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From: Lawrence Swamp
Mine gives ME hope. I was laid off last May (09), the dicks thought it wuz good biz practice to challenge my unemployment compensation. It went on from then till Dec...0 income. Now I'm a soft handed desk jockey (no calluses, get it) n that lill' bob tail saved my butt. It skidded in logs for the band saw mill, jerked a Heavy safe (4X4X5') up an 8 ft wall n right outta some guy's basement! (granted it wuz on crete not dirt drive), pushed a lill dirt around landscapin, made my mortgage payment every sno (got bout 25 driveways on my st, n a gas station/mini mart on each end of the route) and on & on. I owe it, it don't owe me - it's paid it's way much bettern the wife ever did! N I threw her out, never the rig. Guys laugh @ it n ask me when I'll sell it (aint in 27 yrs) n when I'll put a real engine in it... soon as I get some $ to rebuild this '75 4.1 which seems 2 B outta a Grenade-a. Better stop here B 4 I let this roll I'm on B come a cascade.
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Funny thing about this engin is that everyone makes fun of it and so on and so forth. But as soon as i say grab a rope and puter in 4wd everyone seems to back off really fast. Granted if we raced anything would beet me, but they do know in my granny gear and 1200rmp is my world, and there probally not gonna beat me there.
Thanks for listen to my bs,
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From: Lawrence Swamp
Hey - 123!
It's not BS it's fact. And fact tells us...no cash 4 dis (non) clunker!
Lots of folks avoid the mechanical choke. Ele is pretty nice, the heat riser style good (esp if adapted as some have here), and the H2O choke is OK. I wanna adjust mine (ele) a little more (wish that guy didn't toss the heat riser pipe n bakelite passage etc in '87).
All random thoughts for ya 2 consider.
Cordially,
1290!
It's not BS it's fact. And fact tells us...no cash 4 dis (non) clunker!
Lots of folks avoid the mechanical choke. Ele is pretty nice, the heat riser style good (esp if adapted as some have here), and the H2O choke is OK. I wanna adjust mine (ele) a little more (wish that guy didn't toss the heat riser pipe n bakelite passage etc in '87).
All random thoughts for ya 2 consider.
Cordially,
1290!
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did you find the location of the cam sensor im having the same problem
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