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Old Jun 1, 2007 | 12:52 AM
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I'm just glad that it seems like he might be getting out of this mess, finally...
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Old Jun 3, 2007 | 01:54 PM
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I bet when he had his car in the shop the very first time , the jake legged mechanic decided to take this mother out for a cruise & just ran the dog-**** out of it and blew a head gasket. Thats happened to me before.
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Old Jun 3, 2007 | 02:01 PM
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I bet when he had his car in the shop the very first time , the jake legged mechanic decided to take this mother out for a cruise & just ran the dog-**** out of it and blew a head gasket. Thats happened to me before.
YUP. Hope thats not the case but its been looking that way from the beginning of the thread.


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Old Jun 3, 2007 | 05:17 PM
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I cant catch a fu*king break i sware. So the cars been running fine since the hose's were fixed and the air has been bled out. i drove down to the city for the weekend 3hr trip no problem, i go to the store get back to my girls house and i smell rubber burning i pop the hood and the hub for the crank is like poping off and i feel around it and its pretty loose get under the car and the bolt that hold the hub in is gone. WTF happened now guess ill find out tomorrow and get raped by another shop down here. i cant go a week with out having a problem with this car.
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Old Jun 3, 2007 | 06:34 PM
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ok not sure if its the hub or the Harmonic balancer the more i read and see pics of parts it looks like it the Harmonic balancer, could it have broke it stops turning and is burning the belts up because everything else is pulling but that....
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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 04:53 PM
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Ok so im back, The last problem was the A/C condensor & the guy wanted 1k to replace it so i just threw in a A/C delete pully, lil hot when im sitting in traffic but not to bad. Now it seems like the Alternator is going its squeeking and wineing like crazy and im going to have to rplace it what kind of alternator should i got with? i was looking at Powermaster but not sure on the amp's i should run, cars stock but i would like to throw a little system in there some day. So what do you all think? also hows the install im gonna attempt this one my self because i got my hemi ram back now so my camaro is not being used as much.
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Old Jul 12, 2007 | 05:08 PM
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Also any Supporting vendors that sell them please let me know where to look i only looked at summit
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