Either don't talgate, or else tailgate REAL CLOSE and use the other guy's
brakes! ;-)
Gordon Glasgow
Renton, WA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of datsunmike
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 4:30 PM
> To: Daniel Neuman; datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: OT-thanks for the thoughts and Jag crud
>
>
> 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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