rubber seals which will also reduce leakage internally which will give the pump a better chance of building up the high pressure it needs to keep reverse from slipping. It will take several days to perhaps a couple weeks for this to do it’s magic, if it works at all.  Since we don’t really know why it’s slipping, this may or may not help.  It will not hurt anything in the transmission.  I have done this routine in several transmissions and sometimes it helps.  It has never caused a problem.  You can even dump in two cans of the "STP" type stuff if you want or feel it might help. The only thing "bad" about the higher viscosity is that it takes a little more power to pump it around which means theoretically your gas mileage could go down one or two percent.  You have bigger issues to worry about then that. If this does stop the slipping in reverse, then you may get quite a few more miles out of the transmission.  The other thing you can do, but it’s more work, is drop the tranny pan (before doing any of the above) and change the filter just in case the filter is dirty enough to be reducing oil flow to the pump which would lower the pressure. My guess is that won’t help, I’ve never seen a AT filter that had much stuff on it nor have I ever had a filter change affect how the tranny shifts felt or how it otherwise performed.  Unless the tranny is actually starting to come apart, there just isn’t much to filter in them.  That’s why new cars now go 100K on the original fluid and filter (if nothing goes wrong). — Elbridge Gerry, of Massachusetts: "What, sir, is the use of militia?  It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty.  . . Whenever Government means to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise a standing army upon its ruins."  – Debate, U.S.  House of Representatives, August 17, 1789  

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The transmission seems to slip when going in  reverse in my 1980 Chevrolet Caprice (OK going forward). Transmission fluid is OK. Is there anything one can adjust–or does the transmission have to be torn apart or replaced to fix? (I assume replacement from the junk yard would be cheaper?)

Has the tranny been serviced regularly? Maybe it needs a fluid and filter change. How many miles? — Paul ‘91 XL1200 ‘77 GL1000 (W.I.P.) "I feel more like I do now than when I got here"

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The transmission seems to slip when going in  reverse in my 1980 Chevrolet Caprice (OK going forward). Transmission fluid is OK. Is there anything one can adjust–or does the transmission have to be torn apart or replaced to fix? (I assume replacement from the junk yard would be cheaper?) i wouldn’t care about it.  i have a 1987 caprice and i’m afraid it qualify as a "beater car".  your’s sounds like one too.  unless you can backup on a little hill, let it go.  stop backing up.

I talked to my mechanic and he said that slipping in reverse in Chevrolets is an early warning signal that the transmission is going bad (higher pressures in reverse or something…) Anyone agree or disagree? Is it going to start slipping in forward? — Jonathan Grobe Books   Browse our inventory of thousands of used books at: http://www.grobebooks.com

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The transmission seems to slip when going in  reverse in my 1980 Chevrolet Caprice (OK going forward). Transmission fluid is OK. Is there anything one can adjust–or does the transmission have to be torn apart or replaced to fix? (I assume replacement from the junk yard would be cheaper?) — Jonathan Grobe Books   Browse our inventory of thousands of used books at: http://www.grobebooks.com

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The transmission seems to slip when going in  reverse in my 1980 Chevrolet Caprice (OK going forward). Transmission fluid is OK. Is there anything one can adjust–or does the transmission have to be torn apart or replaced to fix? (I assume replacement from the junk yard would be cheaper?)

i wouldn’t care about it.  i have a 1987 caprice and i’m afraid it qualify as a "beater car".  your’s sounds like one too.  unless you can backup on a little hill, let it go.  stop backing up. …thehick

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Rebuild is a possibility, no adjustments for that. Problem is the reverse clutch.

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – The transmission seems to slip when going in  reverse in my 1980 Chevrolet Caprice (OK going forward). Transmission fluid is OK. Is there anything one can adjust–or does the transmission have to be torn apart or replaced to fix? (I assume replacement from the junk yard would be cheaper?) — Jonathan Grobe Books Browse our inventory of thousands of used books at: http://www.grobebooks.com

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Hi everyones…thanks to read. My father drives a Chevrolet Astro (1987) and there’s a strange pressure build up in the tank. Every two~three days, there’s a noticeable odour in the truck and when the fuel cap is unscrewed, we can hear (and see!) the fumes escaping out, for as long as 3~4 seconds, with a loud hissing sound! The truck belongs to his boss so my father told him about this problem. The mechanics that regularly repairs the cars and trucks for the company told my father that "this happens sometimes"…that he happened to own a Ford that were doing the same thing… and to not worry about that. I personally don’t like such answer and i always thought that the pressure inside and outside the tank was supposed to be the same…isn’t it? I don’t know much about auto mechanics, but does the fuel thank is supposed to be equipped with a vent of some sort? And anyway,how pressure can build up like this? TIA for any replies. — Alain(alias:Kilowatt) Montr

