2.On some of the smaller like the 3800 V6 & the 3.1 liter engines had a intake manifold made out of a composite material. (It must of looked good on paper, ) But, it’s job was to channel the air+fuel mixture down into the cylinders and have a good passage for the coolant to transfer from the right to the left bank in each heads. Problem ? Yeah, they did have anywhere to put the EGR valve, ( It’s an emission part) so they designed a mounting place on the right side of the manifolds for the EGR valve. Now the EGR valve is a part that works with the exhaust gases, so it gets REAL hot at the EGR valve location. Fast back to the designers drafting table, and you’ll notice that the ‘Composite material’ wasn’t designed for that much heat. Exhaust gas at the engine is about 250 degrees, more or less, but it doesn’t mean a thing since the manifolds all started over-heating burnt a hold through the side of the exhaust gases wall and coolant started into the cooling system. You can figure out how long it took for the engine to lock up. Totally shot. In fact, ‘AutoZone’ stocks a new designed manifold designed to increase the EGR weak spots. Wonderful product if you catch your leak in time. If not ? well it’s a nice thought but you have bigger problem that this part is going to fix.

So to answer your original post, DexCool is a perfectly designed chemical. BUT it has and comes with two warnings, 1. once your coolant is getting near 5 years old IT MUST BE FLUSHED AND REFILLED WITH FRESH COOLANT. 2. If you try mixing Green (Ethylene Glycol) coolant you just killed you engine as the two coolants turn to mush once mixed and heated.Beyond that my friend, you OK for take off. Good luck !

Then Hannah was wrongly convicted of murder. She and Larry simply did not recognize how seriously ill Andrew was until just before they drove him to the emergency clinic. How many times does your child go from being highly active to mortally ill in a matter of minutes? Salt poisoning is extremely rare. Watch the 20 / 20 segment or read “Murder by Omission or Conviction by Design?” in the San Antonio Express News, written by John MacCormack, the same investigative reporter who discovered that Madelyn Murray O’Hair and her family were murdered, and who identified the killers.

Larry, Hannah’s husband, was with her during the time that Andrew was getting sick and made joint decisions with her about when and how to seek medical care, was allowed to plead “no contest” to criminally negligent homicide. In less than 2 years it will be completely off his record.

He has help with the kids from family members and church friends, thankfully. But it’s still a huge burden on him. He goes to see Hannah — a 600 mile round trip — every weekend.

The article points out early on in the article that “A once-mighty industrial city is staggering because of the decline of the Big Three North American automakers and fierce global competition.”

Shortly after, “A popular bumper sticker reads “Out of a job, yet? Keep buying foreign!””

It’s only at the very bottom of the article does it mention “militant local unions are scaring potential new companies away.” And even then, it’s the “Business leaders” who are the one’s saying this; not the everyday good citizens, but the suit and tie “business leaders.”

Well I’m not a “business leader,” and as someone who currently lives in Windsor, grew up in Windsor, and spent most of my life in Windsor, I’d have to say that a great deal of the problems facing Windsor today are because of the local unions and the culture of entitlement that they have cultivated over many years into the mindset of the community members.

You can see it at the Casino.  The employees are all CAW.  Many of them have the attitude that they get paid the same amount of money if they smile or not, so why should they bother with the whole ‘customer service bullshit’

Of course, none of this was explored in this article.  It muddies the waters of good guys and bad guys.

Regards,

Jan van Kemenade

There was a reason the cops carried those big flashlights and that those flashlights had to be replaced on a regular basis.

The taser is a tool that didn’t live up to its billing as a non-lethal means of disabling suspects.  It seems to be ineffective – incidents on the news about people being tasered mulpitple times to little or no effect – or being too effective as in the case in Vancouver airport.

But I wouldn’t be sounding an alarm about the police state creeping in.  In the case at the airport and most other cases involving tasers, the matter would probably have been dealt with by a couple of high hard ones with a baton.

Looking out those numbers, I am sure I’d die cycling down Bayview before I’d keel over in front of the toob, despite what the numbers say.

For the source, see here: <http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/10/8/143547/109&gt;

(This post has a blood-curdling video of cyclists on the streets of NY by the way).