Not A Titanic but close... customer came for a exhaust problem (pipe 1 to 3) but he will go back home with a semi rebuit engine (and some other stuff), everything was falling apart, rust was so bad that when the 4 negine bolt were removed, the engine was still standing there!!! the core was warped at the mating surface where it meet the trany (rust between the core and trany), so bad that we had to "surfaced" the core. unique owner, bought in 88 for 31k$ CAD. Many winter. A very nice men, his dream was to cross Canada and the USA, sadly, his sister died this week and he won't go for now, but i have fix his van so one day, he will be able to do so without any major problems... the men is 72 years old, what a gentlemen! http://www.benplace.com/gilles.htm Best regards, Ben (working like a dog at 100F, 95% humidity, 97th engines) http://www.benplace.com/ |
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