okay, i just got back from the most horrible driving trip.


i left Tegendaga (Reserve where all the shit went on in June, also up by Belleville area) at...1am... heading home to peterborough.


car is running great. no problems seems unusually peppy.


then i started smelling what kinda smelt like paint thinner... first i thought maybe it was the reserve (ya never know) then i thouhght maybe it was my car.

so i texted bandi, and he couldn't really tell me what was going on....


so i settle down for the 2 hour drive home and drive for a bit, then

sputter sputter sputter sputter sputter......shake shake....STALL.



i turn the key, starter whines then...

sputter sputter sputter sputter......STALL.



so at this point i'm in total darkness no flashlights to speak of.

so i pushed the car.


i pushed it for about 45 minutes to street light so i could see.


spent another hour figuring out the problem. turns out it was a bitched Spark plug (go figure)


then i had a sketchy drive home where the car wanted to quit the whole way. of course i didn't have my spark plug gapper on me. heh. really ironic.


you ever have those moments where you lovee your car soo much? until it breaks on you?

don't worry i love my car again. but i hated it all night.


i'm soooo tired. off to bed now thats my rant.

...every time i make my car payment...

Samurai

Posted by househunter Tegendaga

Tyendinaga?

Posted by atomx Tyendinaga?

yes that place.

Everytime I fill up and drop $120.00 - I want to trade the boy in!!!

Posted by oddspot Everytime I fill up and drop $120.00 - I want to trade the boy in!!!

i just tallied up my gas receipts from the past 10 days... $165.00 in fuel between the Lumina and the SS.
I need to stay my ass home more!

75 bucks to gas the gt from empty these days, ill get the sunfire back out soon, as soon as i figure out where the loose wire is stopping my DRL and highbeams from working

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! 75 bucks to gas the gt from empty these days, ill get the sunfire back out soon, as soon as i figure out where the loose wire is stopping my DRL and highbeams from working

check for a set of wires under the radiator tie-bar. It goes two wires into one... anyways, where the wires come together, it always rots/corrodes and won't let the headlights work. In my Cavalier's case, it was the low beam on one side and the DRL's (but I wired my DRL's disabled as they aren't required here in NY)

Yeah, it's a very love-hate relationship, mainly with my truck. Like when I order a custom billet grille for it only to find out that at some point in the past, someone had inexplicably swapped out the radiator support for one from a 91-93 so it wouldn't fit. Or when the fuel pump goes out - twice. Once in the middle of town, and so I called my dad and told him what happened and asked him to bring the trailer in and get it because I thought it was the fuel pump, and he didn't believe me, so he didn't bring the trailer. He didn't think I knew what I was talking about, I guess he thought he'd get there, connect a loose wire, and it would all be good. Well, after messing with it for a minute, he says "It's the fuel pump, nothing we can fix here" so we towed it home, a 20 minute trip, with a chain, effectively scratching the hell out of the bottom of my custom bumper. Or the other time when, almost back to my girlfriend's rental cabin after picking her up from the airport after not seeing her for months, it crapped out at 2:30AM in the middle of nowhere at the end of February. There are a few choice places I'd rather spend a night with my girlfriend than in a single cab 1985 Chevy S10. Luckily I happened to have a sleeping bag in the back to cover up with, but it was still pretty freezing. Neither of us had a cell phone at that point, and there probably wouldn't be service if we did. There wasn't a house for miles, but there was a cabin rental business that we broke down literally across the street from, so we just waited for that to open at 8 AM and used their phone.

Posted by CDSbigsby Yeah, it's a very love-hate relationship, mainly with my truck. Like when I order a custom billet grille for it only to find out that at some point in the past, someone had inexplicably swapped out the radiator support for one from a 91-93 so it wouldn't fit. Or when the fuel pump goes out - twice. Once in the middle of town, and so I called my dad and told him what happened and asked him to bring the trailer in and get it because I thought it was the fuel pump, and he didn't believe me, so he didn't bring the trailer. He didn't think I knew what I was talking about, I guess he thought he'd get there, connect a loose wire, and it would all be good. Well, after messing with it for a minute, he says "It's the fuel pump, nothing we can fix here" so we towed it home, a 20 minute trip, with a chain, effectively scratching the hell out of the bottom of my custom bumper. Or the other time when, almost back to my girlfriend's rental cabin after picking her up from the airport after not seeing her for months, it crapped out at 2:30AM in the middle of nowhere at the end of February. There are a few choice places I'd rather spend a night with my girlfriend than in a single cab 1985 Chevy S10. Luckily I happened to have a sleeping bag in the back to cover up with, but it was still pretty freezing. Neither of us had a cell phone at that point, and there probably wouldn't be service if we did. There wasn't a house for miles, but there was a cabin rental business that we broke down literally across the street from, so we just waited for that to open at 8 AM and used their phone.

My Pinto was like that.
was down at school, 3.5 hours from home and the engine started this light, unhappy tick near the top. It was a forbearer of bad things to come. So, I call my Dad. He's like, 'what do you want me to do about it?' So i say fuck it and start for home. I was a mile or two from campus when the engine went BANG! and start an unhappy knock... So I drove it home knocking like a bastard. Turns out that #4 spark plug had blown itself apart and was arcing off the engine... 3.5 hours from Kingston NY to Port Henry NY on 3 cylinders up the NY Thruway... have i got balls or what?
Anyways, had to change the camshaft, followers, valve seals, valve springs, had a 3-angle valve job performed and PMS shave the head. I had a Pinto that was an assassin after that.

