Dan,
Sorry I didn't say something about your continued well being. Cars are
replaceable, people are not.
Keep safe and don't tailgate.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Neuman" <dneuman@quark.sfsu.edu>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: OT-thanks for the thoughts and Jag crud
> Hello All,
> I just wanted to say thanks to the many people who wrote me personally to
tell
> me that they were glad Irene and I are okay.
> To the several people who wrote me to tell me that I'm a total schmuck for
not
> checking out the car before I bought it and didn't even mention that they
were
> glad that we were okay I say.....
> I brought the car first to a jiffy lube where they changed the oil
> drained the tranny and filled it, drained the rear diff and filled it and
> greased all the fittings. There was a slight metallic sheen in both the
> rear diff and tranny fuild and it was pretty obvious that the dif oil had
> not been changed lately and it was low. There were no big metal chunks or
> flakes in either.
> We then took it to his mechanic who had been working on the car for
> the past five years and put it up on the lift and checked it out. The
> conversion did not look like a hack job from underneath except for the
clamp
> that held the shifter cable. All the suspension stuff was nice and tight
> the wheel bearings were fine the tires had good tread and there was no
rust.
> The engine ran well shifted well and stopped great.
> I asked the mechanic if there were any problems with the car that he knew
> of he said besides the leaky diff and the noisy pinion bearings and the
valve
> seals needing to be replaced there was nothing wrong with the car. This
is the
> person who put in the new master cylinder.
> On this info we bought and kept the car. The rear end will need to be
> rebuilt inthe near future so the seller is giving us 400 bucks back.
> I thought that we had checked out the car well enough but at the time I
> did not know about the brake lines being too close to the exhaust.
>
> Daniel 69 2000
> SF CA
>
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