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Keeping Busy

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This is what has been taking up my time for the past few weeks. It's a very clean and maintained 2012 Impala I found for a nice price. Biggest thing it needed was tires and those were done last Saturday. So far we are very happy with it. It has a 300 hp V6 that will push you back into the seat, XM radio and a number of other dodads to distract you while driving. Wanting to add a remote start but that will have to wait a while.
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Re: Keeping Busy

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Nice! Looks very clean!
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Excellent. i got all the parts in and will be doing the driver side exhaust Manifold bolts on my 1500 Ram today if the rain holds off. Not a fun job but I can not stand the ticking exhaust leak anymore.
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Whiskerfish wrote:Excellent. i got all the parts in and will be doing the driver side exhaust Manifold bolts on my 1500 Ram today if the rain holds off. Not a fun job but I can not stand the ticking exhaust leak anymore.
ugh. good luck. broken manifold bolts aren't fun..
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WF, looks like you had a difficult day. Hope you can figure out a way to get the second one out. This car is extremely clean inside and out. I always do a deep clean when I purchase a car but this one didn't need much. Polished up some pieces of pipe and installed them as tips today. Looks good for now, hope the don't rust too quickly. Definitely looks better than the stock rusty pipes.
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1975 Goldwing 'Max'
1984 Goldwing New Bagger Project
1976 Goldwing 'Grocery Getter' Sold
1985 Goldwing Interstate 'NCC-1985' sold
1981 Silverwing Sold
1982 Goldeing Project Sold
1981 Goldwing Parted Out
1983 Goldwing Project Sold
1973 CB500F Long Gone
1966 CL77 First Street Bike
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Re: Keeping Busy

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Very Nice!
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1975 Naked Noisy and Nasty in town bike

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