Roger Nelson wrote to Roy Witt:

 RN>> I think I may have mentioned that the MB I own had 130K on it a
 RN>> month or so ago.  I looked at the odometer again to be sure and it
 RN>> was 190k. so I must have been guessing.

 RW>> So, what you're saying is that it is barely broken in...

 RN> Runs like a clock.  I did have to put two cans of freon in it last
 RN> week.  I guess that Red Angel doesn't last forever.  (-:

I thought it wouldn't. The only permanent fix is to replace old seals with
new seals. I'm waiting on a call from Joel who will be taking the Camaro,
finding a leak and repairing it. The stop-leak I used in the AC system
didn't last a season, so in the shop it goes. If they would have put the
compressor on top, like my truck, I'd attempt to fix it, but getting to
the point where I can't get on a creeper anymore.

 RW>> When I was looking for a suburban, most of what I was looking at
 RW>> had that kind of mileage and more. In the meantime, my neighbor
 RW>> Les, who lived across the steet suffered a fatal heart attack and
 RW>> his widow put all of his collectible vehicles up for sale. I asked
 RW>> for first bid on it when she and his brother began to clean out
 RW>> the house. When it came to it, they were asking $2500 and I
 RW>> offered $2200. Sharon, his widow was even more generous with the
 RW>> vehicle prices and only took $2k for it, handing me $200 in cash
 RW>> with the title.

 RN> That was VERY nice of her.

She is very nice. When I was in her kitchen to pick up the papers, she
used my shoulder to cry on when we were talking about Les. I'll never
figure out how the two of them got together, because Les didn't have that
great of a personality.

 RW>> Les took very good care of his vehicles (he had 6) and the suburban
 RW>> was freshly painted less than two years before his demise, so I
 RW>> can't tell if the 98,000 odometer reading is just 98k or 198k...sad
 RW>> to say that I told Les that he should have done better body work,
 RW>> as it waves at you when it drives by. Other than that, it runs and
 RW>> drives like new.

 RN> Does it have leaf or coil springs in the rear?

Suburbans have leaf springs, Tahoes have coils...Suburbans are about 18"
longer than a Tahoe and the towing load capacity is higher because of the
difference in springs.


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