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Old 10-13-2004, 10:55 PM
psfred psfred is offline
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If the rods are bent the pistons will be clanking in the cylinders and it will smoke -- this only takes a couple hundred miles at most to appear. Very nasty.

If it runs well, doesn't smoke, and has proper compression (get the compression test done!), buy it.

Nice car.

Peter
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