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   Message 87 of 2,177   
   TOM WALKER to MARK HOFMANN   
   Re: Monte Carlos   
   25 Feb 11 07:20:00   
   
   MH>After I went with my daughter and she bought her first car, it ended up havi   
   MH>many problems that I ended up fixing.  Clogged EGR inlet which was causing i   
   MH>to throw a check engine code and would have failed emissions.  That took awh   
   MH>to find, which ended up being on the intake.  Also a water pump replacement   
   MH>the middle of winter (at least we have a garage), and now it needs new CV   
   MH>axles.  That will happen on high mileage cars, though.  It has 172k on it, b   
   MH>runs perfect.   
      
   MH>I have never replaced CV axles myself, but I do have access to the AllData   
   MH>program, YouTube videos, etc.  Hopefully that will go smooth.   
      
   I only had to do it twice in my repair days and that was on the VW   
   Dasher/Audi Fox series of cars. They were farily easy. The non inlined   
   engined cars can be troublesone because of access limitations.   
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