At 10:04 PM 11/20/01 -0700, John McEwen wrote:
>.... Modern (and I include most automatics since 1961) are dead reliable
>and usually only need service as a result of abuse. ....
I'm sorry, I don't usully do this, but I can't stop myself. Some people
just live in fantasy land.
>I always remember what the owners manual of my '65 Valiant said about the
>transmission. "The Torqueflite transmission requires no servicing
>throughout the life of the vehicle". This was in the era of the first 5
>year - 50,000 mile warranties.
Yeah, that's more like it. At about 51,000 miles you get hit with the
headaches, unless it was replaced under warrantee a little earlier. Some
newer automatics (much newer) are better, but not that one.
$.02 worth of Nomex,
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude (and $99 gearbox rebuild every 100K miles)
http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
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