rp23g7
Well-Known Member
So, here i am, slow day at work, with the next subject to talk about.
What is the craziest fix or repair you have done to your car to nurse it home from the middle of nowhere?
Mine?? this was in 82 0r 83. Well, we were on a cruise home from Vantage in Washington from a concert, pretty much the middle of nowhere, at 3 in the morning, driving my 64 Custom 880.
My engine started running like garbage going up a hill, knocking and bucking, for 30 sec or so, then it smoothed out. Strange. I slowed down to stop on the side of the road to check it out, hit the brakes, and nothing happened, straight to the floor. @$#$#%.
Parking Braked my self to a stop and looked in my master cylinder. Nothing in it, WTF. I didnt have any brake fluid in my bag of tricks. And i was 30 miles from the pass. HMMM. WTF. Middle of the night, nobody around, we had a 6 pack of beer still with us. I loosened up my bleeder screws and poured beer in my master cylinder, and saw a fluid trail down the booster on the firewall, hmm cracked diaphram? I think the bad running engine was from it sucking the fluid up.
I took the vacume line off and plugged it, me and my buddy bled the brakes till beer came out.
Tried the brakes, a little spongy, but they stopped the car, if you were gentle.
So we drove 30 or so miles up the pass till be got to a open gas station.
Best part? Well, we were pulling into the gas station it took a couple of stops to get there. And the brakes were getting bad, stopped and bought some brake fluid, took the cover off of the master. WOO HOO BEER STEAM GEYSER. Bled the brakes and cruised on home, woot
What is the craziest fix or repair you have done to your car to nurse it home from the middle of nowhere?
Mine?? this was in 82 0r 83. Well, we were on a cruise home from Vantage in Washington from a concert, pretty much the middle of nowhere, at 3 in the morning, driving my 64 Custom 880.
My engine started running like garbage going up a hill, knocking and bucking, for 30 sec or so, then it smoothed out. Strange. I slowed down to stop on the side of the road to check it out, hit the brakes, and nothing happened, straight to the floor. @$#$#%.
Parking Braked my self to a stop and looked in my master cylinder. Nothing in it, WTF. I didnt have any brake fluid in my bag of tricks. And i was 30 miles from the pass. HMMM. WTF. Middle of the night, nobody around, we had a 6 pack of beer still with us. I loosened up my bleeder screws and poured beer in my master cylinder, and saw a fluid trail down the booster on the firewall, hmm cracked diaphram? I think the bad running engine was from it sucking the fluid up.
I took the vacume line off and plugged it, me and my buddy bled the brakes till beer came out.
Tried the brakes, a little spongy, but they stopped the car, if you were gentle.
So we drove 30 or so miles up the pass till be got to a open gas station.
Best part? Well, we were pulling into the gas station it took a couple of stops to get there. And the brakes were getting bad, stopped and bought some brake fluid, took the cover off of the master. WOO HOO BEER STEAM GEYSER. Bled the brakes and cruised on home, woot