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Re: New to the group and curious about prices

To: Tom Hendricksen <tom@fransfancies.com>,
Subject: Re: New to the group and curious about prices
From: Adam Bradley <ambradley@attbi.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 20:12:57 -0700
The parts listed at carparts.com and others are wrong.  Often they are for 
the L series or H20.  They will not fit your car. $500 would be great 
except you can't get the parts new from Nissan anymore, so you are forced 
to pay whatever the seller asks or go without.  Generally only the vendors 
have spare sets and they want a lot for them, laws of supply and demand and 
the like.

At 07:38 PM 5/30/2002 -0700, Tom Hendricksen wrote:
>I am a "newbie" to the group, having recently acquired a 69 2000 in
>"fair" condition, at least better than the beginning of most project
>cars I have seen on the web, but stored for 15 years.  I have also been
>reading some of the excellent web pages and learning as much as I can
>while remembering working on my 68 & 70 2000's 30 or more years ago.
>For those of you who have invested a lot of time and knowledge in these
>pages, THANK YOU.
>
>One area that has caught my attention is the timing chain and related
>sprockets, which I did have the pleasure of reworking along with the
>head, etc., on my 68.   The cost I see quoted for these parts today is
>fairly steep.  I think $500.00 is reasonable to do the job right.  I
>just took a look at Carparts.com (JC Whitney) and found that it appears
>that these components, including the oil tensioner, can be had for
>something in the vicinity of $100.00 or so.  What is the difference in
>quality or reliability that would prevent someone from using these parts
>??
>
>Tom Hendricksen
>SRL311-12401
>
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Adam Bradley
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