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CONSERVATIVES VS. LIBERALS: THE NATURE OF THE STUPID LIBERAL. It all began a hundred thousand years ago on a ledge in front of a cave. A liberal male homosexual walked by, attracting the attention of another liberal male homosexual. The one liberal male homosexual stepped forward and smacked the other liberal homosexual over the head with his club. WHACK! He then dragged the unconscious other liberal homosexual into his cave for several hours of anal, and oral sex. Next thing you know, AIDS is invented! One day there were two liberals standing in front of a cave trying to figure out how to steal their neighbors pig when a female walked by. The first liberal raised his arm to club the female. The female communicated to him that he was a dirty and smelly liberal that needed to take a bath. The female made it very clear that she did not want any liberal to touch any part of her body. WHACK! WHACK! One of the dirty smelly liberals hit the woman over the head with his club. And then both liberals proceeded to gang rape her. Things didn’t change much for thousands of years until the advent of projectile weapons. This was first symbolized by the liberal corner drug dealer, where the big strong liberal brute, strung out on PCP, was laid flat by the small liberal crack dealer who shoots him with a stolen 357 magnum. Once liberal brute strength was no longer the controlling factor in social interaction, liberal ideas slowly started to fester in human culture, and civilization began to deteriorate. Throughout human history, the price for advocating conservative tolerance and progressive change has been paid for in threats, beatings, excommunication, incarceration, torture, murder, assassination, and execution. Countless liberals have caused civilization to pay the ultimate price, for their inhumanity. John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton are two of the more famous of liberals in high places that have been found out to have committed sex crimes while serving as president. Today there are many liberals – individuals, groups, and nations – who use threats and violence to silence the voices of conservative reason, tolerance, and progress. Here in America it is seen in liberal racists and homosexuals, Black Panthers and gays who spread AIDS just for the fun of it, for money and out of anger generated by interactive cause, and because of religious or racial intolerance and liberal bigotry. Alan Berg, on talk radio, was a liberal that loved to stir up trouble any way possible. Then Alan Berg was found dead outside of the building he lived in. Obviously the result of a drug deal gone bad. Liberals are well known for shooting each other during drug deals. David Rice is a liberal on death row in Washington State who has no remorse whatsoever for entering the home of a family of four and carving out their living hearts only because he heard they had money that he wanted to buy drugs with. At Ruby Ridge, a liberal controlled FBI shot a woman, holding a baby, in the back of the head. In 1993, in Waco, Texas, liberal Janet Reno sent liberal controlled federal troops into a compound to set fires and kill hundreds of women and children. The most abominable atrocity in several decades is the 9/11 terrorist attacks upon America. Thousands of innocent civilians were murdered. The perpetrator, the liberal Osama Bin Laden and the liberal al Qaeda-Taliban terrorists, epitomize the left-wing mentality of causing death and destruction everywhere possible. Liberals are still trying to defend Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda terrorists by protesting our military people who are trying to get rid of the terrorist threat to America. Arguing that such horrendous crimes are not political in nature or that they are not done primarily by liberals is utter nonsense. All we have to do is to look back at all of the liberal atrocities throughout history as seen below:   Who nailed who to a cross? Roman Soldiers nailed Conservative Christ to a cross. Who were the Loyalists to the totalitarian monarchy of King George? The liberal colonists of what is now the United States of America. The Conservatives took up guns, and then chased the British out of America with those guns while the liberals were all crying for more gun control laws. Who started our Civil War to defend slavery? Abraham Lincoln, a conservative Republican, came to the aid of the slaves. The southern liberals wanted to keep black people as slaves. But it was a northern conservative Republican who freed them. Who fought to keep women as property, and now fights their sovereignty over their own bodies in the freedom to choose abortion? Liberals love to kill everything, including unborn babies. Liberals are very sick people that value the life of a convicted murderer over a baby. Who fought against child labor statutes? Liberals are all for labor unions that would have everyone paying dues to an organization that is rife with crime and corruption, just like the Clinton family. Who fought against the concept of free public education? Liberals want everyone else to pay for everything that they do. Liberals feel that they should not have to work for anything at all when they can make someone else pay for it. Who fought against the right of women to vote? Liberals do not want anyone to vote for anyone who is not a liberal. Who fought against anti-trust and anti-monopoly legislation? Conservative Republican Teddy Roosevelt. Who fought against workers organizing? Liberals feel that workers should organize in order to try to extort more money out of employers. Who fought against government controls on manufacturers of cars "unsafe at any speed?" The same liberal idiot ( Ralph Nader ) that nobody pays attention to forty years later. The Chevrolet Corvair is not much different than any modern car. The Chevrolet Corvair was way ahead of its time. But a stupid liberal, of that time, wanted everyone to drive huge hulking cars that weighed in at about 2 tons each. Now liberals want all of us to drive electric cars that are not practical either. Who killed several thousand innocent civilians in the 9/11 terrorist attacks? William Jefferson Clinton! Because Billy Clinton had a perfect chance to get Osama bin Laden and decided to forget about it, because he felt that getting a blow job from Monica Lewinsky was more important. Who started WW2, murdered 13 million and caused the death of 40 million more? European liberals decided that Adolph Hitler was not a problem during the late thirties. So liberals just decided to looked the other way when he decided to start gassing the Jewish people. Who defended Jim Crow for a hundred years? The liberals still believe in the Jim Crow laws because all liberals believe that all black people belong on welfare. Liberals believe that black people are not capable of taking of taking care of themselves. Who fought against voting rights, civil rights, social security, health care for the elderly, and minimum wages? The liberals believe that everything should be controlled by one huge government where the people have nothing to say about anything. Who fights against environmental protection statutes? The liberals believe that we should all drive electric cars, but are too stupid to think about where to get the energy from ( Coal? Nuclear? Water Dam? ) that would be used to charge the batteries with. And if it

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Tomorrow is the anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.  It’s a good time to take a moment to honor the sacrifices our troops there and their families are making.

