Orange was Chevys V8 engine color up till the very late 70's. They became blue along with all other GM engines about the time GM got sued for putting Chevy engines in Oldsmobile cars. After that crap, GM painted them all that blue color and the paper work with a new car stated that "this GM Veichle has a GM engine made by various GM divisions". By the time GM painted the 454's blue, the valve spring and valve seal problems were pretty well worked out and they were a reliable engine that used very little oil, but swilled gas at about 10 mpg. The price you pay for a 450 CI engine in a 6000 pound pickup. Was that "no traction" pickup a 2 wd ?
With a 700+ pound 454 setting over non powered front wheels, they had little traction in mud or snow, especially a dual wheel rig.
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Today's Featured Article - Tuning-Up Your Tractor: Oil, Oil Filter and Air Breather - by Curtis Von Fange. In the preceding articles we discussed some of the various aspects of doing a comprehensive tune up. Hopefully some light was shed on why we do or don't do certain things pertaining to inspections and order of events when doing a tune up. Perhaps some useful reasons were given for why parts fail and what to do about preventing part failure in the future. All these tips will help us think and reason out a problem in order to make our tune up last and, hopefully, keep us from spending extra mone
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