| Re: [GMCnet] Transmissions drying out due to long inactivity [message #325210 is a reply to message #325202] |
Fri, 20 October 2017 16:26   |
Kingsley Coach
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Registered: March 2009
Location: Nova Scotia Canada
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Sammy...you bought the Bluesmobile !!
So who sold it to you, Jake or Elwood?
Mike in NS
On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Sammy Williams wrote:
> I haven't heard of that one, it may happen though. I have a 1974 Dodge
> Monaco, ex cop car. bought it after it sat almost 35 years. Put a new
> battery in it, fresh fuel and a little maintenance, fired right up and
> drove it out of the hole in the ground it was apparently burying itself in.
>
> Changed tires and some other rubber parts, still runs fine.
>
> The Transmission, a 727 Torqueflight, came to life as if someone had just
> parked it 5 minutes earlier. :D
>
> Sammy
>
> On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Bob Dunahugh
> wrote:
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>> Anyone ever heard that one? Our 78 GMC sat outside in Iowa from Oct of
>> 1996 to Oct of 2015. 20 years. Went on 3 trips with it. Worked fine. I
>> changed it as a prevention due to miles/age. The 73 GMC we have sat
>> outside in Iowa from Sept of 1998 to 2015. Both are original trans. It
>> too works fine. Bob Dunahugh
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Michael Beaton
1977 Kingsley 26-11
1977 Eleganza II 26-3
Antigonish, NS
Life is too short to hold a grudge; slash some tires and call it even !
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