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Re: [oletrucks] AC vs Champion Plugs

To: Deve Krehbiel <dkrehbiel@kscable.com>
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] AC vs Champion Plugs
From: "A.B." <bigfred@unm.edu>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 09:15:14 -0700 (MST)
I believe there is a difference, changed in '51 maybe?
The latches are also different.
> 
> Can anyone tell me if the door striker plate (the one on the cab) is
> different between 1950 and 1954? I am putting 54 doors (I like the push
> button and vent windows) on my latest 50 and cant seem to get the doors to
> latch.
> 
> Deve Krehbiel
> Hesston, Kansas
> 1950 3100 * 1949 3600 * 1948 4400 * 50 3100
> www.speedprint.com/Deves50/index.html
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Mendonca" <mm@service-quality.com>
> To: "Oletrucks Board" <oletrucks@autox.team.net>; "B&A Kettunen"
> <bekett@uslink.net>; <owner-oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 1:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [oletrucks] AC vs Champion Plugs
> 
> 
> > Has anyone talked with someone from Champion about this?  Just curious.
> >
> > Michael
> > '54 Chevy 3100
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, January 3, 1940, B&A Kettunen <bekett@uslink.net> wrote:
> > >I feel a little better about it now.  At least I'm not the only one who
> has
> > >had problems with Champion plugs.
> > >
> > >Bruce Kettunen
> > >57 3200
> > >Mt. Iron, MN
> > >
> > >>I had a 1942 H-D flathead that would only run on AC plugs.  Champions
> would
> > >>last only a few miles.  It would run forever on ACs.  I recently bought
> a
> > >>GMC with a 228 that turned over but would not start.  It had Champions.
> > >>Replaced them with ACs, started right up.
> > >>
> > >>Woody
> > >>53 GMC 5W
> > >>----- Original Message -----
> > >>From: <MKlepp4335@cs.com>
> > >>To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
> > >>Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 9:28 AM
> > >>Subject: Re: [oletrucks] No Spark, Where to Start Looking?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>> In a message dated 11/13/00 10:33:57 PM Central Standard Time,
> > >>> bekett@uslink.net writes:
> > >>>
> > >>> << At the risk of starting a Champion vs AC plug war, I will state
> that
> > >>old
> > >>> Champions seem to be much more prone to internal shorts that bleed off
> the
> > >>> spark. >>
> > >>>
> > >>> I was always a Champion user until recent intermittent spark problems.
> My
> > >>> FLAPS told me to try ACs, and since, I've had no more spark problems.
> I
> > >>> guess I'm converted.
> > >>>
> > >>> Mike Klepp
> > >>> '48 3100
> > >>> Wichita Falls, TX
> > >>> http://www.geocities.com/mike_klepp/october_truckpage.html
> > >>> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and
> 1959
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941
> > >and 1959
> > >
> > >
> > >oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941
> > >and 1959
> > >
> >
> > oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
> 
> oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
> 

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