13 Apr 12 16:25, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:



 RW>> I was a product of the 50s, when 'hot rod' fever got into my blood
 RW>> and the place to be at the time was in California. That was true
 RW>> into the 70s before California began to regulate engine emissions,
 RW>> retro-fitting old cars with emission 'improvement' BS! There was a
 RW>> time when, if you knew someone' - you could remove emission
 RW>> equipment and still pass the 'visual' test. If need be, a clean
 RW>> exhaust car could pass the emission test in place of yours...all of
 RW>> that was legislated out of existence and is impossible these days.
 RW>> The only way out of testing these days, unless the DMV caught onto
 RW>> it, is to register your vehicles in a non-emission testing area. I
 RW>> did that for the last 5 years of my residency in CA.

 MH> Not sure what happened to that state.  Too many Hollywood limo
 MH> liberals and hippies I guess.

Key word there; liberals. After Reagan's term as governor, there was one
more conservative govenor after him and then the liberals took over as the
'homos' began to excercise their political agenda. With SF's 'Willy'
Brown, Gerry Brown, Grey Davis, etc...Swarzeneggar called them 'girly'
boyz...

 RW>> Plug wires.

 MH> Yup.

 RW>> When I was 16, I owned a 1940 Ford and worked {at} a local dairy as a
 RW>> soda jerk. Forget why, but after work one night in the dark, I
 RW>> opened the hood of that car to see sparks flying from the wires to
 RW>> the head (ground). In retrospect, I've often wondered how that
 RW>> engine even ran with those wires.

 MH> Could be a nice display for the 4th of July.

Heh...it didn't help much that Ford ran those wires through a metal pipe
on their way to each spark plug.

 RW>>  RW>> Are the tanks aluminum or plastic?
 RW>>
 RW>>  MH> From what I can tell, the entire thing is aluminum.  The
 RW>> overflow
 RW>>  MH> tank is separate and is plastic.  The pipes into the radiator
 RW>> look to
 RW>>  MH> be plastic.
 RW>>
 RW>> ATF lines = pipes? Or the hose from the overflow tank?

 MH> The upper hose that goes to the top of the radiator is clamped onto
 MH> the plastic opening.  I'll have to inspect the other connections
 MH> closer.  The radiator is aluminum, but at the very least the opening
 MH> to the tank is plastic.  I don't recall what the old one was made of
 MH> at that location.

Sounds like a 'direct' replacement of what you had before it died.

 RW>> That's good. Hopefully the internal ATF cooler line is aluminum too.

 MH> Not knowing what the old one was made out of - or how it failed, I'm
 MH> not sure if this new radiator is better or not.

 MH> I'll try and lookup the 2001 Durango factory radiator specs.

 RW>> LOL! After the first day of that, they'd tell you to take a bus or
 RW>> commuter train...

 MH> I'll make sure I buy a service item each time.  Whatever is the
 MH> cheapest item on the service price list.  Maybe have them check the
 MH> tire pressure each day after my tows.  :)

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