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Parts rant!

Andrew Mace

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Geez, wouldn't you think that someone would make parts that actually LAST? Yesterday, while on a longish drive to help my son buy a replacement car, the Herald started acting up. Well, not too badly, just that the oil pressure warning light seemed to be flickering on at ever-higher engine revs. Fortunately, I do also have an oil pressure gauge installed, and looking at that told me that I really had nothing to worry about!

Anyway, I was home this morning, due to an April Fool's snowstorm, which thankfully turned out to be very minor. But I took the opportunity to run down into the barn and "borrow" another oil pressure light sender from a spare engine. I popped it on to my Herald, and all's well again -- NO "green light" so to speak (except when it's supposed to be on, that is!)

But really...only 49 years for a Smiths warning light sender? Admittedly, that's longer service than the one I had to replace years ago on my GT6+; that sender was only about eight years old! We'll see how long the one I just installed -- probably from about 1963 -- will last! :devilgrin:
 

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Andy - If you kept your receipt they will replace it I'm sure.
 

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Postal mail?
Is that similar to regular mail?
 

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Yes Andy I was kidding... It is April Fools Day!
 

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Elliot never kids. He's April Fooling about that too.
 

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I think you're onto something don :yesnod:
 
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I've got "new" parts I put on the Jag two years ago that are shot.
Poop Happens.
 
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booley said:
I'm sure if Kaye's was still open, Roly would give you a free replacement(ha-ha,aprilfools)
I had the same thought...and while I was there, I'd see if I could get a good deal on the TR2 grille that was hanging on the wall. But then I remembered: Roly is still around, but Kaye's Auto Exchange has been gone a good 30 years....

(Sorry that the above means absolutely NOTHING to any of you who didn't live in the Albany NY area back in the "glory days" of imports! Roly was one of the best parts department managers, like, EVER, in one of the otherwise worst, like, EVER, import dealerships!)
 
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