DISASTER! &@#%£!!

Yeah, that is sound advice... you can get quite frustrated when you run after problem after problem with that nawing feeling that the car will let you down again    

Cory McCloskey posted:

 

 I was on the freeway doing about 60 when she just lost power. The accelerator seemed to be  suddenly nonfunctional. Honestly, the traffic was so noisy that I couldn't tell if the  motor had died or not!

 I was coming up to an exit, so I quickly devised my escape plan.  The basics of my plan included a turn signal, a wild waving of my non-steering arm, and knifing across three lanes of traffic, as if to say, "You guys have brakes, and I don't have a throttle. Get out of my way."

 

 

Glad you made it over there ok. That's exactly why you'll rarely find me in the left lane. 

Cory, all of this flatbed transport may seem like a good way to reduce wear and tear on your tires, but if you do the math, it's really no cheaper in the long run and may actually end up costing more.

Drive the car under its own power whenever you can.

Sacto Mitch posted:

 

Cory, all of this flatbed transport may seem like a good way to reduce wear and tear on your tires, but if you do the math, it's really no cheaper in the long run and may actually end up costing more.

Drive the car under its own power whenever you can.

 

LLLLOOOOOLLLLL   Thanks for centering me, Mitch!  Sometimes, I lose sight of the future in the name of short term benefits… 

True story time...

I used to have a '73 Mustang 'vert.

One day, while driving, it started sputtering and losing power.  Turned out to be a bad fuel pump.  Access to the fuel pump was really tight, and it took me a good half an hour loosening the top nut... getting about 1/16 of a turn, the flipping wrench for another 1/16 turn.  Then another half hour tightening it on the new one... 1/16th of a turn at a time.   My hand cramping up evry 5 minutes or so.

That fixed the problem.   About a month later, the car started sputtering and losing power, exactly like it did before, and I thought to myself... "crap, I got some POS Chinese made fuel pump, and I really don't want to replace that pump again."  It stalled and died, so I had it towed home.

It sat in the garage for a couple of months until I got the gumption to jack up the front end and start the whole process over again.   I had a golf tee ready to shove into the fuel line when I disconnected it from the pump..  The fuel line was empty..

So then I thought "well that's good... maybe it's not the fuel pump after all. Maybe it's just a bad or clogged sending unit."    I un-jacked the front, jacked up the rear, and reached up to pull off the fuel line from the tank, and while doing so, hit the side of the fuel tank with the ring on my finger...   As soon as heard that hollow sound I started laughing at myself...  I ran out of gas  the tank was bone dry.

Hopefully, your problem is as simple, and that you're not as much as a knuckle head as I am.

You're killin' me here @Cory McCloskey. Dish.

I had a mechanical fuel pump fail on a 1 hour ride home from work, back in the '70's in my hugely reliable   1974 Ford Pinto wagon.  It was after 6pm and the auto parts stores were closed.  Obviously, this was well before the advent of cell phones.  It was a 1-mile walk to the nearest gas station where I bought a $20 dollar gas can that held 2-1/2 gallons of gas.  Got back to the car, re-arranged a couple of hoses, drained the windshield washer and filled it with gasoline and connected the washer pump to the Carb inlet.  Got into the car, turned on the ignition, hit the washer button for 30 seconds and then started the car.  It would run until it drained the float bowl and then begin to stumble, so I would then hit the washer button to make it catch again, and hold the button for another 30 seconds or so.  I had to repeat this every 30 seconds or so, all the way through the 20 miles home.  Desperation, too, can be the mother of innovation.

That is frickin' MacGyver-level car hacking, Gordy.

Luv to see a you-tube,  ooh wait, the 70's. Thanks Gordon, made me laugh, as my Niners got waxed again.

Very ingenious.... I'll have to remember that next time my fuel pump lets go.. Oh I guess I should carry 20 feet of hose to reach the engine compartment.

--And you know the bastard had a cigarette dangling out his mouth the whole time...

Great story, Gordon!    I was talking to a guy down the street about the bad fuel pump, He said he stood on the front bumper and  slowly poured gas down the intake while his dad drove slowly, peering through the tiny slit under the hood.  Limped home about 5 miles that way, he said.

Yup.  That should work, too.  Ya do what'cha haf'to to get home, where you can really fix it!

Being dead poor in HS, my Olds Rocket 88 had a bad 4 bbl carb and no matter how much I pumped it, no start.  One red catsup bottle swiped from the local diner. punched a hole in the glove box ( bottle storage)   a piece of hose clamped ot the bottle nipple and into the air cleaner cover and filled the bottle with gas.                                                                        1) open glove box     2) squeeze bottle to prime carb     3) start car :~)

I think Cory ran out if gas and is too embarrassed to tell us.

