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SevilleDorado last won the day on May 10 2015

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About SevilleDorado

  • Birthday 08/11/1958

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  • Car Model and Year
    1995 Seville STS / 1995 ElDorado ETC
  • Engine
    NORTHSTAR 4.6L V8 VVT (LH2)

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    harwoodco@msn.com

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    Male
  • Location
    Valatie, N.Y.
  • Interests
    Restore, ride and enjoy Vintage motorcycles for a private collector.Indians, Brough Superiors,Guzzi's,and such.Country life,the outdoors, and raceing,drags and road course.Limerock and Watkins Glen close enough by.

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  1. Thanks for the reply Cody. Yes it is the end of the links that are connected to the sway bar itself. The ends at the struts were easy , though the new struts did not have that stock spacer welded to them where the link attatches. I dremeled it off and tacked it on the new strut.The top end of the strut where you use the torx bit were so rusted and worn on the old ones, I had to cut open the shock part and clamp on it with a large vise grip and use heat on the nut. Believe me , I had sprayed it for days with PB.Needless to say the old links are still on , and need to change them out now that better weather is here in NY. Your comment on the wear of the Continental extreme contacts was just as I had summised , as they wore perfectly on the rear. I too am a spirited driver , and have been quite impressed with the handling of the Eldo. I live near LimeRock , a road course track in Conn. , and have often wanted to just take it there and run it through the course a couple laps.When I had my 68 AMX I got the oppertunity to do a few laps around Watkins Glen on a Mark Donahue anniversary weeked event - it was awesome ! Thanks again and good luck and great enthusiasm with your build.
  2. First what a cool thread I had been following it previously , and just noticed you started on it again. On a comment to those continetal tires, I had a set on my 95 Eldo and it ate them up in no time. I had and have not had the same problem with my Coopers , wich I ran before and after the Continentals. I am not that well versed , or have the knowledge you have aquired on your build, but I chalked it up to the tires as an issue themselves. I do drive aggresivly in cornering etc. . The question I have is I replaced my stock Eldo front struts with the Monroe replacements. I could not seem to get the ends of the strut rods loose out of the sway bars when wanting to replace them.... any tricks ? It looks like the same set up as the top mount on the front shocks - allen hex wrench insert.... ? Thanks - great wrok - love this thread ! I was refering to the Continental extreme contacts - they worked supreme on a 95 Benz wagon, but I just felt they were not desingned for a front wheel drive app. maybe ?? thought yours are on different rims and a different size - mine were a stock size match and on stock rims and on an ETC Eldo.
  3. Those are really nice , care to share where you got them from if it is allowed in a post ? I would think of taking my originals out wich are in perfect shape and putting those in to save the thick originals...plus mine are an odd color to me - 95 Eldo ETC white pearl with some off brown/purple/eggplant/gray interior ? lol I am sure there is a modern faux name for the color....
  4. Thanks ,looks like a trip to Radio Shack is in store for the afternoon. I did just clip them right at the old strut , I was going to dip the connection in some of that goop that you can dip your wrench handles in after making them up. I have several cans and colors of it......I am thinking it will work and be thicker ?
  5. So - to tag onto this thread - is the 4.7 ohm 1/2 watt resister what I should solder in on my 95 ElDorado ETC ? I just replaced the front struts with the Monroes , and split and taped off the wires for now........ Does it also effect the rear air shocks ? I am replaceing those soon, I just got a set of the Arnott ones for the rear. It seems once I replaced the fronts, the rears do not want to work right. I was replaceing them anyways as I wanted to do all 4 corners of the suspension...... Thanks
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