The Last Really Good Chrysler Product

Gives a whole new meaning to the word "woodpecker". 8^)

Bill Putney
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That could be true if he had an "accident" with a chain saw.

Bill Putney
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Thanks, James.

I forgot to mention that in Art's parallel universe, Christopher Reeve
is still dead (in spite of the ignorance and dishonesty of Ron Regan,
Jr. and Reeve's widow's in the disinformation campaign on the subject
and the Dem's employment of them as useful idiots - sorry - there's no
other term for what they are doing), and Libya still maintains an
arsenal of WMD's.

Bill Putney
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| James C. Reeves wrote:
|
| > |
| > | Oh yes - I know, Art, how in a parallel universe in which the PoTUS was
| > | Gore or Kerry for the last 4 years the Islamists are all just peace and
| > | love, 9/11 never happened, flu shots are abounding, women still can't
| > | vote in Afghanistan, Afghanistan no longer produces poppies as the raw
| > | materials for it's biggest export, Kofi Anan's son stopped making
| > | under-the-table deals with France and Germany in the Oil for Food
| > | program which was their motivation for blocking the taking out of Sadam,
| > | Sadam quit offering and paying suicide bomber/murderers' families for
| > | their loving acts against innocents, the DNC recalled it's policy of
| > | routing out voter fraud wherever they could find it and, where it didn't
| > | exist, to plant the idea that it did anyway in the minds of the public,
| > | everyone is covered by free cradle-to-grave health insurance while taxes
| > | have dropped to their lowest levels ever and the national debt has been
| > | wiped out, industry is being punished by disincentives to keep
| > | production in the U.S. yet they are magically doubling the size of all
| > | their U.S. production facilities every year, genocide was prevented by
| > | the UN in Sudan, U.S. unemployment figures match the double-digit
| > | numbers of France and Germany, and Al Franken and James Carville both
| > | have viable radio talk shows.
| > |
| > | I just can't wait for the Kerry Utopian society in which we need to pass
| > | the Global Approval Test before we take appropriate action in light of
| > | the Oil for Food stuff and absolute appalling UN inaction in Sudan (I
| > | guess they're waiting once again for the U.S. to go in and try to fix it
| > | so we get the blame for any and all problems and the other countries can
| > | continue to profit from the situation). Yes - we want a guy as
| > | President who met with the Viet Cong in Paris while the war was still
| > | going on - Yeah - that's my man for President! What a joke.
| > |
| > | Bill Putney
| > | (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
| > | adddress with the letter 'x')
| > |
| >
| > Well stated...
|
| Thanks, James.
|
| I forgot to mention that in Art's parallel universe, Christopher Reeve
| is still dead (in spite of the ignorance and dishonesty of Ron Regan,
| Jr. and Reeve's widow's in the disinformation campaign on the subject
| and the Dem's employment of them as useful idiots - sorry - there's no
| other term for what they are doing), and Libya still maintains an
| arsenal of WMD's.
|
| Bill Putney
| (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
| adddress with the letter 'x')
|

I thought Christopher Reeve was walking in his universe.

 

Nope - because there would be no solution from embryonic stem cell
research - Reeve himself acknowledged that. People are free to do
research with it if they wish to - it isn't forbidden like the Dems are
trying to make it sound. If the Dems are really convinced that there
would be benefit in the research and are genuinely concerned with
helping people (yeah, right!), looks like Soros and Heinz-Kerry could
pool a small fraction of their money for that (even though it would be a
big waste of money over what is being accomplished from adult stem cell
research). But, as we all know, the important thing isn't that people
are genuinely helped. What's important is that people are used and
confused.

Bill Putney
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No, Doc, I'll call you a ****. And I'll be right.

 

According to the road test (and the abovementioned former owner), the

The turbo engines are a lot more suited to vehicle use than the
naturally aspirated ones: they were idiots to use the NA version if
that's what they did. And in any event, the /6 in full size pickups
was an obstruction to traffic too, especially the three on the tree
ones. The SD33 or any other 3.3 liter (200 cid) engine was a smaller
engine than a fullsize truck should have if it is going to be used on
the highway at all. (Keep in mind a lot of pickups and vans in the old
days were sold to fleet buyers who never got out of town or up to
highway speeds and if it was faster than a horse they were happy.
People started buying pickups more for personal vehicles in the late
70s, but there was still a market segment totally unconcerned with
speed.)

 

Just wait. If Kerry gets elected and follows through on his promise to
raise taxes on business owners, just WATCH how fast the economy hits the
tanks. The miniscule reduction in the deficit (independent studies say
Kerry's plan will hit a 1.27 T, Bush's 1.33T- a vanishingly small
difference) will be nothing compared to the lost jobs and loss of
revenue stream flowing through the economy.

 

Daniel J. Stern wrote:

Every time the memory almost dies, someone has to go and resurrect that
clunker. Installing that engine (and I use the term loosely...) was one
of Chrysler's few all-out bloody screaming mistakes.

Accurate metaphor. Disturbing, and not easily purged from the mental
viewscreen, but accurate.

 

The road test I recall referred to "spewing unburned liquid diesel out
the tailpipe for 5 minutes after a start on a cold morning," and that
was assuming you could persuade it to start at all.

Being able to say "well, at least it wasn't an Oldsmobile diesel" is
damning with faint praise.

 

Ted Azito wrote:

The contemporary Ford diesel was naturally aspirated, and was actually
quite successful throughout the 80s. Yes, it got 200% better when they
finally hung a turbo on it, spurred by Dodge releasing the Cummins turbo
diesel, but it was perfectly acceptable as it was. The Nissan diesel was
not acceptable under any definition.

Uh... no.

 

YES! I'd forgotten about that, but now you mention it, I remember laughing
out loud and shaking my head when I read that.

 

Blowing raw fuel out after cold start is the symptom for glow plugs
not working or not used on prechamber engines. No mystery why they
wouldn't start.

That said the NA 3.3 was too small for the fullsize truck-unless you
never need to go over 50 mph as was the case for some in-town
vocational trucks. Many medium duty straight trucks were sold with
four cylinder Cumminses and three or four cylinder Detroits which
wouldn't do 55 mph with a van body up through the late sixties or
early seventies. Many bread vans with gas engines wouldn't either. Had
they used the turbo engine performance would have bettered the /6
which admittedly isn't saying much...

Properly used these are remarkable powerplants, but they are 200
CID...not 400.

 

Mm. So, three different sources telling the same fib due to malfunctioning
glow plugs on three different engines, eh? Obviously, because otherwise it
would mean the engines were garbage, and since Ted Azito says they are the
very paragon of automotive powerplant engineering, that couldn't
*possibly* be so. Ignore the utter market failure of the engine; that's
just a conspiracy to make Ted Azito look like he doesn't know what the
hell he's talking about.

....blah blah blah...

 

Except for the fact that this article was written in 1978 and it was a
BRAND NEW TRUCK!

Remarkably crappy, that is. The Cummins B5.9 is only 360 CID, and works
just great in vehicles more than 4x the weight of a D-100, so the fact
that its "only" 200 CID is no excuse.

 

You shouldn't need the glow plugs to ignite the fuel for very long after
engine start. It is also a symptom of a very poorly calibrated fuel
injection pump or improperly sized injectors.


Matt

 

Funny Bill, but in reality Bush has had only one successful policy in his
first (and most likely last term). It was the "Do Not Call" list. I
suspect he will go down in history as the Do Not Call President.

 

Gee.
I never knew they made a first !