Recent content by 3406pk

I have been retired for 17 years now and my wife for 5. Here are some things we have discovered. Definitely have good medical insurance. For us Medicare plus a Supplement plan works best. May cost a little more but safer. If you have most of your money in an IRA, keep 2 years worth of living...

I had another instance of compression into cooling system but not into oil this time. Found gasket ring pushed into water port. This time replaced head gasket with Cometic MLS gasket.

You think people are outraged about Health Co. CEO's. Wait until the whole bitcoin pyramid crumbles.

Plus they are blaming everybody else for polluting with carbon emissions.

Thanks a lot for your experience and response

I want to buy a better tool for separating ball joints for suspension work. I do not like the pickle forks as they damage rubber boot and have bent the threaded stud on stuck tapers. I saw these tools made by OTC, GearWrench, KD tools, and others. Do they work on upper and lower ball joints...

You would have less work to keep the pinions and gears to their respective cases as the pinions are set to case when dialed in and assembled. You can take the sure grip out of ring gear and swap it to the 3.23 ring gear. Then you only have to set backlash of the ring gear to pinion. That is...

I am sorry, I deleted the remark. I took his obsservation as criticism.

For oldmanmopar, I apologize I made a remark that I regret. No I am not happy that a roller on a lifter failed, but I bet you can't prove that the tensioner caused it either. I did not dispute anything you had said up to that post. I just posted my observation and experience.

My 408 on a 5.9L engine was built w the double roller chain and a mopar tensioner. I did a refresh after a lifter failure wiped the cam 10 years later. Cleaned up everything and reused the roller chain and tensioner. Almost no wear on the tensioner pad, just polished. Plus I like the bracket for...

Hey that's a full day for us retired folk.

This morning our furnace is really noisy, yesterday was a little bit loud. Got serviceman to check out and replaced blower motor. Glad we caught it before totally quit during this Artic blast, 28 below tonite.

Mecum has auction in Kansas City. Look at lot list and pick car. If it sells early in week, cars can be bought reasonable.