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Thanks for the reply Richard. All I can say is the center carrier and bearing were replaced but the driveshaft will be coming out in a few weeks to prep the car for summer. We will check the carrier along with pinion and trans angles to see if the problem can be resolved. Thanks again

Hey Jim. When in September do you think you might come up? We have our annual fishing trip for 4 days the weekend after labour day. We wanna see the car if you do come up. We'll have one or two :cheers and maybe cruise a bit.

I've heard it's just the 409 cars as well.

:( Whenever the 409 gets driven, it shudders at launch. It does it most prominently in first gear but does it in all four. The car did when it was put away over 30 years ago and after being rebuilt last year it still does it. Everything in the car is new or rebuilt. Two new clutches were tried...

409 vote Your right Bob. It's stupid the way the votes are counted. One vote would be a lot simpler and less time consuming than a once a day thing. I guess the guy wants lots of people checking out his site.

Thanks You Jim Appreciate that Jim.The response has been good. Gotta start working on the car soon to get it to Back To The Fifties in June. Dq409 helped me out with posting on Chevytalk. TWO IS BETTER THAN ONE EH?

Chevytalk forum Hi Jim. Thanks for the tip about posting on chevytalk. The problem I am having is I don't see where to create a post. Maybe I'm blind, I don't know. I've logged on and been accepted but I don't know what to do. Can you help...

This is my first posting so I hope it's right. A friend and I spent 10 months from Sept to June in 2002-03 restoring one of 17 425 Chevy 409 cars built in Canada. The car is now in a contest on musclecarplanet.com and we're spreading the word looking for support in the vote. I figured the best...