New Mechanic Seems" to know his stuff.
About four years ago our 454 Chevy was beginning to loose power, miss and in general run badly. It failed smog and I took it to a place that was highly recommended for a complete tune up after the ca...
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I'm going to wait until I get my rig back and then I'll comment on Gary's work. Right now I have been to a few ASE Certified mechanics and in my opinion, if it doesn't have a computer attached, most mechanics don't know how to work on them. The recommendations I have followed were from friends who had excellent results from shops or "really good" shops that don't do tune ups. Things are higher here in California and while it irks me, I can't and don't particularly want to leave. My grandkids and their Mom(youngest DD) and eldest DD live nearby. My eldest has been fighting stage 4 cancer for seven years and is at least even with the crap. The youngest DD and mother of our DGKs is a single Mom now and while we don't have to help financially, we do help with caring for our teenage and absolutely fantastically beautiful grandkids. I have been retired for 19 years, my wife for 16 years, I will no longer travel by air so we will never get to visit Africa. We have been to not only the other 6 continents but all fifty states so I have done pretty much all I want to do but live to see my DGKs graduate from college and married. I have had at least four cancers, three BCCs removed and had radiation for prostate cancer, I'm pretty happy to be able to pay our outrageous prices here and go out and travel.
So please give me a little leeway in this problem. I would like to find a new mechanic with the skills my Dad taught me, but, there aren't many people left who know about this naturally aspirated engine. By the way, I have advanced stenosis and arthritis in my back and have to have lumbar epidurals in order to walk, so doing my own work is out of the question. I have been assuming that I have a quadrajet carb, if it isn't it is the std carb that was on the 1989 era Chevy/GMC 454 engines, I'm sorry correct me and until the work was done at ----'s Automotive in Simi Valley it ran good and my mileage pulling a towed was above 8.0mpg. Not bad traveling over and back and forth across the mountains in the western USA.
I'll up date as soon as I get the Bounder back and get it to Canyonlands and back.
PS: If you know someone who can absolutely fix my rig and is local and you will back them up with your wallet, let me know, I only posted this because I'm hurting a lot and wanted to vent.
So please give me a little leeway in this problem. I would like to find a new mechanic with the skills my Dad taught me, but, there aren't many people left who know about this naturally aspirated engine. By the way, I have advanced stenosis and arthritis in my back and have to have lumbar epidurals in order to walk, so doing my own work is out of the question. I have been assuming that I have a quadrajet carb, if it isn't it is the std carb that was on the 1989 era Chevy/GMC 454 engines, I'm sorry correct me and until the work was done at ----'s Automotive in Simi Valley it ran good and my mileage pulling a towed was above 8.0mpg. Not bad traveling over and back and forth across the mountains in the western USA.
I'll up date as soon as I get the Bounder back and get it to Canyonlands and back.
PS: If you know someone who can absolutely fix my rig and is local and you will back them up with your wallet, let me know, I only posted this because I'm hurting a lot and wanted to vent.
