The Olds Wagon's suspension is all new since I bought the car. It consists of the heaviest duty front and rear coils to be found for the cars. Rear air/coil-over shocks, and air bags, installed inside the rear coil springs rated at 6500 lbs by themselves. As far as the hitch is concerned it's a home made job, done by the previous owner. The thing is bolted to the frame in about six places, as well as to the rear bumper. It's made of heavy box tubing, and 2"angle iron spanning from the center of the back where the hitch is, outward towards the frame rails where the suspension is mounted. I don't know exactly what the guy used to pull with the car, but it had to be big. The car came to me with a tranny and an oil cooler, as well as extra filters on the lines going in each cooler unit. It had a leaky set of air bags in the rear coil springs when I bought it, so I bumped up two ratings when having my new bags installed into the new coil springs.

All of the brakes and tires on the car are brand new. Brakes I did, because the master cylinder went bad, so I had them check the four corners while they put in the new master and replaced two leaky lines. The brakes all ended up getting done with all new parts. The car came with the brand new tires on it. I've dumped more dough into the wagon, just in rear suspension than I paid for it and surely more than it's worth in any book. I don't care, because the car is spotless, and tight as a virgin in every respect. At some point recently I think the previous owner had the front end rebuilt. The car is good to go as far as handling the load is concerned but as I said, power over-all, will always be lacking. Unfortunately there aren't and never were any real optios for power improvements on those gas conversion engines. Wish I could turbo it, but it's been tried time and time again, by many people on the Olds 350 Diesel shop forum and all they ended up doing was grenading the engine and having a nice boat anchor in the end...

Nick

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