They are serving their leader the devil. "Now that Iraq has been conquered, hog-tied, and castrated to make the world safe for Israel — never mind a few little problems like the young girl who got her head blown off — or the 12-year-old boy who lost his family and both arms — or the journalists killed by the so-called coalition — there’s a lot of speculation on the street about who’s next. Will the "glorious allies" march into Syria? Or Iran? Or somewhere else? The other day Tony Blair solemnly assured us that he didn’t intend to attack Iran or Syria. And, in direct contradiction to his saber-rattling against Syria the other day at a Zionist conference attended by about half of the U.S. Senate (which has itself called for "regime change" in Iran), Colin Powell also intoned recently that the gang in D.C. has no intention of invading Iran or Syria. Maybe he means they have no intention of invading them today. Well, as they say on the soap operas, tomorrow is another day. Whenever functionaries like Blair and Powell start assuring me over and over again that something isn’t going to happen, I start to worry that it will happen, and soon, too. I do this because, 1) people like Powell and Blair (and Bush, too) are reading from a Zionist script these days, and the Zionist credo, as former Mossad operative Victor Ostrovsky admitted, is "by way of deception thou shalt do war"; and 2) Powell and Blair and Bush and company have little real authority, beholden as they are to the Jewish media for their political survival, so even if they sincerely believe that their territorial ambitions end with Iraq, it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter what they believe. With the possible exception of Powell, who has shown a minor streak of independence that would have caused him to be canned if he weren’t the successful mulatto poster boy for the Republicans, the heads of our so-called leaders are near-vacuums which the Jews fill with bogus "moral" reasons for invading, killing, or imprisoning their enemies. So I predict a march to Damascus and Teheran will commence once Iraq is fully subdued and a puppet government installed. That’s what the Jewish dictatorship apparently wants. The Jewish dictatorship may be the most powerful in human history, but they are vulnerable in exactly the same way that previous Jewish power structures have been vulnerable. They are far from invincible. As any student of history knows, the Jews have come to great financial and political power — even dominance — in many countries over the centuries, from Babylon and Persia to Olde England, the Spanish Empire, and 20th-century Germany. And many cases, they overextended themselves, became arrogant, and eventually they were expelled or compelled to leave by the angry reaction of the people they had oppressed. Their hubris and their millennial dreams of world power are their downfall. An interesting situation is developing in France in this regard. [<http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=12641&intcategory... ] In France, one would think that the Jews are riding high. They dominate much of the financial and media worlds there, and they have such influence over the state that it is actually illegal there to criticize them as a group or to doubt their WWII atrocity stories. French taxpayers have to cough up $500 million every year just to "preserve the memory" of the "Holocaust." But the Jewish dictatorship, in its arrogance, has gone so far that the true French people are gradually becoming aware of how they’ve been enslaved. The push for war on Iraq was the last straw for many Frenchmen, who didn’t see how sacrificing their blood and enraging many nearby Arab states in order to protect Israel was good for France. They also didn’t like it when Jewish groups called for a boycott of French products because the French people opposed this war. So the people there are becoming increasingly Jew-wise. And a recent poll of Jews in France (I try not to call them "French Jews" by the way — that’s like saying a mouse in a stable is a kind of horse) by a Jewish group called The Israel Project shows a large percentage are considering leaving the country for the United States or Israel. A leading Jew there, Roger Cukierman, doubts they’ll leave in large numbers anytime soon, but admits that emigration is a subject of discussion among Jews there. He quotes many Jews as saying when French nationalist leader Jean-Marie "Le Pen got 5 percent, they’d leave. Then they said, ‘When he gets 10 percent.’ Well, now he’s got 20 percent, and they’re still here." But the subject is being seriously discussed among France’s 500,000 or so admitted Jews. The poll showed that 26 per cent. of France’s Jews are considering leaving because of French attitudes toward Jews, and that 13 per cent. are "seriously" looking into finding a new home. According to Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi, a founder of The Israel Project, the mood among the Jews there is one of "severe depression." [<http://www.jewishtimes.com/News/2935.stm ] Of course, the Jews of France blame all this terrible "anti-Semitism" on anything and everything except themselves. They blame it on the French branch of the evil White race, which apparently just has hate for Jews in its bones. They blame it on the Arab immigrants to France, whom the Jews themselves brought to France in an effort to race-mix the White French out of existence and who now tragically constitute 10 per cent. of the population there. They even blame it on harsh Israeli policies against Palestinians. But none are willing to lay the blame on the perennial Jewish way of life, that of infiltrating and dominating a host society. The hubris of the Jews has long been their weak point, and one which they usually fail to recognize. This is also evident in the Jewish supremacists’ plans for Iraq. First they claimed to the world that they were going to invade and to kill because Saddam had "weapons of mass destruction" which, they said, might be used on us or on "his own people," but which they really worried might be used on Israel. But as the war progressed it became increasingly evident that Saddam had really disarmed and that no such weapons existed. Almost all of the Iraqi resistance to the invasion has been small arms fire, much of it from citizen’s militias — private citizens armed to defend their homes and fields and families. Again and again the spinmeisters claimed they had found "suspicious" materials — and again and again the claims were shown to have no substance. The highly-armed cannon fodder, the world’s great super-power, bombed and invaded a poor, starving, and largely disarmed country which nevertheless fought back against the overwhelming might of White technology and White soldiers that were shamefully being used as Zionist pawns. Last Saturday, even the British Home Secretary David Blunkett admitted that no chemical, biological, or nuclear "weapons of mass destruction" had been found or were likely to be found in Iraq, thus confirming what the U.N. weapons inspectors had been saying all along, and also confirming that the public hand-wringing about these weapons (that many other countries have anyway) was just a ruse to garner support for this Zionist war. If Saddam Hussein had such weapons, why didn’t he use them against the invaders when they were still distant from Iraqi centers of population? The actions of the U.S. military commanders, who have to be practical men, speak volumes: they have ordered that their men need no longer wear protective gear against chemical and biological agents: the masks and suits have come off. [<http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp?cu_no=1&item_no=1858&... ] The media Jews believe that the public has a short memory and will not notice that one major prop for this war has just fallen. They also think that we all stay glued to Faux News and the other Jewish channels and can’t find information on the Internet, such as the fact that the U.S. forces have used cluster bombs, depleted uranium shells, and are planning to use chemical agents like tear gas — all in violation of international agreements and conventions. But among the best-informed and more intelligent segment of the population, their lies have not gone unnoticed. And it is this stratum of the population which matters most. Jews underestimate our intelligence at their peril. Their hubris is their downfall. The Zionists who are running this war also have mapped out a post-war strategy for Iraq which is breathtaking in its arrogance and ignorance. First, they want the U.N. and other international agencies to have no part in setting up a new Iraqi government, though they are generous enough to suggest that the U.N. might be allowed to hand out some bread and water to the starving Iraqis from time to time. Instead, it will be a military occupation government, headed by Jews and employees of Jews. I am sure that the Iraqis, even those who had no love for Saddam Hussein, will be very happy that their sworn enemies and those who used cluster bombs against them and their children will be the new rulers. I am sure that they will feel happy to be so "liberated." I am sure they will feel confident in a "democracy" in which Perle and Wolfowitz and Frum and Kristol decide who is a "legitimate" candidate and who must rot in jail. On Sunday, the Jewish supremacists flew an odd man named Ahmed Chalabi into Iraq to integrate him into the Jewish-led forces there, under the comic-book name of "First Battalion of Free Iraqi Forces." Chalabi has been groomed by the Zionists as a leader in post-war Iraq. He leads something called the "Iraqi National Congress," a … read more »

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ANNOUNCEMENTS and ARTICLES: http://pnews.org/art/art.shtml ::: George W. Bush’s Weirdness ::: ::: He thinks he is doing God’s will :::    "If you want to understand why the Bush administration invaded Iraq,    read Freud’s interpretation of Dreams, not the National Security    Strategy of the United States. Only the twisted logic of dreams can    explain why the United States thinks that the aggressive pursuit of    contradictory goals–promoting democracy, affirming U.S. hegemony, and    ensuring stable energy supplies–will produce success."    (Foreign Policy – 1/1/2004 – by Slavoj Zizek in Weird Logic of Dreams    and Weird Logic of George W. Bush )    "To illustrate the weird logic of dreams, Sigmund Freud used to evoke a    story about a borrowed kettle: When a friend accuses you of returning    a borrowed kettle broken, your reply is, first, that you never    borrowed the kettle; second, that you returned it unbroken; and third,    that the kettle was already broken when you borrowed it. Such an    enumeration of inconsistent arguments, of course, confirms precisely    what it endeavors to deny: that you, in fact, did borrow and break the    kettle." (Zizek)    "A similar string of inconsistencies characterized the Bush    administration’s public justifications for the U.S. attack on Iraq in    early 2003. First, the administration claimed that Saddam Hussein    possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which posed a "real and    present danger" to his neighbors, to Israel, and to all democratic    Western states. So far, no such weapons have been found (after more    than 1,000 U.S. specialists have spent months looking for them). Then,    the administration argued that even if Saddam does not have any WMD,    be was involved with al Qaeda in the September 11 attacks and    therefore should be punished and prevented from launching future    assaults. But even U.S. President George W. Bush had to concede in    September 2003 that the United States "had no evidence that Saddam    Hussein was involved with September the 11th." Finally, there was the    third level of justification, that even if there was no proof of a    link with al Qaeda, Saddam’s ruthless dictatorship was a threat to its    neighbors and a catastrophe to its own people, and these facts were    reason enough to topple it. True, but why topple Iraq and not other    evil regimes, starting with Iran and North Korea, the two other    members of Bush’s infamous "axis of evil" ?" (Zizek) George W. Bush says the world is a safer place – and says Saddam Hussein uses violence against his own people, ignoring his own violence and the violence which results from his failed policies and his rationalization of his weirdness – which is typical of a psychopath and a sociopath who has a faith in HIS own manifest destiny and HIS apocalyptic world view.  The truth is George Bush thinks he is doing God’s will. Just ask him. And if you ask psychiatrists or psychologists about the underlying cause for someone who harbors delusions that he is carrying out God’s will with his own killing – like George Bush obviously does, they will tell you it is classic of mental illness and anyone who believes that should not be president of the United States; he should be locked up with others who are mentally insane where he cannot harm anyone. Hank Roth http://pnews.org/       —     / o o  PNEWS Topic Specific Portals (Vortals) [1] http://pnews.org/NWO/phpnuke/ (Piss Off George Portal) [2] http://pnews.org/MEP/phpnuke/ (Myth Busters Portal) [3] http://g0lem.net/PHP/phpnuke/ (Insane Planet Portal) [4] http://g0lem.net/HTH/phpnuke/ (Wacko World Portal) [5] http://g0lem.net/AAA/phpnuke/ (Bad-Ass Truth Portal) [6] http://pnews.org/AAA/phpnuke/ (Naked Truth Portal) [7] http://pnews.org/portal/ (Egalitarian-Progressive)     _/ _/

