[DeTomaso] Thank you SOBill.

[Brent Stewart]

Ah, much better!!  Now go enjoy that drive!!

brent




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From: Dave Londry <davel at emspace.com>
To: Brent Stewart <bjbstewart at yahoo.com>
Cc: DeTomaso Forum <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 10:03:20 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Thank you SOBill.

 Very, very good point Brent. 
My German-born business-partner and webmaster was a bigtime Schumacher
fan.
I'd better whack him a few times with the big blue Isis and get that
changed.
I've attached two of our datasheets, which are more Pantera respectful.
(sorry forum - they won't get through)
dave

Brent Stewart wrote: 
> 
>Great to hear!  my only concern would be "why is there a Ferrari
>on your website rather than a Pantera?"
>
>http://www.emspace.com/aboutus.html 
>
>
>
>
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From: >Dave Londry <davel at emspace.com>
>To: DeTomaso Forum
><detomaso at realbig.com>
>Sent: Sunday,
>September 27, 2009 9:24:25 PM
>Subject: [DeTomaso]
>Thank you SOBill.
>
>>After a complete overdose of the 'customer-from-hell',
>>I decided to take 6143 on a 3 day  tour from home (outside Vancouver
>BC),
>>over the coastal mountains to the Okanagan Valley and back.
>>This was my first real Pantera drive and I wanted to start out Monday 
>>Morning.
>>Situation normal, by 3PM I had everything caught up so I could leave.
>>Went to back out of the garage and the clutch pedal was a bit funny.
>>Of course I didn't want to believe it and got to the street with brake 
>>fluid peeing on the ground.
>>Got it back onto the lift quick, while there was still fluid in the 
>>master, shut it down and had a 5 minute sulk.
>>It was on my schedule to change slaves next winter #@$^#$%$*%^.
>>Aha - let's look in Bill's Pantera Reference spreadsheet.
>>Hmmm, there are some references but nothing that I could get here.
>>Then it finds NAPA CS Kit 255 -- AHA!.
>
>>I call the nearest NAPA and they just want to know what car it's from -
> 
>>couldn't find their noses if their fingers weren't already there.
>>Coming up 4PM, call the next nearest and the lady says "sure, there's 
>>one in the warehouse. I can have it here by 4:30 hunney"
>>You betcha hunney.
>>I'm there by 4:30 and so is the part. I can't recognize it and it has a
> 
>>weird bellows and crosses to an S10 Chevy.
>>Well my faith is wandering a bit, but it's $28 and there's no other
>game 
>>in town.
>>Back home, pull the slave - that's easy.
>>Pull off the bellows and yaaack. It's full of crud and worse, has a 
>>layer of hard crud on the low side of the bore.
>>I'm too chicken to try to blow the piston out, so 1 hour of scotchbrite
> 
>>wrapped around a finger and it pops.
>>(no fingerprint left on that finger, oh well - just don't get arrested)
>>Hey, that piston looked just like the one in the kit, except not blue.
>>10 minutes more with scotchbrite chucked up on a dowel and the bore was
> 
>>shiny.
>>Back together PDQ and bled, re-adjusted the travel.
>>Yahoo - but it's 9PM and no point starting a mountain drive in the dark.
>
>>I'll post a bit about the trip tomorrow.
>>But thanks to SOBill and Pantera_Reference.xls, that cat came from 
>>busted to back online in about 5 hours.
>>dave
>
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>davel at emspace.com
>
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