Just Changed Oil in my Slant Six
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Slant Six! I had a 74 Duster with a Slant Six! Wonder why they never fuel-injected it? I suppose more effiecient designs were in the hopper.. Mine was clean and dry, probably had well over 100K on it when I got rid of it..
Sniff.
Miss my loyal, trustworthy, reverent, etc 1972 Duster with the wondrous 225 cid slant-6 nestled between the fenders.
And, the joys of manipulating the "three on the tree" tranny linkage.
Akin to 8-track tapes it is likely most members of a couple generations newer than mine whould query, "What the heckaroo is a three-on-the-tree."
If that Duster was still in my driveway I'd buy a fedora and slouch down while driving.....my eyeballs peering over the top of the steering wheel.
Oh how cool I would be, my fedora and a three-on-the-tree.
Yep.
Miss my loyal, trustworthy, reverent, etc 1972 Duster with the wondrous 225 cid slant-6 nestled between the fenders.
And, the joys of manipulating the "three on the tree" tranny linkage.
Akin to 8-track tapes it is likely most members of a couple generations newer than mine whould query, "What the heckaroo is a three-on-the-tree."
If that Duster was still in my driveway I'd buy a fedora and slouch down while driving.....my eyeballs peering over the top of the steering wheel.
Oh how cool I would be, my fedora and a three-on-the-tree.
Yep.
My first car was a 64 Dodge Coronet with slant six and pushbutton auto. It was a great car, albeit a little rusty and pushed in at the back.
The first stick I ever drove was a yellow 65 Dodge D100, three on the tree, owned by the city for whom I worked at that time.
I think at some time in my life I'll get one of those, for my trucking needs.
The first stick I ever drove was a yellow 65 Dodge D100, three on the tree, owned by the city for whom I worked at that time.
I think at some time in my life I'll get one of those, for my trucking needs.
Forgot to say, I had that Coronet 330 for 2 years, and I didn't ever change the oil in it.
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Those slant sixes just don't die! I've heard all kinds of stories of the things that people used to do to them to TRY and kill them and couldn't! I'm not sure how true they were, but I do know that those things are darn well near bulletproof.
I own one myself and was told you could run it around a race track with no oil in it for a couple laps, add oil and don't worry about it.
Let's not forget that a whole lot of those slant sixes were connected to a Torqueflite transmission that possessed durability beyond normal comprehension.
Seems like every one of those sixes I knew were owned by friends of mine and abuse was the order of the day! I don't recall a single one of them ever failing - amazing!!!Cheers all! DV
Seems like every one of those sixes I knew were owned by friends of mine and abuse was the order of the day! I don't recall a single one of them ever failing - amazing!!!Cheers all! DV
I had a 1980 Chrysler Cordoba with a Salant 6. Oh...how I miss that car!
Another thing that helped the older slant 6's was their forged crankshaft, which was phased out midway through '76, according to Wikipedia.
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