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Tomorrow is the anniversary of the start of the war in Iraq.  It’s a good time to take a moment to honor the sacrifices our troops there and their families are making.  More than 100,000 American troops are serving in Iraq today.

Tell the truth.  You moveon.org asswipes *don’t* honor our soldiers, you hate them. Here’s how the anti-war movement supports our troops — with a sign that reads "we support the troops when they shoot their officers."  See the picture archived at: http://www.frontpagemag.com/media/Homepage/ShootOfficers1.gif – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Here’s the story of one mother, Adele Kubein, whose daughter was injured while serving in Iraq:   When my daughter enlisted in the National Guard I was proud of her,   for having the discipline to make it through basic training.  But I   had friends who went to Vietnam, and I said: "Baby, are you sure you   want to do this? And she said: "Oh, mom, I’m going to fight fires in   Oregon, build roads, and there’s never going to be another war."   When she called me after her unit went from Kuwait to Mosul in a   convoy and told me that she had gone through roads with depleted   uranium dust and tanks with dead bodies in them, I was afraid.  I   knew that my daughter was facing mortal danger.  I cried for joy   that she was alive when her helicopter was shot down because the   one in front of her, everybody died on.  But when she called me up   and told me, "mom, I had to kill someone today, and I looked in his   eyes and I saw him die," I cried with her because I knew there was   no going back then.   I want to know that there’s a good reason for what happened to my   daughter, and to all the other kids that have been killed and   injured in Iraq.  My daughter told me stories about the Iraqi   people, their casualties are just as high as ours, and they love   their families just as much as we love ours.  When my daughter was   injured, I cried, I wept with joy to know that she was coming home,   because I knew that so many other people were not going to come   home.  My daughter accounted for herself; she did her duties   regardless of her fears and feelings.  She thought she was going to   Iraq to build houses and schools for people who needed them.   That’s what they told them in the Oregon National Guard.  Instead   she ended up in an ever-escalating cycle of violence.   Our nation is based on accountability.  I want to know that what our   loved ones are going through is for a good reason.  When I visit my   daughter once more and hold her as she weeps about the things that   she has seen and done, I will tell her that she did the right thing.   But I want to know that the people who lead this country are doing   the right thing also. [1] Of course, this is just one story.  Thousands of our troops in Iraq have been injured, and hundreds have been killed.  Countless Iraqis have also been killed. [2] One simple way to show our respect and gratitude for our soldiers’ service, and our hope for their safe return, is to put a candle (or a light resembling one) in a window tomorrow night. Our troops and their families are making incredible sacrifices.  Many reservists serving in Iraq left with as little as a week’s notice, and have been told they’ll be there for a year, at constant risk to life and limb. At the same time, the Bush administration has tried to short-change soldiers, veterans, and their families on combat pay, [3] health care, [4] and education funding. [5] One way we can help is by giving to a fund called the Armed Forces Relief Trust, which helps military servicemembers and their families with emergency expenses, medical bills, flights home, and education costs.  If you’d like, you can give at:   http://www.afrtrust.org/aboutcontributing.asp Please take a few minutes to honor our troops tomorrow by putting a light in your window.  And if you can help some families in need, that’s great too. Thank you. Sincerely, – Carrie, Joan, Noah, Peter, and Wes   The MoveOn.org team   Friday, March 19th, 2004 [1] Adele made this statement at a press conference announcing our Censure campaign, on February 10th. [2] According to an editorial in today’s New York Times, "The innocent Iraqi casualties of Mr. Bush’s war are literally countless because the Pentagon refuses to estimate their number." http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/opinion/19FRI1.html?hp [3] http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0803/14paycut.html [4] http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A4064-2003Jan16 [5] http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/110009_military25.shtml

