13 Apr 12 16:25, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
      
      
    RW>> I was a product of the 50s, when 'hot rod' fever got into my blood   
    RW>> and the place to be at the time was in California. That was true   
    RW>> into the 70s before California began to regulate engine emissions,   
    RW>> retro-fitting old cars with emission 'improvement' BS! There was a   
    RW>> time when, if you knew someone' - you could remove emission   
    RW>> equipment and still pass the 'visual' test. If need be, a clean   
    RW>> exhaust car could pass the emission test in place of yours...all of   
    RW>> that was legislated out of existence and is impossible these days.   
    RW>> The only way out of testing these days, unless the DMV caught onto   
    RW>> it, is to register your vehicles in a non-emission testing area. I   
    RW>> did that for the last 5 years of my residency in CA.   
      
    MH> Not sure what happened to that state.  Too many Hollywood limo   
    MH> liberals and hippies I guess.   
      
   Key word there; liberals. After Reagan's term as governor, there was one   
   more conservative govenor after him and then the liberals took over as the   
   'homos' began to excercise their political agenda. With SF's 'Willy'   
   Brown, Gerry Brown, Grey Davis, etc...Swarzeneggar called them 'girly'   
   boyz...   
      
    RW>> Plug wires.   
      
    MH> Yup.   
      
    RW>> When I was 16, I owned a 1940 Ford and worked @ a local dairy as a   
    RW>> soda jerk. Forget why, but after work one night in the dark, I   
    RW>> opened the hood of that car to see sparks flying from the wires to   
    RW>> the head (ground). In retrospect, I've often wondered how that   
    RW>> engine even ran with those wires.   
      
    MH> Could be a nice display for the 4th of July.   
      
   Heh...it didn't help much that Ford ran those wires through a metal pipe   
   on their way to each spark plug.   
      
    RW>>  RW>> Are the tanks aluminum or plastic?   
    RW>>   
    RW>>  MH> From what I can tell, the entire thing is aluminum.  The   
    RW>> overflow   
    RW>>  MH> tank is separate and is plastic.  The pipes into the radiator   
    RW>> look to   
    RW>>  MH> be plastic.   
    RW>>   
    RW>> ATF lines = pipes? Or the hose from the overflow tank?   
      
    MH> The upper hose that goes to the top of the radiator is clamped onto   
    MH> the plastic opening.  I'll have to inspect the other connections   
    MH> closer.  The radiator is aluminum, but at the very least the opening   
    MH> to the tank is plastic.  I don't recall what the old one was made of   
    MH> at that location.   
      
   Sounds like a 'direct' replacement of what you had before it died.   
      
    RW>> That's good. Hopefully the internal ATF cooler line is aluminum too.   
      
    MH> Not knowing what the old one was made out of - or how it failed, I'm   
    MH> not sure if this new radiator is better or not.   
      
    MH> I'll try and lookup the 2001 Durango factory radiator specs.   
      
    RW>> LOL! After the first day of that, they'd tell you to take a bus or   
    RW>> commuter train...   
      
    MH> I'll make sure I buy a service item each time.  Whatever is the   
    MH> cheapest item on the service price list.  Maybe have them check the   
    MH> tire pressure each day after my tows.  :)   
      
   8^)   
      
      
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