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Jim Groepler custom working.
Hope y'all had a wonderful and safe Freedom Day weekend ! Been really busy dealing with parts cleaning/inspection/painting. Backordered items, bad parts, wrong parts, and trying to keep up with the p... View More
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Jim Groepler custom working.
People keep asking about what the perfect car/truck is. My answer's always simple. The most maintained. Year doesn't matter, maintenance records do. Give me a 1968 Hupmobile with all maintenance recor... View More
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Jim Groepler custom working.
The 1971 LTD convertible project : After a lot of work, hopefully, is finally finished. With the exception of flushing the milky oil, and changing the oil, along with resetting the timing, and refilli... View More
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Lilesville NC.
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Jim, Thanks for the invite to check out your page. This guy living in Southern California, about 5 miles south of Disneyland, wishes you, your business, and all of yours well. I might say however, i... View More
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Anything I can do. PM me. I can give you my phone number.
April 21, 2022
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Jim Groepler custom working.
The LTD is going back together nicely. While installing the passenger side head gasket, I found the last place had installed the old one backwards ! Sealed off the main cooling passageway largely le... View More
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Jim Groepler custom working.
The Cadillac : I was able to tear down the front end, finding the original timing chain set, which was very worn. Engines are an exact science, close enough just doesn't count.... The LTD : I receive... View More
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The 1959 Galaxie/Fairlane : As the song goes "It's been a long road to get from there to here. It's been a long time, but the time is finally here". The drivers side rocker panel has been replaced an... View More
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Been a busy couple of weeks. The 79 F100. After freeing the engine, I gave it a compression check, it uniformly failed badly, compression ranged from 60-105 with oil in each cylinder. With those read... View More
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Jim Groepler custom working.
I've GOT to confess my "sins" once in awhile. Don't want the world to think bad of me, but gotta be real, too, and get people to understand that ain't nothing for free. Sometimes, hard lessons are req... View More
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Jim Groepler custom working.
This week has been a real challenge...  I had three things left to do on the 71 LTD. Thermostat, transmission oil pan gasket, and vacuum modulator...  Until....... I found the radiator down, and the o... View More
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Jim Groepler custom working.
Yesterday I was able to run the 1977 F150 after doing a compression check Saturday and filling it up with water. The skip is now gone, the only thing I can think is it must of been a loose wire. I wa... View More
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