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Re: First post - Rubber bumper help

To: DLancer7676@cs.com, pomfretm@tampabay.rr.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: First post - Rubber bumper help
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 06:35:05 -0700 (PDT)
David,

You forgot the most iimportant thing with the 1500!
Oil Starvation! Boring out the oil galleries to
provide more oil to the mains and the rest of the
engine!

Dan


--- DLancer7676@cs.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/15/2000 11:54:19 PM Eastern
> Daylight Time, 
> pomfretm@tampabay.rr.com writes:
> 
> << what can anyone recommend to clean and restore
> the bumper. >>
> 
> Mark.  I drive a 1979 RB.  The rubber bumper can
> actually be filled and 
> sanded very similarly to the body.  My bumper is not
> in the best of shape, 
> but I  improved it with some sanding and painting
> with one of those "Rubber 
> Bumper" paints from Advance or one of the local
> suspects.  
> 
> As far as choice, if you have one, I would go for an
> earlier Chrome Bumper 
> model with the 1275 engine.  The early '70's models
> are sharp with their rear 
> round wheel arches.  I am running the 1500 and love
> it--it has carried me 
> long distances with relatively few problems and lots
> of power--but it has 
> been modified to the extent of having been de-toxed
> and the thrust washers on 
> the crank have been pinned to eliminate one of the
> most difficult problems of 
> the 1500.
> 
> Most of this post is arguable, of course (shut up
> Ed).
> 
> Good Luck.
> 
> --David C.


=====
Dan Dwelley
77 Midget
Alexandria, Va.

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