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So now you could position the rear axle on the rear lift and using the special tool, along with two heavy duty frame stands, you could LOWER the front suspension and have a have a 4X4 long timber (attached to the KM special tool) push the front of the engine up after you removed the bolts to the front motor mounts and installed longer bolts in the trans crossmember so that it could "PIVOT" upward without breaking the rear trans mount. Hardest part sometimes was breaking the oil pan seal at the block gaskets and the Timing Cover. You also had to remove the distributor cap and wires, broke one of those the first time I tried to do the job by myself. So I know a thing or three about working on Pontiacs in spite of being an Engineer. Tom V.
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Tom your always a good number ladder rungs above us all because your a Engineer!
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With the old 70K warranty, we saw tons of 70 and older vehicles with the nylon teeth shelled off. The engine repair guys took home good paychecks until the steel gears arrived on our shelves. The hi-perf cars rarely made it to 70k and a few earlier vehicles had two or more trips to the engine techs for t gear sets and a pan clean out. By 72, the folks with the older cars quit coming to the dealer, out of warranty or second (third?) owner. |
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Playing catch up on this. Our PMD dealer rep was driving a Company RA4 T/A in late 70. When he got out of it, we sold it to the first retail customer. Young kid whose mama picked up the tab for anything the boy wanted. Came in a couple of months later, knocking like a drowning man on the inside of a submarine hatch. Warranty rebuild and the service manager who had a bit of NASCAR and NHRA background insisted on steel gears. So, yes, the did come with the molded plastic cam gear, at least that one.
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