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A tip from experience with these cars: . Clean out the normal road crud that accumulates behind the wheel arches at the top of the rubber inner gravel protector. The DS arch in your photo looks unmolested by rust from behind, but you can be assured that unless the area mentioned isn't blasted clean ...

Antonio Boschi-- "Giu Bo"--would laugh uproariously as well as possibly sneer at your oily escapist rationalization for endorsing the mispronunciation of his patented creation. By the way, where in American English are any examples of "gui", other than gooey, which ironically wel...

FWIW - A text search for "guibo" through all the old IMON email listings brings up around 2500 instances. A text search for "giubo" yields only 18 hits. So much for having confidence in the accuracy of information in Listserves. You can call it a guibo, but to be correct it is a...

Giubo - Wikipedia https://search.app/LnrThP4JggJq6sk7A
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Damn that's a lot of work!

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Giubo.

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Two things to replace; each likely original equipped items on ymthis Scorpio:

-- transmission mount

-- giubo/flex joint

Each typically needs replacement after ~75K miles.

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Noah: Was the pump filter ripped as in your photo while in the tank? Or possibly on pulling the unit from the tank? Or while removing the filter from the pump while on your work bench?

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. I believe when new the filter material was either a color similar to as shown cleaned or possibly another color than changes into that when submerged in gasoline over time. XR and Scorpio filter colors match, so same material. Discoloration isn't crud. There are loads of posted pics of true crud o...

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Recent pics from installing a new pump in an XR (~140K) of the original filter and pump, and the filter after U thoroughly cleaned it. I believe when new the filter material was either a color similar to as shown cleaned or possibly another color than changes into that when submerged in gasoline ove...