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Well at least we know what to buy now.

I've got another dog story for all the animal lovers out there. About a month ago this little red nosed bull dog shows up at my Mom's house, she lives in a dog dumping neighborhood- lots of houses with white picket fences and kids playing everywhere. I brought him home with me while she ran an add in the local paper, no response. I put him on a couple of Bully Rescue sites and made him a facebook page. After 3 weeks I got someone interested in him. Drove an hour and a half to meet them and noticed a BAMAZON tag on the husbands truck. They fell in love with the puppy so I started loading his crate and some toys he played with into his truck when I asked him if he knew the guys on the show BAMAZON, he says "I am one of the guys"! So that little puppy now lives with a TV star on 50 acres of land on Lake Martin in south Alabama with a little boy too. If you've ever seen the show it is Darrel's dog now. Good ending for everybody.

That's how to take care of something right there. My covers are covered with grease and other smudgy looking stuff, I'm out of room in my garage so I pile stuff on top of the cars. Yes that is cool, I'm jealous.

The 240 came with a complete rubber seal kit from MSA. That's my springtime project for sure, the hatch seal is barely there and around the doors it's coming apart too. My Dad and step monster are on their 3rd Pug, names Milo, he's a black one instead of fawn. Faints like those goats do only he does it when he gets hot instead of startled like the goats. It doesn't sound too funny but the Vet says it's common so we laugh like hell when he does it then carry him inside to a cold tub of water, then he's back snorting! Love those dogs.

How sad. Luckily she wasn't that bad and it only lasted for a minute or two. I really hope your dog gets better BGM. Cliff & Jelly

It's like the Canary in a coal mine. Advice taken! Thanks.

We went to the Tennessee line yesterday, enjoying the sunny weather. My dog loves to ride in the back so she climbed back there and took a nap. It was almost "The Big Nap". Cold weather had the windows up and the fumes got to her after a couple of hours. When I stopped to let her use the bathroom she was slow to get out and when she did she was as high as a kite, not from me it was the fumes, walking sideways and acting lethargic. Gotta remember to crack a window.

That looks great. I've got a small crack on the bottom of mine and would like to fix it too. Plastex, never heard of that so thanks for the info.

Performance camshafts for L28?

The one I bought has a black valve cover and since having it I've noticed a lot of the others have them as well. Would that be the original color? Does the black reduce the heat somehow? Thanks for any replies.

You're about to go back in time with your new purchase. Glad your here, you're going to be helpful to all of us. Thanks in advance.

I did a google "IMAGES" search and found one of the diagrams. Try that.

Run away.

I got no help/info but I like what your doing and can't wait to print out the finished timeline.

Yes they do make a huge mess when I spin the filter off. The one I took off yesterday, without the valve, didn't. Oil level stayed close enough too. I'm hoping for a quite start up this morning.

I get my fuel for my 4 vehicles from the same Gas Station. The '77 280 had a problem that was fixed by putting the potentiometer in line with the coolant sensor. I've actually done this. Maybe "drift" wasn't the right choice for a word so I'll just say it was broken and now it's not.

Yea it's drifted out of spec is what I read. Mine ran terrible between idle and 2500 RPM, it wouldn't even spin the tires from a dead stop. I first thought it was the TPS though. I did what Fastwoman and Zed Head suggested, also on Atlantic Z's tips for fuel. I'm so glad I did too, made mine run like it should. Cheap and easy to do, the way I like it! http://atlanticz.ca/zclub/techtips/tempsensorpot/index.html

I changed the oil in my '87 Hardbody this weekend and have used a Fram Tough Guard filter from Walmart with that rubber flap that keeps the oil from running back through the filter to the pan. They weren't in stock and I wound up buying one from Advance AP without that flap. At start up this morning I heard that old familiar sound again, a short "clackity clacking", valves I suppose. It has 300,000 miles on it and I'm waiting on it to finally quit running before I tear it apart. I didn't put a lot of thought in those flapped filters, kind of a sales pitch thing to me, but I do now! Makes a difference on my truck on cold starts.

Does anybody still sale the factory accessory styled stripe? I don't like the blocked looking one MSA has and one of my rust spots is under the rear of the driver's door stripe.

I'd go ahead without that other line up pin. And I think all that grease/oil is because of the oil pump and timing chain being behind all that. They all will do it. Clean it then see how soon it comes back, you could have a torn gasket around the front cover.

Tom Monroe "How to Rebuild your L motor" pp.118, "Oil the side seals and insert them into their grooves with the lips pointing toward the block."

After the spring oil change I'd use Valvoline VR1 10W30 Racing Oil, not for street use because of the converters, from O'rielly's. Seems like they had the best price and not all of them stock it, but can get it overnight. It's kinda expensive is why I say not for the 1st change.

Ruger wasn't involved in that crash was he? Sorry to hear your bad news. I broke my ankle in '85 and had the third ankle bone fusion done in 12/'01 and am about to have it done again, in the next few months. They seem to wear out the more active you are. I truly hope yours wasn't too bad, you'll feel that pain every time you take a step. All the best on the re mending and repairing. Cliff

That sums it up perfectly! I now get the handle "Hardway".

They keep me out of jails and hospitals.