Posted by Samurai check for a set of wires under the radiator tie-bar. It goes two wires into one... anyways, where the wires come together, it always rots/corrodes and won't let the headlights work. In my Cavalier's case, it was the low beam on one side and the DRL's (but I wired my DRL's disabled as they aren't required here in NY)

i love you you are a GOD i just fixed that thank you so very much, Now i just have to find an inner fenderwell for the passenger side. Samurai, you are a GM guy. what would you do. which would you keep as a beater and wich car gets fixed as a summer car. 97 old man driven grand prix, only thing wrong, radio blown (replaced with a sony) runs well no ABS (sensor busted and im not changing a bearing for that)

or a well worn 01 sunfire GT. oh the gt has AC the GP no

Posted by Samurai i just tallied up my gas receipts from the past 10 days... $165.00 in fuel between the Lumina and the SS. I need to stay my ass home more!

get a bike

car > bike

I just drove the Tercel out to the Gaspe peninsula for to service at a rally race... about a 3,000 km round trip, $308 spent on gas in total, but I've still got 3/4 of a tank left.

I never thought I'd see the day where I put $57 worth of gas in a Tercel. (And I AM running premium because of the engine swap)

Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! i love you you are a GOD i just fixed that thank you so very much, Now i just have to find an inner fenderwell for the passenger side. Samurai, you are a GM guy. what would you do. which would you keep as a beater and wich car gets fixed as a summer car. 97 old man driven grand prix, only thing wrong, radio blown (replaced with a sony) runs well no ABS (sensor busted and im not changing a bearing for that) or a well worn 01 sunfire GT. oh the gt has AC the GP no

well, both cars are exceptional for parts. There are millions of W- and J-bodies left in salvage yards all over the place. The Sunfire, seeing as it's in the twilight of it's career should be kept as the day-to-day, rainy/snowy day I-don't-give-a-shit-about-it beater. The Grand Prix can be made to look en fuego! There is a kid here with a 98 or 2000 Grand Prix GT sedan with weird offset wheels on it, tinted windows, headlight covers, aluminum accents on the grille opening and a Holden HSV-look gray accent on the radiator intake. It looks NICE, but the kid is a flaming douche bag so he never hears this.
Believe it or not, RKSPort still offers upgrades for the W-body as well...

Posted by Samurai It looks NICE, but the kid is a flaming douche bag so he never hears this.

lol... nice

Posted by Samurai well, both cars are exceptional for parts. There are millions of W- and J-bodies left in salvage yards all over the place. The Sunfire, seeing as it's in the twilight of it's career should be kept as the day-to-day, rainy/snowy day I-don't-give-a-shit-about-it beater. The Grand Prix can be made to look en fuego! There is a kid here with a 98 or 2000 Grand Prix GT sedan with weird offset wheels on it, tinted windows, headlight covers, aluminum accents on the grille opening and a Holden HSV-look gray accent on the radiator intake. It looks NICE, but the kid is a flaming douche bag so he never hears this. Believe it or not, RKSPort still offers upgrades for the W-body as well...

i work on a rez and it turns out the 97 till ? grand prix is the official indian car now, there are 8 in the parking lot at work!

my vw is like that ex gf you keep fucking and getting fucked over by, but cant totally break it off with

I used to have a BMW/Hartge 325is like that...

I named it Whitney (after a girl I knew at the time)... because, I'm sure it would be a LOT of fun if it wasn't so damned unreliable!

Posted by Nismo my vw is like that ex gf you keep fucking and getting fucked over by, but cant totally break it off with

from all the VW people i know, ALL VW's are like that.

Posted by Samurai well, both cars are exceptional for parts. There are millions of W- and J-bodies left in salvage yards all over the place. The Sunfire, seeing as it's in the twilight of it's career should be kept as the day-to-day, rainy/snowy day I-don't-give-a-shit-about-it beater. The Grand Prix can be made to look en fuego! There is a kid here with a 98 or 2000 Grand Prix GT sedan with weird offset wheels on it, tinted windows, headlight covers, aluminum accents on the grille opening and a Holden HSV-look gray accent on the radiator intake. It looks NICE, but the kid is a flaming douche bag so he never hears this. Believe it or not, RKSPort still offers upgrades for the W-body as well...

Sam, you should see the style they're putting on cars down here. Try a 1980 something Monte Carlo or other barge type car with 21 inch wheels, pneumatic suspension(aka the old low rider with the bounce type thing) and these huge two part chrome spinner rims, as they turn, there's this weighted thing inside that's like blue or red and it spins inside the spokes of the wheels. The worst part, the whole thing was painted like this electric purple. It wasn't a black or hispanic guy driving the car either...I know, stereotypical, but it was actually a white guy.
I really wanted to laugh, but you don't laugh in some parts of the city, or so I've managed to learn from my coworkers.
I was just shocked that people will still drive these things instead of the smaller more economical cars.

Shael