Todd Smith wrote:
"There are plenty of people on the Olds Diesel list with 100K+ and some 200K+ vehicles. Certainly nothing like this list where every second vehicle rolled off the Ark but it is still impressive for vehicles everyone just knows are "junk" " I used to be a Service Manager at an Oldsmobile and Honda dealership. Nearly all of the technicians had been there since before 1979 (some before 1969), and all of them, with one exception, described the old gm diesels as junk. However, none of them knew anything about them. Someone on here mentioned that GM was not that good at offering much training on diesels. I totally agree. The one technician that liked these old GM diesels had actually gone to a special GM diesel tech school to work on these. He liked them so much he had two 98 Regency diesels. One was an 82 and the other was an 83. He loved them both. He did admit that the intake were lousy. He just got used to replacing them. I think he also kept an extra injection pump handy. Of course, in the late 80's you could buy one of these cars for a song. I think he bought a few of them and parted them out keeping things like the IP on hand. He was a little bit strange, though. He poured a quart of tranny fluid in his tank every time he filled up, and whenever he changed the fuel filters he filled them up with tranny fluid. Donald H. Snook McDonald, Tinker, Skaer, Quinn & Herrington, P.A. 300 West Douglas P.O. Box 207 Wichita, Kansas 67201 0207 Tel. (316) 263-5851 This confidential message may be subject to the attorney-client privilege or protected by the attorney work-product doctrine. If you have recieved this message in error, please delete it and notify me.
