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larryduane100
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:06 pm Post subject: 1987 Bonneville |
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I have a 1987 Bonneville. They come with the 3.8 v-6. I have added a conversion kit that allows me to run on E-85 and I love it!
My question is on a part I need that I can't even find a listing for anywhere. My transmission shift indicator in the dash broke. It appears to be a rubber band type device that wore out from age. It stays wadded up in the little window above the steering wheel as a constant nag that I must be very careful where I position my shift lever! Why Pontiac could not stay with a tried and true solid object is beyond me. Is there anyone out there with an answer?
thanks, guys
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Larry Site Admin
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:17 pm Post subject: Bonneville Question |
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Running on E85, huh? That's wild. I guess the old expression "Corney as Kansas in August" is music to your ears.
I would bet that just getting to the rubber band type item inside the dash indicator will take an act of congress. I know this sounds too obvious, but have you been able to figure out the size of the band and checked if something else might work?
A Google search of rubber bands might show many other more industrial applications. I know in my old print shop business we had film processing equipment that had belts that we sourced from lots of places other than the over-priced original manufacturers.
You can ask around to some of our Featured Commercial Suppliers (AFFILIATES then Mmeber Discounts).
Let us know what you find. As these "newer" Pontiacs get older, situations like this will certainly increase. _________________ PontiacRegistry.com... building the single largest source of Pontiac information, services, and entertainment in the world! |
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larryduane100
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 4:12 pm Post subject: E-85 |
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Thanks for the post! Actually, it distresses me that corn is used to make alcohol. We should be using sugar beets for a ten fold increase per acre. Corn for cows is silly too as cows can't digest it well. But they do great on the residue from corn-to-alcohol conversion. See "Alcohol can be a Gas" for the history of how Rockefeller used prohibition to change the auto industry over to oil's toxic waste-gasoline! Internal combustion engines all used to use alcohol!
I will check further on your suggestions for my shift indicator problem. Thanks again,
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Posted: Sun Dec 05, 2010 8:41 pm Post subject: E-85 Fuels |
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You're right. I forgot about the sugar beets. They pack a whallop for making fuels.
Doesn't it frost your taters when you hear people crying the blues that if we grow crops for fuel... "where will people get their food?"
That mentality is on par with anyone who used to worry about over population but never looked out their car windows and saw miles and miles of open space. I remember a school teacher back in the '50-'60s who projected that we would be building houses inside the grassy areas of interstate entrance ramps. GEEZE!
If these thoughts represent the "brain bank" that is running our country... well, no wonder we're in such trouble. _________________ PontiacRegistry.com... building the single largest source of Pontiac information, services, and entertainment in the world! |
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