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Old Feb 2, 2012 | 06:05 PM
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I vote for ban.

+1 how could you say such a thing.

On a happy note found a abs modular so it should be here this time next week.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 08:39 AM
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Fingers crossed.. I know you hate having to let it sit.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 09:33 AM
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Have you two picked out a china pattern yet?
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 09:37 AM
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Originally Posted by tommy
Have you two picked out a china pattern yet?
We did not get married in Vegas..

Now Karo on the other hand..
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 09:39 AM
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Now Karo on the other hand..
Odd choice of words.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 09:40 AM
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Originally Posted by samaritrey
+1 how could you say such a thing.

On a happy note found a abs modular so it should be here this time next week.
Pleased you found one.

Ah! - can see those long slim Canadian legs have made an impression.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 10:02 AM
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Originally Posted by Glyn M Ruck
Ah! - can see those long slim Canadian legs have made an impression.
On Trey maybe.. but I think it's more along the lines of her huge and technically flawless vocals. Her best look in Vegas was without really showing legs at all:



Pure class.
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Old Feb 3, 2012 | 07:22 PM
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Yeah driving a qx56 is very different then my lovely c320.
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Old Feb 6, 2012 | 11:11 AM
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You think? What year model?
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Old Feb 6, 2012 | 01:16 PM
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You think? What year model?
It is an 04 so the one based on the titan truck. I will say that it drive very well for such a big vehicle and stops well too. Lets not talk about fuel mileage that is another story.
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Old Feb 11, 2012 | 12:05 AM
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So the part came in today and I installed it cleared all the errors and car is great. Put about 10 miles on it and so far so good. So we shall see how long that lasts. I do have a rear shock that is leaking so I need to get a new one as well as fix the dam squeaking brakes lol
It is so nice to drive the benz again I am so ****ing happy right now
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Originally Posted by LILBENZ230
On Trey maybe.. but I think it's more along the lines of her huge and technically flawless vocals. Her best look in Vegas was without really showing legs at all:



Pure class.
Yes - pitch & more importantly vocal intonation makes her a class act. I originally heard some "from the desk" recordings of her Titanic theme that she was not happy with. Then she got a voice coach who's name escapes me to get the intonation correct & we all know the result!
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Originally Posted by samaritrey
So the part came in today and I installed it cleared all the errors and car is great. Put about 10 miles on it and so far so good. So we shall see how long that lasts. I do have a rear shock that is leaking so I need to get a new one as well as fix the dam squeaking brakes lol
It is so nice to drive the benz again I am so ****ing happy right now
Good new! She lives to fight on.
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Old Feb 11, 2012 | 04:15 PM
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Yeah she lives hopefully for the next 20 years with just oil changes and tires oh and lots of gas
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Yeah she lives hopefully for the next 20 years with just oil changes and tires oh and lots of gas
How rude - how dare you say that about Celine!
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Old Feb 11, 2012 | 08:01 PM
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How rude - how dare you say that about Celine!


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That was pretty good, Tommy.. I hope Celine lives on well past just 20 more years, though.
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Old Feb 13, 2012 | 11:13 AM
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With enough surgery, I'm sure she'll look the same for the next 40 years or so. There should be enough Canuck visitors in LV annually to keep her in high demand. Now if only Cameron needed a song for "Titanic 2: Judgement Day", she'd really be in business.
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Originally Posted by tommy
With enough surgery, I'm sure she'll look the same for the next 40 years or so. There should be enough Canuck visitors in LV annually to keep her in high demand. Now if only Cameron needed a song for "Titanic 2: Judgement Day", she'd really be in business.
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So did a transmission flush today that was interesting.
So My car had a pan change at 100K and then again at 139K so this is the first full flush at 171K
So I only used 12 3/4 Quarts of fluid because the fluid looks fine by that point and I wanted some extra to top off just in case my gallon milk container measuring was off.
It took about 5 hours once we started on it till the time we were done but we took about an hour break from really working on it when I cleaned the pan out and did some research on how much a new pan is. Sadly the drain plug was on so tight that we could not get the thing to move so I had to crack the back of the pan loose and try to catch all the fluid as it slowly leaked out. Another interesting thing was that my car does not have the magnet in the bottom of the pan. I actually knew it might not because of the build date but hoped it would. Since all I saw was aluminum stuff I decided that even though I have a magnet coming to the dealer tomorrow that I would save it for next oil change. so I could get my car back on the road... hopefully I don't regret it.
Almost forgot I do have a sample that I will be sending off to Blackstone to see how bad the fluid really was so that will be interesting will post once I have results.











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I'm no expert but that looks good to me given the high mileage.
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So I got the results back on the fluid. They did think it was only a partial flush I actually did a full one I guess I didn't write clearly enough. So what do you guys think?

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Trey - The results are good. Nothing to worry about apart from insolubles which are not a train smash. Insolubles can be oxidation by-products or some minor clutch material.

How did you take the sample? Where from & how? There was black muck on your pan. If you sampled from the drain plug that would explain everything.

Taking truly representative samples is an art learned over time. i.e. trying to sample what the unit is seeing in circulation.

So this oil had done 32K miles from a full flush & filter?

I'm pleased they did a TAN as I said in my PM. It shows that oxidation is not out of control. There is some however.
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