Re: IML: Installation Techniques: Front Shocks 1968

[RandalPark@xxxxxxx]

That sounds like a great idea, Kate!

What about those front shocks anyway? I haven't had to replace them myself. When the shop did mine a few weeks back, they didn't make any negative comments when I picked up my car. The bill was cheap, I paid for it, and everything is fine. 

Now, I seem to remember my Dad having a terrible time with them back in 1971 on my mother's LeBaron (now, and still, sitting apart in their garage from other work gone wrong).

I seem to remember him taking all kinds of stuff apart under the hood to get the job done. Maybe he didn't follow the directions in the FSM. I always wondered, but was afraid to ask what went wrong that day. The car was fine when he was done, but it took weeks for him to say anything nice about that car.

About the Automatic Transmission, I had mine rebuilt a couple of weeks ago also. Without any words from me, they seemed to have solved the "loosy goosy" shift lever syndrome that the car had went I first got it. Knowing what I do about my shop, I assume that they didn't do anything inside the car. What ever they did must have been external. My mechanic wasn't there when I picked up the car, so I haven't mentioned it yet, but it is a lot nicer to drive now that the gear selector lever stays put while driving down the road!

Paul W.

In an email dated 23/8/2005 3:15:20 pm GMT Daylight time, "Kate Triplett" <ad_ablurr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>First, thanks Bill, you said it well.
>
>I have been too darn busy to read the (apparently uninterrupted) rantings on this subject for several days now - been just blowing off the digests, as the folks who refuse to learn how to SNIP the entire damn digest from their replies make it a LOOOOONNNNGGG scroll through interminable repetitions to read the bare snippets of actual info in a given digest. But that's a completely separate rant, eh?
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>I've personally never been completely in love with the greenish variations on the late 60s-early 70s fashion theme, either - but it sure does mark the era, like it or not. I even have an antique sewing machine cabinet that was painted (slathered, rather) with that gawd-awful avocado "antiquing kit" paint.... I fear I will never get it all out of the lovely oak.....
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>But for crying out loud, what is the big deal here? My Grandma always said that if you can't find something nice to say, you should probably not say anything. I have found her to be entirely correct in this, though I have at times failed to live up to her high standards.
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>Let's talk about transmission adjustments on the '68 Torqueflite 727, or installation techniques for front shocks on a '68, or something else interesting!
>
>Kate Justet Triplett
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>Proud mother of a soldier
>and owner of "Lucille" 1968 Crown (SOVEREIGN GOLD!! with Antique Gold leather:>))) 
>
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