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| | | Re: 85 Dodge "Root Beer" | Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 6,261 Bad Girls from New York, Bad Western Inn in IN. | Bad Girls from New York, Bad Western Inn in IN. Joined: Sep 2002 Posts: 6,261 | hee--that's cause of the identity crisis Snotty and I are having--'PORTER' would be much more well behaved!!! hee hee
Just picking on ya Nate-- hope you are able to get it all worked out before the Nats!
Suzie
Cherish your friends! HUGGS to all! Suzie
| | | Re: 85 Dodge "Root Beer" | Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 3,434 | Joined: Jan 2008 Posts: 3,434 | Seems like I keep taking steps backwards on this van. This weekend I installed new front shocks and installed new wiper linkage bushings and dialed in the trans. kickdown linkage. Good there.
Now..the A/C has stopped working (leaked out) and the brake pedal goes almost to the floor, the trans. still has a leak, AND now the damn engine won't idle right! I think that new carb. I put on is starting to take a crap. Oh yeah...I have a hellacious vibration at highway speeds too.
It's cursed I tells ya!
*sigh*
At least my conversion van is running great. I'm in the same boat with ya nate. My brake light has been on since I bought the van (pretty sure back brakes aren't doing anything), my tail lights get brighter when I hit the gas, and I'm hearing weird noises that I don't hear often enough to even guess where they're coming from. maybe it's just my antenna whipping around, and I broke my new spoiler already, either way I feel the same as you. Every time I put something new on something else breaks. I want to yell at the van "he hates these parts!" kind of like in the jerk, "he hates these cans!"
I go to Truck-ins. How about you?
| | | Re: 85 Dodge "Root Beer" | Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,815 veteran | veteran Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 2,815 | club just luke and a few | | | Re: 85 Dodge "Root Beer" | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 6,502 Li'l Blue Wagon | Li'l Blue Wagon Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 6,502 | | | | Re: 85 Dodge "Root Beer" | Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,463 Likes: 12 pooh-bah | pooh-bah Joined: Mar 2007 Posts: 4,463 Likes: 12 | Wow, those are a lot alike. Did you think to ask who did the oval conversion windows? He's also got nearly the same idea for a tube grille that I have, only his tubes were longer, so he removed the entire center trim. I like the sea chest and the overhead console switch center. He's rearranged the electronics modules on the firewall and added a small battery isolator too from the looks of it. Also looks like there's no air con... that's no fun!!
Clear skies!
-It's been such a LONG TIME... BlueShift>> 1981 Dodge Ram B250 Custom Sportsman Maxi Van It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts... Are you living to work, or working to live? Learning from my own mistakes is good, learning from yours would be much better! | | | Re: 85 Dodge "Root Beer" | Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 9,428 Likes: 2 carpal tunnel | carpal tunnel Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 9,428 Likes: 2 | Would be nice to see those two side by side at the nats!
Loonie Toon Truckers... New Jersey Chapter | | | Re: 85 Dodge "Root Beer" | Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 6,502 Li'l Blue Wagon | Li'l Blue Wagon Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 6,502 | Well I do know that this one is for sale. I believe he is asking $7900. I offered $5500 and got a funny smile/smurk... But man is this one ever clean, I mean super clean. He pulls the headers off every 2 years and paints them. And same with the brakes, and alot of other stuff. It is very well cared for, and it shows. A beauty of a 79 she is. | | | Re: 85 Dodge "Root Beer" | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 21,211 Likes: 25 Supreme Master | OP Supreme Master Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 21,211 Likes: 25 | Oh wow..she's sweet. I'd be embarrassed to park next to that van.
Nate Breece | | | Re: 85 Dodge "Root Beer" | Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 2,841 veteran | veteran Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 2,841 |
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