Help: Looking for IBM timing belt replacement.

[Joe R.]

   The '68 chevy didn't use a timing belt, it used a timing chain. Just
like all the REAL American cars! Personally I wish they all still did. I
hate these stupid rubber timing belts! All they're good for is generating
revenue for the delaers when they slip or break and you end having to buy
half of a new engine or a new car.

   Joe



At 04:33 PM 12/23/04 -0800, you wrote:
>I could use a timing belt for a '68 Chevy...
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>--- John Lawson <jpl15 at panix.com> wrote:
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>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, Joe R. wrote:
>> 
>> >   I doubt McMaster Carr will be of any help. You have to have an account
>> > with them AND a tax number before they'll sell to you. And that's even if
>> > you walk into one of their locations. I doubt they'd even talk to you if
>> 
>>    Um, that's just the opposite of my own experience - I buy from them all 
>> the time - just got a roll of magnet wire in to re-build a motor - gave 
>> 'em my credit-card and shipping address and it showed up the next day. 
>> Ditto with the cool little Whitney-Roper hand metal-punch kit. Ditto with 
>> the timer for my little pressure-washer.
>> 
>>    You sure you aren't thinking Grainger? Those boys can be obtuse when 
>> they want to.  But I've never had a bit of the trouble you relate, with 
>> McMaster, for many years now. Strange...
>> 
>>    Stock Drive Components is a great outfit, and have a lot of the more 
>> obscure stuff that is sometimes needed in restoring Old Gear.
>> 
>> 
>>   Cheers
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> 
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