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Old 06-01-2021, 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by t walgamuth View Post
The subframes on early 107 cars failed and they were steel. I believe any metal can fail if over stressed.
Metal fatigue is hard to get away from. Material fatigue in general. Painful thing for me in these old rigs is the way the small things break. Right now my '89 Chevy van is running great. Also, in short order the cruise control and windshield washer pump thing stopped working. Weird thing on the washer pump, I pulled the two wire jack off the motor and put my multimeter probes in it, was going to see if 12 volts went there when I gave the switch a turn. Funny thing, it read 12 volts w/o the switch (?!). Also my high beams don't work. Even the low beams go out when I hit the high beam switch. Gremlins, gremlins, they drive me nuts. I wonder how many cars land at the boneyard owing to unfindable gremlins.
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