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Date:         Mon, 16 Feb 2004 14:16:21 -0500
Reply-To:     MilosKitchen <sagmoore@ZOOMINTERNET.NET>
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From:         MilosKitchen <sagmoore@ZOOMINTERNET.NET>
Subject:      A Sad Day
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Well, its finally over. On Saturday on my '87 Syncro, the steel high pressure line for the power steering decided it had had enough and blew ATF all over the street. I contacted Frank Condelli about the high pressure hoses, but I won't need 'em now, (sorry, Frank).

Yesterday (Sunday) on a small road trip, it suddenly stuck in third gear (oh great, bad 3-4 slider). I pulled over and shut it off, and was finally able to yank it back out of gear. I made it home by shifting from 2nd to 4th; know how hard it is to resist automatically putting it in 3rd? Made that mistake. Wife in silence by my side.

So... with only 1 out of three vans now running, it was decision time. Today, under their own power, we drove the '91 standard and the Syncro to Wagner's foreign auto parts (Ph. 724-368-8831, about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh PA on Rt. 19), and traded them for a '90 Subaru 2.2L engine and all the trimmings, which I will install sometime in April in the remaining '91 Carat. The '91 standard leaving wasn't a problem, but my 4 year old daughter was crying when she learned the Syncro (Buster) was going away. Bad thing to personify these things, you know?

Other than dealing with Wagner for years buying MG, Sunbeam, Rabbit and Volvo parts, I have no other association with them. Lots of good parts (VC etc.) left on both of them.

Too much to do, too little room and too little time to keep 'em all.

Dave Milo


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