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CONSERVATIVES VS. LIBERALS: THE NATURE OF LIBERAL ROBERT LEDERMAN It all began a hundred thousand years ago on a ledge in front of a cave. A liberal male homosexual walked by, attracting the attention of another liberal male homosexual. The one liberal male homosexual stepped forward and smacked the other liberal homosexual over the head with his club. WHACK! He then dragged the unconscious other liberal homosexual into his cave for several hours of anal, and oral sex. Next thing you know, AIDS is invented! One day there were two liberals standing in front of a cave trying to figure out how to steal their neighbors pig when a female walked by. The first liberal raised his arm to club the female. The female communicated to him that he was a dirty and smelly liberal that needed to take a bath. The female made it very clear that she did not want any liberal to touch any part of her body. WHACK! WHACK! One of the dirty smelly liberals hit the woman over the head with his club. And then both liberals proceeded to gang rape her. Things didn’t change much for thousands of years until the advent of projectile weapons. This was first symbolized by the liberal corner drug dealer, where the big strong liberal brute, strung out on PCP, was laid flat by the small liberal crack dealer who shoots him with a stolen 357 magnum. Once liberal brute strength was no longer the controlling factor in social interaction, liberal ideas slowly started to fester in human culture, and civilization began to deteriorate. Throughout human history, the price for advocating conservative tolerance and progressive change has been paid for in threats, beatings, excommunication, incarceration, torture, murder, assassination, and execution. Countless liberals have caused civilization to pay the ultimate price, for their inhumanity. John F. Kennedy, and Bill Clinton are two of the more famous of liberals in high places that have been found out to have committed sex crimes while serving as president. Today there are many liberals – individuals, groups, and nations – who use threats and violence to silence the voices of conservative reason, tolerance, and progress. Here in America it is seen in liberal racists and homosexuals, Black Panthers and gays who spread AIDS just for the fun of it, for money and out of anger generated by interactive cause, and because of religious or racial intolerance and liberal bigotry. Alan Berg, on talk radio, was a liberal that loved to stir up trouble any way possible. Then Alan Berg was found dead outside of the building he lived in. Obviously the result of a drug deal gone bad. Liberals are well known for shooting each other during drug deals. David Rice is a liberal on death row in Washington State who has no remorse whatsoever for entering the home of a family of four and carving out their living hearts only because he heard they had money that he wanted to buy drugs with. At Ruby Ridge, a liberal controlled FBI shot a woman, holding a baby, in the back of the head. In 1993, in Waco, Texas, liberal Janet Reno sent liberal controlled federal troops into a compound to set fires and kill hundreds of women and children. The most abominable atrocity in several decades is the 9/11 terrorist attacks upon America. Thousands of innocent civilians were murdered. The perpetrator, the liberal Osama Bin Laden and the liberal al Qaeda-Taliban terrorists, epitomize the left-wing mentality of causing death and destruction everywhere possible. Liberals are still trying to defend Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda terrorists by protesting our military people who are trying to get rid of the terrorist threat to America. Arguing that such horrendous crimes are not political in nature or that they are not done primarily by liberals is utter nonsense. All we have to do is to look back at all of the liberal atrocities throughout history as seen below:   Who nailed who to a cross? Roman Soldiers nailed Conservative Christ to a cross. Who were the Loyalists to the totalitarian monarchy of King George? The liberal colonists of what is now the United States of America. The Conservatives took up guns, and then chased the British out of America with those guns while the liberals were all crying for more gun control laws. Who started our Civil War to defend slavery? Abraham Lincoln, a conservative Republican, came to the aid of the slaves. The southern liberals wanted to keep black people as slaves. But it was a northern conservative Republican who freed them. Who fought to keep women as property, and now fights their sovereignty over their own bodies in the freedom to choose abortion? Liberals love to kill everything, including unborn babies. Liberals are very sick people that value the life of a convicted murderer over a baby. Who fought against child labor statutes? Liberals are all for labor unions that would have everyone paying dues to an organization that is rife with crime and corruption, just like the Clinton family. Who fought against the concept of free public education? Liberals want everyone else to pay for everything that they do. Liberals feel that they should not have to work for anything at all when they can make someone else pay for it. Who fought against the right of women to vote? Liberals do not want anyone to vote for anyone who is not a liberal. Who fought against anti-trust and anti-monopoly legislation? Conservative Republican Teddy Roosevelt. Who fought against workers organizing? Liberals feel that workers should organize in order to try to extort more money out of employers. Who fought against government controls on manufacturers of cars "unsafe at any speed?" The same liberal idiot ( Ralph Nader ) that nobody pays attention to forty years later. The Chevrolet Corvair is not much different than any modern car. The Chevrolet Corvair was way ahead of its time. But a stupid liberal, of that time, wanted everyone to drive huge hulking cars that weighed in at about 2 tons each. Now liberals want all of us to drive electric cars that are not practical either. Who killed several thousand innocent civilians in the 9/11 terrorist attacks? William Jefferson Clinton! Because Billy Clinton had a perfect chance to get Osama bin Laden and decided to forget about it, because he felt that getting a blow job from Monica Lewinsky was more important. Who started WW2, murdered 13 million and caused the death of 40 million more? European liberals decided that Adolph Hitler was not a problem during the late thirties. So liberals just decided to looked the other way when he decided to start gassing the Jewish people. Who defended Jim Crow for a hundred years? The liberals still believe in the Jim Crow laws because all liberals believe that all black people belong on welfare. Liberals believe that black people are not capable of taking of taking care of themselves. Who fought against voting rights, civil rights, social security, health care for the elderly, and minimum wages? The liberals believe that everything should be controlled by one huge government where the people have nothing to say about anything. Who fights against environmental protection statutes? The liberals believe that we should all drive electric cars, but are too stupid to think about where to get the energy from ( Coal? Nuclear? Water Dam? ) that would be used to charge the batteries with. And if it

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Re: New Synthetic Oil Thread I just changed my oil to Royal Purple Synthetic, ever since I’ve owned the truck, 91 Sierra 4X4 ext. cab 350 A/T, 151000, I have used conventional oil. I was always under the impression that synthetic cleaned out the carbon deposits and smoothed out the cylinder walls for better compression. Price was not an object on deciding to use RP, however, longer engine life is my main priority. In two weeks I’ll be leaving New Jersey for Florida. I’d be curious to see if the stuff actually smoothes out the engine on such a long trip at highway speeds, 65-70, roughly a 1200 mi. trip. Any comments gentlemen? Pindar I doubt that you will note any difference. I have used synthetics for years. What I noticed was that when really working the engine hard my oil usage dropped off. I concluded that it was getting so hot that the convention oil was vaporizing. I think back to something that Smokey Yunik wrote about the first time he used synthetic in a 500 indy engine. He said when he tore the engine down after the race he could still see the hone marks on the bearing surfaces. Something he had never seen before. well you can add me to the list of people who have never seen hone marks on bearing surface before! roflmfao I just happen to still have a copy of that article.  It is very old. <snip Some of the synthetics do seem to have rather remarkable wear characteristics.  Smokey Yunik, for example, has vast experience with racing cars. When I visited him recently in Daytona Beach. he told me of his experience with polyol ester lubricants.  "When you disassemble an engine that’s run on mineral oil," he said, "if you examine the rings and cylinder bores with a glass you’ll see ridges and scratches – that’s the wear going on. With a polyol ester, when you take the engine apart everything has the appearance of being chrome-plated. In the engine we ran at Indianapolis this year," he continued, "we used polyol. When we tore the engine down, you could still see the original honing marks on the bearings – no wear at all. We put the same bearings back in because the crankshaft never touched the bearings. I’ve never seen that before." <snip Another cut from the same article: <snip .  Smokey ran a 302-inch Chevrolet engine on a dynamometer for 13 hours on mineral oil, drained it, replaced it with All Proof and ran another 13 hours, and so on, through various power settings.  His results are shown in the chart with this article.  Horsepower output was increased by eight to 10 percent with the synthetic.  Or with the same horsepower output, gas savings were improved by the same amount.  Bill Gentit of Stauffer Chemical, which makes a polyol ester base stock, says Smokey’s figures make sense to him and points to the viscosity-pressure characteristics again.  "With mineral oil, viscosity looks linear up to some point.  Then the curve turns up sharply.  The synthetic simply holds up better at high temperatures–the way Smokey was operating that engine–and the mineral oil doesn’t.  So with the synthetic you keep an oil film on the metal surface and you’re getting better lubrication." <snip

I don’t believe Smokey said what the article reports him to have said. Instead I believe the person writing the article or the editor, made a mistake. (Probably because they were journalist rather than engineers). Bearings are not honed! Therefore they do not have hone marks on them. What was most likely said was the hone marks on the cylinder wall was still visible. This is true when using synthetic oil in a new (rebuilt) engine, as it takes a good bit of running to break the engine in. As Smokey was active a number of years ago, this information is "dated". You can see the same thing with mineral oil today in new engines that have perfectly round bores, and use the latest materials to manufacture the piston rings. Also some organic oils such Castor and Jababba [spelling???] bean oils are even slicker than the current synthetics that are sold for automotive use. — Diamond Jim "The Old Devil Dog"