TRP posted:

I think Cory ran out if gas and is too embarrassed to tell us.

I logged on just in time to witness @TRP's unprovoked attack! LOL

So sorry, all... I fully understand the importance of timely updates, but, in addition to my Thursday Speedster kerfuffle, we started moving into a new house on Friday.

I should've reported here that Wedge Vee Dub was too jammed prepping the Beetle Army faithful for this weekend's Arizona Volkstock to get under my Speedster's lid, and, therefore, had no news for me by close of biz Friday.

Just as well. The new garage looks like someone threw a grenade into a pawn shop. 

 Hopefully, things will be closer to squared-away by the time she comes home to her new bay. Lots more room for the Speedster, and, finally, a place to put my Little Tykes tool set! 

 I know I promised @Stan Galat (Wow! I guess you have to put in the entire description! LOL)  that I would  swing by Competition Engineering and snap some photos of my beautiful, sterilized, and polished parts, but time slipped away last week. 

 I hope to do so this week, instead...

 By the way – – I swore I wouldn't upgrade my cell phone until the Cubs won a world series, so, thank you, Chicago! Next stop: the Apple Store! 

 Ok, Cory, I got a good laugh out of that! Al

UMMMMM  I'm new here

HOLY CRAP!!!   I'm gone for a few seconds and the whole SOC world is crashing down..

I read through all the threads as fast as the FBI did with all 650,000 emails..

 HOLY COW MAN!!!    I have been in that situation with a  mechanical fuel pump going wonky,  cut across a few lanes myself its scary as hell and flat beds are the way to go!! LOL....

Ok I want to assemble a few guys to hightail down to AZ and help Cory..

Myself, Pat downs, Robert and Troy... we can handle the mechanical side ( Troy can help with the Sale JUST IN CASE!!)

AL. B and Stan G can chronicle the whole thing.. 

lets go team!!!  Cory needs our help!!

Tebs

Teby S posted:

UMMMMM  I'm new here

 

HOLY CRAP!!!   I'm gone for a few seconds and the whole SOC world is crashing down..

I read through all the threads as fast as the FBI did with all 650,000 emails..

 HOLY COW MAN!!!    I have been in that situation with a  mechanical fuel pump going wonky,  cut across a few lanes myself its scary as hell and flat beds are the way to go!! LOL....

Ok I want to assemble a few guys to hightail down to AZ and help Cory..

Myself, Pat downs, Robert and Troy... we can handle the mechanical side ( Troy can help with the Sale JUST IN CASE!!)

AL. B and Stan G can chronicle the whole thing.. 

lets go team!!!  Cory needs our help!!

Tebs

 

 

This is the best! 

@Former Member, I can hear those trumpets blasting out "The William Tell Overture!" Everybody saddling up and blasting across the desert...  (This is the time of year to do it!)

Fear not -- I'm not dismayed, in spite of recent derailments!  I'm sure that this most recent distraction will be a simple fix, and that I'll be back on the road yet this week.  Plus, our hero @PaulEllis will be back from his vacation this coming weekend, so we'll soon be reassembling (I way "we" will be reassembling, just to get a laugh out of myself... LOL) my 2110 with my newly-shined and refurbished parts.

I wonder if my rate of (minor) headaches is any worse than everyone else's, on a per-mile basis.  I admit -- I'm driving the H out of this car (averaging more than 1000 miles per month since buying her in June).  Maybe I'm experiencing the same ups and downs that you all would during 6,000 miles of driving.

Anyway, thanks for the offer to help, Tebs!  For sure, lunch is on me anytime any of you delinquents swings through the Valley of the Sun -- looking forward to putting faces to names!

Cory, When you get around to mounting the engine, tell Paul to be sure to wax the cam shaft before inserting it.  I use Mr. Zogs.  It will keep your shaft running slippery and hard, longer than KY oil.

craig posted:

Cory, When you get around to mounting the engine, tell Paul to be sure to wax the cam shaft before inserting it.  I use Mr. Zogs.  It will keep your shaft running slippery and hard, longer than KY oil.

Whoa!
Shots fired!

I think that is obscene even here in Thailand, and that's saying something

Oops, my bad.  I apologize to those who may have been offended and can not take a joke even if it may have been off color, risque and indelicate.  My locker room banter is distasteful and I am sincerely sorry.

I Enjoyed chatting with most of you guys over the years.  It seems my time to move on has come.  Theron, please tell me how to cancel my Supporting Membership. 

