suthin_man

First I need to ask a foolish question, I need to remove the walnut shift knob on my automatic trans so I can replace the plastic slide that covers the slot opening on the console, it slides down the shifter but I don't want to bugger the knob up, How to remove? Second, when I bought the car it had an exhaust leak on the right bank so I had a local shop work on it. They showed me how worn the cam was so I told them to replace it and check the other parts out. I couldn't really afford a total rebuild so made due with new cam, timing chain, rear main seal, valve springs and pushrods along with gaskits of course. Well, after a few miles, very few, I noticed 2 things, there was some leaking from the rear main,not a great deal, and there was some smoking coming from the left tail pipe at speed. Not constant just puffs with acceleration. Took it back to shop and was told the valve seals were probably the reason.Also told them about rear main seal and was told due to that seal being an old rope type seal and if not run a lot it will always leak some. So they started to replace the seals by pressurizing the cylinders to push valves up. They then discovered that the head gaskit on the right was blown so this was corrected along with seals. Got car back and guess what? Still puffs white smoke from right bank at speed. Any comments? I couldn't afford complete re build although I'll probably end up spending that much now. Thanks