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whats the most unheard of problem to happen to you?

Reply #30 –
floored the 5.0 SO motor in my 88 XR-7 with my girlfriend in the car and started seeing white smoke and smelled antifreeze.  Pulled over and saw the two heater core hoses were torn and completely ripped off the firewall connection of the heater core due to a bad motor mount.  Had to "put put" it back home.

whats the most unheard of problem to happen to you?

Reply #31 –
Quote from: beast50;404729
floored the 5.0 SO motor in my 88 XR-7 with my girlfriend in the car and started seeing white smoke and smelled antifreeze.  Pulled over and saw the two heater core hoses were torn and completely ripped off the firewall connection of the heater core due to a bad motor mount.  Had to "put put" it back home.

 

This is why i use silicone heater hose. If you get engine torque over you dont trash the core of break the nipples off.
I spend money I don't have, To build  cars I don't need, To impress people I don't know

HAVE YOU DRIVEN A FORD LATELY!!

whats the most unheard of problem to happen to you?

Reply #32 –
Years ago i had a customer with a parasitic current draw. The car would not start if it sat for a couple of days. I checked that car out from soup to nuts. Let it sit for a week and it worked perfectly. Then it happened again. The battery was dead in the guys driveway. Once again i checked it and no draw down??? So i told the customer not to jump the car when it dies and i would come to the car. Well i found the trouble. The guy had a steep driveway and he parked it their in stead of pulling it in the garage. Well i opened up the trunk and the trunk light was on. This was because of the angle. I installed a manual switgh in stead of the mercuy switch and all was well in the world!!!
I spend money I don't have, To build  cars I don't need, To impress people I don't know

HAVE YOU DRIVEN A FORD LATELY!!

whats the most unheard of problem to happen to you?

Reply #33 –
just re-glued on the headliner in my 84 4eye,  storm was on the way but at the time, i didnt see how a storm was a problem since i was in the car and out of the rain, besides, i was settled in the back seat with all my tools and stuff just pokin along.
wife yelled out that if i wanted to eat warm instead of cold supper, i better come in.  (actually  she was worried and had a feeling about the below).

while i was eating my grilled cheese's, it happened.  now at my age then and today, i can button down a couple grilled cheese in a couple minutes. 
It felt like i had just walked in the door when this happend.

Insurance totaled it for a payout of 1300.00.  sold the motor / trans for 500, sold the rest of the car for 800, some shop stopped by because someone needed a whole front end and this was a perfect match down to the color/year/lights.  i then purchased the white coug in my sig for an additional 600$.
I actually test drove this car (minus the tree) for a guy who asked me if it ran,, i said yeah, sure,, so i hopped in through the folded driver door sitting kind sideways with my whole body on top of the roof while reaching down kinda between my knees to steer, feet barely made it to the gas and brakes but the car ran fine.  Got the cops called on me for driving it and they all actually ended up wanted to see me do it.  Figuring it was a setup knowing those va beach cops at the time, i wasnt gonna show em, just told them it was true, wont happen again and im sorry.

this was in 93 down in va beach.

whats the most unheard of problem to happen to you?

Reply #34 –
what is it with stupid technology today.
it use to be that when you took picture,then put it up here it looked just like the same file on your pc.. the one above is stretched wide. 
same for stupid tv shows now, since im still sporting a Tube tv, i dont get the full screen i paid for anymore.  same happens with this stupid iphone.

that picture above does not look like the picture that is on my computer.

whats the most unheard of problem to happen to you?

Reply #36 –
LOL,, dude,

your looking at a 2.5L gm mod and you would have never known.
theres lots of stuff in that bugg that made it quick.
but wait, it gets better............
he fabricated a larger speedo cable from the front driver wheel up to a gear box and a blower that sat up front.  he used the internal heating plumbing to get air pushed back to the motor.
Ive never seen another like it,, this guy could make anything out of anything.. on reason for his divorce i guess.  His mind was too busy with cars and less on watching out for his primary duties...something i can say ive been guilty of more than once.

I didnt really get along so to speak with him all that well because everything i did was  to him, but i put up with it and learned a few things.  I ended up figuring out why i didnt look forward to him walking over to my lot with "that look" on his face when i was working on stuff.  His favorite introduction (with busch beer in hand) was  ,,, "hey squid, whatcha shagin up today?",,,,, looking back on it, its funny cause most of the  time he was right!!!!!!!!
well.. was.... this was 20years ago.

whats the most unheard of problem to happen to you?

Reply #37 –
Quote from: Thunder Chicken;404122
CoogarXr, that reminds me of a similar experience I had:

Years ago, when driving my '80 Formula Firebird (this would have been 1990 or so) I was driving like the 18 year old ass hole that I was, and had just finished passing a bunch of people at lord knows what speed (the speedo maxed out at 85) when the windshield turned green and a whole bunch of steam started pouring out from under the hood. I pulled over with steam everywhere and was then passed by all the people I'd just passed. Turned out I'd blown the right side tank off the radiator. My father and I soldered it back on, right there on the side of the road, with a propane torch, a can of plumber's flux, and a roll of plumber's solder. We got it back on, but it leaked forever after...

'Nother story:

My first Bird, a 1985 V6 model, was carbureted, as most Canadian ones were. Carbureted V6 Birds had an anti-backfire valve in the smog pump setup designed to prevent the system from pumping air into the system during throttle-lift situations. This is because when you lift off the throttle on a carbureted car they briefly go pig rich as the vacuum spikes. That pig rich mixture doesn't burn well because there's little air in the cylinder, so lots of raw fuel gets dumped into the exhaust. If the smog pump were to continue pumping air into the exhaust at this point it would cause that unburned fuel to ignite and cause a backfire, hence the valve. Which failed on my car on the very day I was trading it in on my next Bird. I was driving it to the dealership and was coming down a steep hill off the highway into the city. I let off the gas and heard what sounded like a gun shot, only louder, and accompanied by a loud flash under the car. Scared the bejeesus out of me, and apparently out of the driver of the car in the lane next to me, who promptly    almost went into the ditch. The car got extremely loud and I heard clunking and banging under the car as if I'd run over something. A look in the rearview mirror showed my exhaust system lying in the road. I literally blew the ler right off the car...

A weird one with my '88: It was sitting on the floor in my garage, and I was working on something on the bench, when I heard a loud "SPANG!" sound coming from the car. I looked around to see where the noise came from, and discovered the most unusual thing: One of the front coil springs had broken (the only reason I even looked at the springs was that the noise sounded "springy"). It broke not at the bottom, where they always break in these cars, but at the top. While the car was just sitting there. Where it had been sitting for a few months. Why it decided to break right then is beyond me. Actually took a picture of that:

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you should write short stories,, seriously!
its just the way you describe things,, constantly im laughing , i can see what you typed.

and that spring,, funny as hell.
 

whats the most unheard of problem to happen to you?

Reply #38 –
I really dislike pine trees but not these kind!