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Delta 88
Leaks about a half quart every 3000 miles. Tranny is getting weaker, but still works fine. Harmonic balancer went bad. Transmission line fitting into cooler started to leak.
General comments?
This car is pretty amazing. It has been through absolute hell and back. Mainly I drove this on a 1000 mile round trip drive every other weekend. I usually averaged about 27 on the highway at 78 mph, and lower 20's in the city. This car rides wonderful, the front struts must be relatively new. The rear air suspension works perfect. This car has started at temps as low as -30 below F without a problem. My father bought the car with approximately 190k. He put 15k on it then gave it to me. I proceeded to put another 21k. It now has 238k on it and still runs like a top after some severe abuse. I live in northern minnesota so the river freezes up hard, we had about 4 ft of ice so we started to drive on the river everynight. Everynight we would get a little crazier, eventually we would have three cars racing up and down a 10 mile stretch of winding wide river. I didn't care about this car at all after I knew I would be buying a different car in a while. I would put it in 2nd gear and keep it floored pretty much the entire time, I hit 80 mph once on the river, but usually ran about 60 actual speed and about 70 wheel speed. This car is unbelieveable in snow, it accelarates and handles perfectly. I raced against newer 4 wheel drive vehicles and beat them. The suspension also took a severe beating on the river, there was a lot of foot high moguls taken at 60 mph sideways with 4 people in the car. I think the only damage I did to the vehicle through this severe beating was a slightly toed out rear axle. Drive didn't work for a while, it would just slip, but now it works again, it slips sometimes from 1st to 2nd gear when floored. I've taken 1st gear to 45mph and 2nd to 85, but its been slipping for 15k and still works fine. To put it plainly I tried to blow up or break this car, but I couldnt. I floored this vehicle about 10-20 times a day, have pulled a trailer 2000 miles, and raced on the river, and this car still has power to burn rubber from a dead stop.
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