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Re: New Synthetic Oil Thread   I just changed my oil to Royal Purple Synthetic, ever since I’ve owned the truck, 91 Sierra 4X4 ext. cab 350 A/T, 151000, I have used conventional oil. I was always under the impression that synthetic cleaned out the carbon deposits and smoothed out the cylinder walls for better compression. Price was not an object on deciding to use RP, however, longer engine life is my main priority. In two weeks I’ll be leaving New Jersey for Florida. I’d be curious to see if the stuff actually smoothes out the engine on such a long trip at highway speeds, 65-70, roughly a 1200 mi. trip. Any comments gentlemen? Pindar I doubt that you will note any difference. I have used synthetics for years. What I noticed was that when really working the engine hard my oil usage dropped off. I concluded that it was getting so hot that the convention oil was vaporizing. I think back to something that Smokey Yunik wrote about the first time he used synthetic in a 500 indy engine. He said when he tore the engine down after the race he could still see the hone marks on the bearing surfaces. Something he had never seen before. well you can add me to the list of people who have never seen hone marks on bearing surface before! roflmfao

I just happen to still have a copy of that article.  It is very old. <snip Some of the synthetics do seem to have rather remarkable wear characteristics.  Smokey Yunik, for example, has vast experience with racing cars. When I visited him recently in Daytona Beach. he told me of his experience with polyol ester lubricants.  "When you disassemble an engine that’s run on mineral oil," he said, "if you examine the rings and cylinder bores with a glass you’ll see ridges and scratches – that’s the wear going on. With a polyol ester, when you take the engine apart everything has the appearance of being chrome-plated. In the engine we ran at Indianapolis this year," he continued, "we used polyol. When we tore the engine down, you could still see the original honing marks on the bearings – no wear at all. We put the same bearings back in because the crankshaft never touched the bearings. I’ve never seen that before." <snip Another cut from the same article: <snip .  Smokey ran a 302-inch Chevrolet engine on a dynamometer for 13 hours on mineral oil, drained it, replaced it with All Proof and ran another 13 hours, and so on, through various power settings.  His results are shown in the chart with this article.  Horsepower output was increased by eight to 10 percent with the synthetic.  Or with the same horsepower output, gas savings were improved by the same amount.  Bill Gentit of Stauffer Chemical, which makes a polyol ester base stock, says Smokey’s figures make sense to him and points to the viscosity-pressure characteristics again.  "With mineral oil, viscosity looks linear up to some point.  Then the curve turns up sharply.  The synthetic simply holds up better at high temperatures–the way Smokey was operating that engine–and the mineral oil doesn’t.  So with the synthetic you keep an oil film on the metal surface and you’re getting better lubrication." <snip

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I just changed my oil to Royal Purple Synthetic, ever since I’ve owned the truck, 91 Sierra 4X4 ext. cab 350 A/T, 151000, I have used conventional oil. I was always under the impression that synthetic cleaned out the carbon deposits and smoothed out the cylinder walls for better compression. Price was not an object on deciding to use RP, however, longer engine life is my main priority. In two weeks I’ll be leaving New Jersey for Florida. I’d be curious to see if the stuff actually smoothes out the engine on such a long trip at highway speeds, 65-70, roughly a 1200 mi. trip. Any comments gentlemen? Pindar I doubt that you will note any difference. I have used synthetics for years. What I noticed was that when really working the engine hard my oil usage dropped off. I concluded that it was getting so hot that the convention oil was vaporizing. I think back to something that Smokey Yunik wrote about the first time he used synthetic in a 500 indy engine. He said when he tore the engine down after the race he could still see the hone marks on the bearing surfaces. Something he had never seen before. well you can add me to the list of people who have never seen hone marks on bearing surface before! roflmfao

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Depending on the condition of your motor, you might want to change that first set of Synthetic out before the trip, or at least give it a good look and see if it has cleared a bunch of the crud out already.  The first batch of Synth really cleans stuff out. Big Chris

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I just changed my oil to Royal Purple Synthetic, ever since I’ve owned the truck, 91 Sierra 4X4 ext. cab 350 A/T, 151000,  I have used conventional oil. I was always under the impression that synthetic cleaned out the carbon deposits and smoothed out the cylinder walls for better compression. Price was not an object on deciding to use RP, however, longer engine life is my main priority.  In two weeks I’ll be leaving New Jersey for Florida. I’d be curious to see if the stuff actually smoothes out the engine on such a long trip at highway speeds, 65-70, roughly a 1200 mi. trip. Any comments gentlemen? Pindar

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I just changed my oil to Royal Purple Synthetic, ever since I’ve owned the truck, 91 Sierra 4X4 ext. cab 350 A/T, 151000,  I have used conventional oil. I was always under the impression that synthetic cleaned out the carbon deposits and smoothed out the cylinder walls for better compression. Price was not an object on deciding to use RP, however, longer engine life is my main priority.  In two weeks I’ll be leaving New Jersey for Florida. I’d be curious to see if the stuff actually smoothes out the engine on such a long trip at highway speeds, 65-70, roughly a 1200 mi. trip. Any comments gentlemen? Pindar

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I just changed my oil to Royal Purple Synthetic, ever since I’ve owned the truck, 91 Sierra 4X4 ext. cab 350 A/T, 151000,  I have used conventional oil. I was always under the impression that synthetic cleaned out the carbon deposits and smoothed out the cylinder walls for better compression. Price was not an object on deciding to use RP, however, longer engine life is my main priority.  In two weeks I’ll be leaving New Jersey for Florida. I’d be curious to see if the stuff actually smoothes out the engine on such a long trip at highway speeds, 65-70, roughly a 1200 mi. trip. Any comments gentlemen? Pindar

I doubt that you will note any difference.  I have used synthetics for years.  What I noticed was that when really working the engine hard my oil usage dropped off.  I concluded that it was getting so hot that the convention oil was vaporizing. I think back to something that Smokey Yunik wrote about the first time he used synthetic in a 500 indy engine.  He said when he tore the engine down after the race he could still see the hone marks on the bearing surfaces.  Something he had never seen before.

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My 1996 Chevy chassis motor home won’t start.  The battery is good. Connections are all good.  Starter is good.  No sound at all when I try to start it.  I can short the starter relay terminals with a screwdriver and it starts just fine.  How do I remove the ignition switch to check it?

