Hi everyone!
Just an update on Delores (my 61 Desoto 4 Dr.)
Got her running and gave the new motor a good break-in on her trip to Dallas TX.
while
delivering her to the vehicle processing plant, she'll now be trucked to L.A.
CA. to be loaded
on a ship to Okinawa Japan.
Personal notes on this:
Had the front end aligned before I left Clovis NM. and they screwed it all
up!!.....I thought
the guy who was doing it was competent on aligning older mopars...WRONG!!!!, he
set
both caster and camber to negative settings!! the car would squirrel all over
the place at the
smallest bump in the road, had car realigned in Lubbock TX. at a Firestone
dealer, he did a
super job!!! car drives itself down the road now...(note: (1) power steering/neg
caster...BAD!)
Transmission overhaul went off without a hitch!! (didn't even have to adjust the
kickdown
linkage!)....(note: (2) these cast iron pushbutton torqueflights are
bulletproof!!)
The entire trip to Dallas (approx 500-600 miles) went beautifully, not a hiccup
at all (I really
love this car now!!)....(note: (3) the extra 45 bucks to bump the new radiator
core to a 4 row
was well worth it, car runs nice and cool, even bored .030 over!)
Even my wife (who has been extremely critical of this car since I got it has
warmed up to her
tremendously....greatly helps the marriage!!!..hehehe)
All in all you could say I am one very happy camper these days!!! and again want
to thank
everyone on the list for their help and suggestions on the resurrection of my
beautiful finned
family member (can't keep my 7 year old daughter out of the back seat squealing
"let's go for
another ride daddy!!) makes it worth all the blood sweat and tears!!!
Desotoly Yours
J.S. Trudeau
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