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Old 05-11-2012, 12:12 AM
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Hasn't been my experience.

This one could have been my truck in its prime. Color and everything. It's like, uncanny, man.



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Old 05-11-2012, 12:23 AM
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Did you "Live in a van down by the River"?
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Old 05-11-2012, 12:29 AM
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River?! More like the railroad tracks.
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Old 05-11-2012, 12:31 AM
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River?! More like the railroad tracks.
Heard that....
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Old 05-11-2012, 01:24 AM
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River?! More like the railroad tracks.
Wrong side or right side?
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Old 05-11-2012, 01:30 AM
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Depends . . .
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Old 05-11-2012, 02:02 AM
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The full sized Chevy van of that era is one of the worst POS ever made. It will nickel and dime you to death. A Ford would be a much better choice. I would avoid the light duty version of either one.
Ford? They were pretty equal in that regard, but I thought the Chevy had a better ride.

Besides, no one ever wrote a hit song about making love in a Ford van.

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Old 05-11-2012, 12:42 PM
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amazing. The astro is fixed.

So what happened is I spent something like 3 weeks pulling double axle trailers all over creation in the hills of western CT with the astro, and the stress on the motor managed to back out all 6 spark plugs a bit, so they were just past hand tight.

It was suffering from low compression on all cylinders and running like crap from this, however, a compression test shows perfect compression across the board at 195k with the spark plug hole properly sealed.

Re-torqued all the spark plugs, sucker runs like a top again. dam spark, who woulda thought? with a diesel, I wouldn't have to worry about "spark".

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