The switch was bad.  New one got here this morning and I spent about 3 hours getting the old one off and the new one in.  Wouldn’t have taken very long at all, but the working room for removing and (especially) installing the screws was very tight.  These fat fingers were having a hard time.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Frank Tabor managed to stumble across the right keys to write: Chebbys don’t have starter relays.  They have a solenoid mounted on the starter.  The contacts he shorted is the solenoid. OK. I’m not an auto mechanic, replace relay with solenoid. How did original poster determine that the starter solenoid is good? Murphy has his law. I have my law of troubleshooting. If a person can’t figure it out, they automatically assume the problem is with the most exotic most difficult item to replace. Maybe he/she needs to rip out the steering column. Go for it.

I used a screwdriver to short from 12 volts to the solenoid control terminal.  The solenoid worked, the starter worked, and the engine started.  I’ve ordered a new ignition switch.  Supposed to be in today.   It’s mounted on (not in) the steering column and controlled by a mechanical linkage from the key cylinder, so shouldn’t be too hard to replace.

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Frank Tabor managed to stumble across the right keys to write: Chebbys don’t have starter relays.  They have a solenoid mounted on the starter.  The contacts he shorted is the solenoid.

OK. I’m not an auto mechanic, replace relay with solenoid. How did original poster determine that the starter solenoid is good? Murphy has his law. I have my law of troubleshooting. If a person can’t figure it out, they automatically assume the problem is with the most exotic most difficult item to replace. Maybe he/she needs to rip out the steering column. Go for it.

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My 1996 Chevy chassis motor home won’t start.  The battery is good. Connections are all good.  Starter is good.  No sound at all when I try to start it.  I can short the starter relay terminals with a screwdriver and it starts just fine.  How do I remove the ignition switch to check it? Thanks for the replies.  No help so far.

How did you determine that the start relay is good or have you already replaced it? Sounds like a bad starter relay to me.

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Has anyone noticed that google search is pretty much useless?  I did a search for "chevrolet ignition switch" in quotes to find the exact phrase.  I got a bunch of wierd hits, like somehow sites were inserting my search phrase in random places and returning a match. For example: "… eclipse for sale! About used sports cars a drum brake repair! By lexus brake parts in chevrolet ignition switch . The brake parts …" With hundreds of "hits" like this, any valid ones are almost impossible to find.

I’ve noticed that as well- people are getting better at writing active pages which google "spiders", and they get high results for them. I would bet that google will figure out a way around it before long. — Chris Bryant http://bryantrv.com

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With hundreds of "hits" like this, any valid ones are almost impossible to find.

So try some variables.  Pages of hits on troubleshooting chevy ignitions that might lead you somewhere. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=troubleshootin… LZ

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Has anyone noticed that google search is pretty much useless?  I did a search for "chevrolet ignition switch" in quotes to find the exact phrase.  I got a bunch of wierd hits, like somehow sites were inserting my search phrase in random places and returning a match. For example: "… eclipse for sale! About used sports cars a drum brake repair! By lexus brake parts in chevrolet ignition switch . The brake parts …" With hundreds of "hits" like this, any valid ones are almost impossible to find.

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My 1996 Chevy chassis motor home won’t start.  The battery is good. Connections are all good.  Starter is good.  No sound at all when I try to start it.  I can short the starter relay terminals with a screwdriver and it starts just fine.  How do I remove the ignition switch to check it?

Thanks for the replies.  No help so far.  I thought the switch was inside the steering column (where you stick the key), So I thought the lock cylinder had to be removed to access the switch.  But one of the responses said the switch is mounted on top of the column, apparently under the dash.  If so, I can’t find it, but then I don’t know what it looks like.  I doesn’t try to start at any gearshift position, so probably not a misalignment. This is a Chevy class A motorhome chassis, not a van.  My son in law was driving it and said when he tried to start it, he smelled insulation burning, so I’ve been looking for burned wires. Does anyone know a site that would have a picture of the switch so I know what I’m looking for?

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Maybe a wild goose chase but I think those switches sometimes have interlocks so you cant start with trannie in drive and stuff like that.  If so the interlock might be the problem. TS

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – My 1996 Chevy chassis motor home won’t start.  The battery is good. Connections are all good.  Starter is good.  No sound at all when I try to start it.  I can short the starter relay terminals with a screwdriver and it starts just fine.  How do I remove the ignition switch to check it?

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It might just need adjusted, go get you a Haynes manual. Joe – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -My 1996 Chevy chassis motor home won’t start.  The battery is good. Connections are all good.  Starter is good.  No sound at all when I try to start it.  I can short the starter relay terminals with a screwdriver and it starts just fine.  How do I remove the ignition switch to check it?

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My 1996 Chevy chassis motor home won’t start.  The battery is good. Connections are all good.  Starter is good.  No sound at all when I try to start it.  I can short the starter relay terminals with a screwdriver and it starts just fine.  How do I remove the ignition switch to check it?

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The switch should be mounted on top of the steering column about half way between the wheel and firewall, attached by two small screws, with a link from the transmission selector attached to it. Try checking the connections at the switch before you remove it. Also (with the brakes firmly engaged), try moving the shift selector to different positions while you turn the key. Again -MAKE SURE THE BRAKES ARE FIRMLY ENGAGED FIRST. — Peter DiVergilio The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue."

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – My 1996 Chevy chassis motor home won’t start.  The battery is good. Connections are all good.  Starter is good.  No sound at all when I try to start it.  I can short the starter relay terminals with a screwdriver and it starts just fine.  How do I remove the ignition switch to check it?

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I been alright Doc, driving that damned 18 wheeler too much. I visit the group on weekends and throw my 2 cents in. Put the modified Vortec heads on the flat-top pistons for 10.4:1 compression, according to the recipe i followed she is pumping about 440hp, (feels like it), smokes all 4 tires easily The gear-drive is ear candy at about 2800rpm,almost too much for the senses above that The 203 transfer is gone, replaced with a 205 and twin-stick Hello Mr Glaenzer (TransSurgeon), yea I’ll stick around and learn from the PROS…….y’all take care — Mad Dog

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Wow TransSurgeon, you’re a freakin genius. — Mad Dog Dog, How ya been man?  Just FYI, TransSurgeon is actually Gary G; he changed his handle. Doc A couple mechanics did and could not see anything.  When my engine light   came off the first time the mechanic had cleared off and said it was transmission slipeage, but the others, even the Chevrolet Dealer could not see that on their computer. They also told me that is would not show    anything like that. they’re full of shit

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damn right I am stick around and you might learn a thing or two

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Wow TransSurgeon, you’re a freakin genius. — Mad Dog A couple mechanics did and could not see anything.  When my engine light   came off the first time the mechanic had cleared off and said it was transmission slipeage, but the others, even the Chevrolet Dealer could not see that on their computer. They also told me that is would not show    anything like that. they’re full of shit

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. . TOP POST The first indicator is usually having to ask …. "How do I know if my transmission is going bad?" hope that answered your question, MarshMonster ~smells trolls~ ======= ======= How do I know if my transmission is or going bad?