God bless you guys and God bless the United States,  it seems we're going to need it.

NO offense. My gosh it's just surf board wax - don't "get bent" out of shape. They also have - Quick Humps, Really Tacky and Navel Wax (body-boarding wax).  Hang ten or whatever.

craig posted:

Oops, my bad.  I apologize to those who may have been offended and can not take a joke even if it may have been off color, risque and indelicate.  My locker room banter is distasteful and I am sincerely sorry.

I Enjoyed chatting with most of you guys over the years.  It seems my time to move on has come.  Theron, please tell me how to cancel my Supporting Membership. 

God bless you guys and God bless the United States,  it seems we're going to need it.

Don't take it personally Craig. I find humor in just about everything, but after all I've been through and seen, my mind is a bit warped.

"my mind is a bit warped."

Well, you are not alone on this site... 

And Craig, there was really not too much wrong with your joke, IMO.

we have all posted something that we had second thoughts about after posting, mine are usually after imbibing..a week from now and no one remembers anything, hang in there

What everybody else said, Craig; we've all posted something that in retrospect we'd like to take back. It really wasn't that bad _{(as a matter of fact, I got a little chuckle out of it).}

That's the problem with politically incorrect/off color humor- it's usually spot on and really funny!

Just to clarify, I was not offended in any way

PaulEllis posted:

Just to clarify, I was not offended in any way

Thanks for the clarification Paul. With my limited knowledge of your background I was a bit shocked when I read that. A small part of me wondered if you weren't joshing seeing as how you were in Thailand and that seems to be the land of "Anything Goes".

Now that we got that all cleared up let's get back to our regularly scheduled thread and all associated thread drifts.

I'm glad I didn't follow up Craig's Sex Wax post (which I've used on my boards) with my intended injection of demented humor...

Cory - you're always on the cutting edge with cell phone technology! 

just as I was about to reply to the "how long is your Dellorto Jet" thread.  

Robert M posted "seeing as how you were in Thailand and that seems to be the land of "Anything Goes""

Just don't get caught with drugs in Thailand - penalty is death or life imprison and the prisons are not Motel 6 quality like in the US. 

PaulEllis posted:

I think that is obscene even here in Thailand, and that's saying something

WTF?  

Craig, nothing offensive with what you posted for most of us on this forum. 

WOLFGANG posted:

Robert M posted "seeing as how you were in Thailand and that seems to be the land of "Anything Goes""

Just don't get caught with drugs in Thailand - penalty is death or life imprison and the prisons are not Motel 6 quality like in the US. 

Hell I was in Bangkok in 70 for 5 days for R&R from Nam..Singha beer,,hookers,, any kinda weed U want(stay away from the opium infused pot)

they told us not to say anything negative of the President of Thailand as the locals get twitchy...good times when young..

I heard all this from my friend

It's not the Thai president, it's their King you shouldn't say anything about. They really worship their king, who just died a couple of weeks ago. The whole country in in morning for the next year.

Cory McCloskey posted:

TRP posted:

I think Cory ran out if gas and is too embarrassed to tell us.

I logged on just in time to witness @TRP's unprovoked attack! LOL

So sorry, all... I fully understand the importance of timely updates, but, in addition to my Thursday Speedster kerfuffle, we started moving into a new house on Friday.

I should've reported here that Wedge Vee Dub was too jammed prepping the Beetle Army faithful for this weekend's Arizona Volkstock to get under my Speedster's lid, and, therefore, had no news for me by close of biz Friday.

Just as well. The new garage looks like someone threw a grenade into a pawn shop. 

 Hopefully, things will be closer to squared-away by the time she comes home to her new bay. Lots more room for the Speedster, and, finally, a place to put my Little Tykes tool set! 

 I know I promised @Stan Galat (Wow! I guess you have to put in the entire description! LOL)  that I would  swing by Competition Engineering and snap some photos of my beautiful, sterilized, and polished parts, but time slipped away last week. 

 I hope to do so this week, instead...

 By the way – – I swore I wouldn't upgrade my cell phone until the Cubs won a world series, so, thank you, Chicago! Next stop: the Apple Store! 

 

Cory, have you not heard...

BREAKING NEWS: Chicago Cubs are being forced to give up their World Series title.

Well said Bill...

I wish I could take credit for writing that but I can't.

Who ever did, hit it out of the park

AND WE'RE OFF!

In Paul's garage, finally able to start making things happen...

He's jet-lagged, but enthusiastic, as always!

I'm just going to toss up some pics, without much description, from our first hour or so...