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Old 12-06-2006, 06:51 PM   #76
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

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"Does anyone KNOW which Oil Filter is best?" by yours truly...

I don't know what else to say..... your question befuddles me!

You just posted in it....see confused look on DoctorBill's face....

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Disregard the question, I found your thread after I asked where it was.
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Old 12-06-2006, 06:52 PM   #77
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BlazerLT, The oil filter link you are asking for is at: http://theoildrop.server101.com/foru...t=0&Board=UBB6
Lots of good info there, hours of poking around fun.
Ah yes, I am a 3 year member there.
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Old 12-07-2006, 08:46 AM   #78
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

Mr.Bill,

BOO!!!

Awesome! But about time.

I rolled my Metro after getting a flat rear tire recently, and I am out Metro desire. Too bad it was a top running specimen after much labor only to be cut short after grinding on its side and then flipping a reported 4-5 times.

I got out and phoned for a ride home. Just the other day I pulled 2 pieces of glass out of my arm. Would I buy again? Sure. Will I? No.

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Old 12-07-2006, 09:56 AM   #79
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

Hey, man! So nice to have you back here with us! Long time, no see....

What have you been up to? I missed your words here on this forum.....

Have you been following The Oddessy of the Phoenix - the very same Metro
you had commented on so long ago?

I 'fixed' it. Runs like a top now.

I look forward to your postings.

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Old 12-11-2006, 07:41 PM   #80
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

I picked up my '94 Metro 3 cyl Tachometer Instrument Cluster ($55) today!

Here is what it looks like. Back Side...


The number on the back side is 399 E DENSO

Top View


Front of Unit.


On the bottom is the following:

R2 30010412
TN157320-7823

There is a drop of sealer paint on the Top Bezel tabs, so looks like it has
never been opened up.

It has 111,662 miles on it (Mine has ~158,000) and this one has
a trip meter - Hot Diggity Damn!

It is in Miles, not Kilometers!........'merican!

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Old 12-11-2006, 09:19 PM   #81
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

Make sure you swap your Odometer over to the new one.
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Old 12-11-2006, 10:28 PM   #82
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

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Make sure you swap your Odometer over to the new one.

Unfortunately that is not possible as the odometers and speedometers are of a completely different design. Fortunately, for most of us, our cars are old enough to be exempt in most states from having to report the mileage when selling the vehicle.

It is a good Idea to verify what your local laws are before making a swap like this. Some states just require a tag on the car with the odometer readings when it was swapped out. Others require a notation on the title that the odometer reading is not accurate.

worst of all, it is bad karma to lie about how many miles are on your body.
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Old 12-11-2006, 11:41 PM   #83
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

in WA you only need to worry about the car mileage if its less than 10 years old. don;t try to swap the odometer over just put it in the way it is and record old and new mileage so you know when next oil change is due. some of the plastic is glued together and you would have to cut it and reglue it to swap odometer. best to just leave it alone
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Old 12-12-2006, 12:44 AM   #84
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

This has become rather humerous......

All the while I wrote about trying to find a Tach Inst Cluster, not one single
word about there being any legal problems with this.

Now that I have one, suddenly there is concern about whether or not I
have the right to put it in or not.

Screw the legal issues.

Who would want to buy this old bird anyway..... Besides, writing the fact that
I changed out the Speedometer Cluster or not down on the Title is no big deal!

Once I write that the Cluster was changed and the odometer reading is now
different clues the buyer into the fact that the miles don't jive.

So, at that point, the buyer is forewarned.....

Christ, the gypsies here in Spokane are infamous for doing that!

Still, it is funny how you folks react to things......

Well, I am sicker than hell. Seem to have the Flu. Hope not the Bird Flu.
My lungs sound like some old Diesel Engine rumbling away.

Need to suck down some Nyquill and sleep.

I think I had best leave this Instrument Cluster thing alone for a week or so
until I don't die from screwing around outside in this cold rain.

DoctorBill

PS - Were I to die, I wonder if they'd let my wife put me in the driver's seat
of The Phoenix, roll it down a back-hoe'd ditch, and let me be buried
in the car?
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

Doc,

I just noticed one of the support posts is broken on the back of the cluster. It shouldn't be a big deal, but you might want to break one off of your old cluster and glue it to your new one.
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Old 12-12-2006, 09:55 PM   #86
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

I looked at that support post on the Cluster - yes - never noticed it....

I cannot "break off" one of them exactly like the other one, so I thought maybe
I could "Gorilla Glue" or Silicone Glue a metal bolt of the same dimensions and put
a rubber grommet on it.



I got another tank of Chevron with Techroline and the car is running the following mpg's.
1- 44.4 mpg 2 - 40.4 mpg 3 - 42.6 mpg
Tank #1 was CENEX the crap gas!
Damn! Maybe it isn't crap gas.....maybe The Phoenix likes 10% Ethanol!

The temp around here has varied quite a lot from 10 to 45 degrees!

Am on Antibiotics right now with a Whooping Cough type cold or flu...they get
nastier as one gets older. At least it seems so.

DoctorBill

PS - How much Oil would I lose if I changed my FRAM oil filter for a Wal-Mart
Supreme-Tech filter mid-stream? i.e. just taking the filter off w/o draining
the oil?
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Old 12-13-2006, 04:07 AM   #87
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

I'd guess 1/3-3/4 quart depending on angle of the car, with the capacity of the filter and whatever little bit drains from the block. go for it and top er off. Get well quick buddy!

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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

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I got another tank of Chevron with Techroline and the car is running the following mpg's.
1- 44.4 mpg 2 - 40.4 mpg 3 - 42.6 mpg
Tank #1 was CENEX the crap gas!
Damn! Maybe it isn't crap gas.....maybe The Phoenix likes 10% Ethanol!

The temp around here has varied quite a lot from 10 to 45 degrees!
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DOC;

I am in the Boise area (similar weather although perhaps not quite as cold) and your mileage pretty much jibes with what I have been getting. I see a 4-5 mpg drop/swing in the winter depending on the temperature, whether the wind is blowing and apparently the phase of the moon. Like you much of my mileage is highway miles coming and going to work so one would expect things to be pretty uniform but that hasn't been the case. I haven't investigated whether or not the kind of fuel I am using makes a measurable/repeatable difference.
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

just snap the same part off cluster your taking out and glue it in place or do the bolt thing and grab grommet off the other one
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Old 12-15-2006, 03:25 PM   #90
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Re: The Flight of the PHOENIX !

While sitting around coughing up several gallons of phlegm with this God awful
cold/flu thing, I worked on the Instrument Cluster Peg.

I made a plaster mold and used Blue RTV Silicone to mold a new "Grommet".



The Elmer's Ultimate Glue (Polyurethane) is hardening as I took the photo.

It ought to hold. The only purpose of the Peg & Grommet is to center the Inst.
Cluster - the bolts on the top and bottom hold it in place....

I don't know when I will get to install this Instrument Cluster. We just had 60
mph winds whiz thu here last night - how fast does a storm on the West Coast
have to be to be classified a Typhoon?

How fast does the wind have to be to pick this little bugger up and flip it off
of the highway!? I wonder sometimes....

The weather is just too crappie to go outside right now.

I wanted to change my Transmish Oil also, but that's on hold too!

Thank God for Antibiotics (Ortho's Levaquin 750 mg 5 pack) or I'd have been
dead long ago! I guess most of us would be, too.....

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