Thread: On The Hook Two

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You've got a budding hot rodder there for sure Ken...........nothing is going to stop that Kid. Sorry about the breakdown, did you ever find out what caused it? Nice that you were able to get right back on the road and enjoy yourselves.

What beautiful countryside too, looks like Old California for sure. Bet the two of you will never forget the trip..........I know your co-pilot won't.

Don

Don-Yep, he's a good kid. The night before we left I took the car out a ran it pretty hard threw the gears, thinking I would sort out any weak links. All I did was make a weak link. What is funny is I came home bragging to my wife how the car was running so good. So the first thing she says to me when I call for help was, "yeah, you told me they always run there best before they blow up"
What really happened was when I ran it threw the gears was made the rotor run up on the shaft, then when we left the restaurant we all nailed it again getting on the freeway. Once it started moving up on the shaft it finally came into contact with the lugs inside the cap and snapped it off. The new style rotors have two set screws on them to prevent this.
It really is pretty up there, I took 119 pictures. I hope he doesn't forget all these memories after I'm gone.
Ken

The other thing is that you taught him a valuable lesson.......you can't let life get you down. Make lemonade, go to plan B, and all that stuff, but just keep going. Don was pretty discouraged when his T ate that valve on the way to Daytona, but there is always next year and that the car can be fixed. We hot rodders soon learn that these things do occasionally have problems and it just goes with the turf.

Lucky that you knew where to find a trailer!!!!!!!!

Don

Don-you are absolutely right. If anything out of all this he just learns that. He asked me once why I like working on the cars so much, hope he puts this all together when we go out with them and have a great time.
Yep, that Kendon, Home Depot, Henry Ford car .................. Do I sound like Tony Stewart?
Ken

I got it back together,went for a cruise and it did it again . I checked for any side play in the distributor shaft when it was apart and didn't seem to have anything extreme. I'm going to take it apart again tonight.
Ken