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[96mcls]

this was posted over on mymonte i just wanted to see what you guys thought about it.

http://www.horsebarn.com/chevy.html

[RednBlack]

I've blown a lot of engines in my time. I have yet to have one "Lock The Wheels". Even a standard tranny can be safely coasted to the side.

The whole story sounds like someone forgot to change oil, and wants to blame it on GM. So, the author is a moron.

IMHO..

[firechiken]

Yep, sounds like he blew up his motor after 100,000 miles and is looking to hang anyone but the guy who didn't properly maintain it, himself. Has anyone here, or over on any of the other boards, ever hear of this?

[tractorman]

I can't say that I've ever heard of this before. I don't care what happens to the engine- it WON'T make the front wheels lock up. P/s and p/b will be gone... sure... but the transmission pump will no longer be turning, so there's no way in hell it'd lock the front wheels. He's just pissed and being melodramatic.

Now I DID notice something interesting when I had my lumina apart a while back- this guy isn't ENTIRELY full of shit. When I torqued down the rocker arms, I noticed that there was a bit of movement between the alignment slots in the head and the rocker pedestels- if you just torque them down without paying attention, the rocker arm can be slightly misaligned with the valve stem. I don't know that it was bad enough to actually cause a problem, but I held mine straight and was careful when I torqued them down. If his setup was slightly looser than mine, and it wasn't carefully assembled, that could account for the misalignment. That still doesn't explain how the valve stem wore all the way through... seems fishy to me. I think it's a combination of bad luck and bad maintanence.

[96mcls]

yeah i laughed cause i thought to my self; "well in the event the front wheels did lock up then what is the point of brakes or steering?"

lol

but i just don't see how the front wheels would be locking up from this, i would blame the trans for that

and then they say they would never buy another chevy, well look at other cars mad in 95 quite a few engines are lucky to even make it to see 100K miles. and to talk about American quality, took at the jap crap we had in 1995, is that high quality? i think not!