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Wow TransSurgeon, you’re a freakin genius. — Mad Dog

Dog, How ya been man?  Just FYI, TransSurgeon is actually Gary G; he changed his handle. Doc – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – A couple mechanics did and could not see anything.  When my engine light   came off the first time the mechanic had cleared off and said it was transmission slipeage, but the others, even the Chevrolet Dealer could not see that on their computer. They also told me that is would not show    anything like that. they’re full of shit

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thanks for everyone trying to answer my question.  Anything helps, I can stand there and ask questions now and not just stand infront the mechanic and let him take advantage of woman. Anyway, I have been thinking how to describe the problem the best and maybe this helps. I have noticed that after the engine gets pretty hot, not heating etc.,   I mean after hours driving, since I have to travel long distance (100 miles), and then I was stuck in traffic. While taking off, from standing still going into 2nd gear.. I felt under my car noice like when you change gears on manual shifting, and it jerked a little like when you shift on manual cars gears, taking the clutch to fast off.  I have compaired my automatic transmission to the manual.  I hope this helps some to understand my problem a little.  That is also when I have looked under my car and have seen a red pudle of fluid under my car (about the middle of my car, under the transmission pen and the pen was wet too) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – damn right I am stick around and you might learn a thing or two Wow TransSurgeon, you’re a freakin genius. — Mad Dog A couple mechanics did and could not see anything.  When my engine light  came off the first time the mechanic had cleared off and said it was transmission slipeage, but the others, even the Chevrolet Dealer could not see that on their computer. They also told me that is would not show   anything like that. they’re full of shit

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Gunes, you need to be more specific about the vehicle, exactly what transmission does it have? judging from the vague description that you gave the problem may be resolved by just dropping the valve-body and not rebuilding the whole transmission. You say it does’nt slip and has no hesitation engaging or changing gears but it shifts hard when driving normally. This is usually remedied by making a adjustment in the valve-body which is above the pan. Try not to take it to any of the "big name " rebuilders like Aamco as their only goal will be to sell you a rebuilt tranny which you probably don’t need. Make some phone calls and locate someone who sounds  knowledgeable with the specific problem you’re having. Or try to locate someone who is a "brand specific" repair specialist. Call a few garages and ask them who they use to repair their customers transmissions. Good luck Gunes, i wish there was more i could do for you. — Mad Dog

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – it is automatic is it a manual or auto? Slipping, hesitation engaging or changing gears,burnt fluid or strange noises are usually a good indication It’s time for a Heavy Duty rebuild. Tip: A 10 degree drop in fluid temp. doubles transmission life. — Mad Dog How do I know if my transmission is or going bad?

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P 1870 ‘Transmission Component Slipping’ in a 60E, the ECM looks for a 1:1 ratio in third gear with TCC locked up (or a 0.70 to 1 ratio in 4th with TCC locked); this is rato between engine RPM and output shaft RPM any discrepancy over a set amount for longer than a programmed interval will set the code

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – RE/ If it’s P1870 you need a new transmission Any idea what’s behind the number? I’ve got a little over 100k on my 4L50E and it’s been making the occasional out-of-the-ordinary sound. No codes yet (or, at least, the little "check engine" lite hasn’t gone off). My bias is towards premptive replacement if there’s any chance of catestrophic failure. — PeteCresswell

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Wow TransSurgeon, you’re a freakin genius. — Mad Dog

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – A couple mechanics did and could not see anything.  When my engine light   came off the first time the mechanic had cleared off and said it was transmission slipeage, but the others, even the Chevrolet Dealer could not see that on their computer. They also told me that is would not show    anything like that. they’re full of shit

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it is automatic – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – is it a manual or auto? Slipping, hesitation engaging or changing gears,burnt fluid or strange noises are usually a good indication It’s time for a Heavy Duty rebuild. Tip: A 10 degree drop in fluid temp. doubles transmission life. — Mad Dog How do I know if my transmission is or going bad?

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How do I know if my transmission is or going bad?

You most likely need a new transmission.  Go to the nearest Autozone or NAPA and have them scan your computer for codes.  Ten bucks says P1870 rears it’s ugly head. Doc

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A couple mechanics did and could not see anything.  When my engine light   came off the first time the mechanic had cleared off and said it was transmission slipeage, but the others, even the Chevrolet Dealer could not see that on their computer. They also told me that is would not show    anything like that. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – How do I know if my transmission is or going bad? You most likely need a new transmission.  Go to the nearest Autozone or NAPA and have them scan your computer for codes.  Ten bucks says P1870 rears it’s ugly head. Doc

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A couple mechanics did and could not see anything.  When my engine light   came off the first time the mechanic had cleared off and said it was transmission slipeage, but the others, even the Chevrolet Dealer could not see that on their computer. They also told me that is would not show    anything like that.

they’re full of shit

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RE/ If it’s P1870 you need a new transmission

Any idea what’s behind the number? I’ve got a little over 100k on my 4L50E and it’s been making the occasional out-of-the-ordinary sound. No codes yet (or, at least, the little "check engine" lite hasn’t gone off). My bias is towards premptive replacement if there’s any chance of catestrophic failure. — PeteCresswell

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A couple mechanics did and could not see anything.  When my engine light   came off the first time the mechanic had cleared off and said it was transmission slipeage, but the others, even the Chevrolet Dealer could not see that on their computer. They also told me that is would not show    anything like that.

What code did he clear off?  Next time you get the light, follow my instructions and get the codes read for FREE at Autozone or NAPA.  If it’s P1870 you need a new transmission or a complete rebuild.  This is a known issue with the 4L60e transmission. Doc – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – How do I know if my transmission is or going bad? You most likely need a new transmission.  Go to the nearest Autozone or NAPA and have them scan your computer for codes.  Ten bucks says P1870 rears it’s ugly head. Doc

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is it a manual or auto?

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Slipping, hesitation engaging or changing gears,burnt fluid or strange noises are usually a good indication It’s time for a Heavy Duty rebuild. Tip: A 10 degree drop in fluid temp. doubles transmission life. — Mad Dog How do I know if my transmission is or going bad?

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What kind strange noices?  I am sorry, I don’t understand your tip. can you be more specific please?  I am sorry, but I have bought my car just a week ago,  traded two cars for it and now this.  There is no warranty, and I feel screwed.  I am single mom and do not understand much engines and my family lives over seas.  Please be a little detailed about the conditions.  I have noticed a leak under my transmission, maybe the pen.   Transmission seems to changing OK, but after getting hot it changes harder. It feels like a jerking. thanks for any advice – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Slipping, hesitation engaging or changing gears,burnt fluid or strange noises are usually a good indication It’s time for a Heavy Duty rebuild. Tip: A 10 degree drop in fluid temp. doubles transmission life.

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How do I know if my transmission is or going bad?

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Slipping, hesitation engaging or changing gears,burnt fluid or strange noises are usually a good indication It’s time for a Heavy Duty rebuild. Tip: A 10 degree drop in fluid temp. doubles transmission life. — Mad Dog

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