Post #234,679
11/17/05 11:56:45 AM
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Promise of Poverty thanks to my Mitsubishi
Very dramatic attempted commute today...hop in...start her up...drive up the highway, get on the turnpike...punch it up and feel it hitch a bit in its giddyup...hmm...cylinder misfire I think...better get it in for a tuneup...get around that last 18 wheeler, look in my rearview and I appear to be driving a NASCAR type vehicle "when the engine let go". I am blowing SERIOUS smoke...blinding to the guy behind me type smoke.
So I pull over..pop the hood thinking I've lost a hose or something. As I look around, I notice a puddle of reddish fluid accumulating under my right front...look behind the car and see the trail of fluid going back as far as I can see. Now I know what the problem is.
Start the car, drop in gear...no movement. I've left all my transmission fluid on the New Jersey Turnpike.
Could it be a hose??? (Dear God PLEASE let it be a hose)
Oh no, its the front seal..the true sign of bad things. Near certain to have metal in the box now..rebuild is necessary...and I'm a couple thousand poorer as of next Wed when I get it back.
Yay.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #234,681
11/17/05 12:01:59 PM
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Coulda been worse...
Late at night on a lightly traveled back road...
Condolences. May it magically get better without expense...
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Post #234,682
11/17/05 12:02:49 PM
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Rebuild kit already on order
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #234,683
11/17/05 12:03:52 PM
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Did you call the EPA about the oil spill?
Sorry about your car :(
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Post #234,684
11/17/05 12:06:06 PM
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I'm in NJ
Its almost certainly on film.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #234,685
11/17/05 12:06:20 PM
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Cars are Capitalism's way of keeping us poor. ;-)
Things break. I'm glad you're OK. I hope you get a pleasant surprise on the repairs.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #234,687
11/17/05 12:09:39 PM
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I know the feeling
Over a decade ago I bought my sister's car and set out to drive it across country. Got to Palm Springs and I couldn't see the road behind me. Turns out that the turbo blew.
Luckily my sister felt sorry for me and paid for the repair. I certainly didn't have the money on hand!
Other than that, it was a great car. But boy was it not a comforting introduction!
Cheers,
Ben
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Post #234,691
11/17/05 12:20:41 PM
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ouch! but it should be good for a while after that
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Post #234,693
11/17/05 12:24:43 PM
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Unfortunately, when my cars have left a cloud . . .
. . of smoke behind them it's because a valve has broken off and punched a hole through a piston, probably bending a connecting rod on the way down - so my sympathy, but it could have been worse.
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Post #234,694
11/17/05 12:24:59 PM
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This the REAL reason I like Sticks.
I just like to amuse myself with the speed-racer stylee.
Clutch Disc and Plate (maybe even the throwout cylinder and bearing) are much cheaper than these auto-magic thingers.
Yes, the new Galant I bought has one, but then it was bought for the RH-SWMBO. (Red Headed - She Who Must Be Obeyed)
Cost is of no concern(only if we can't afford it does it change) when it comes to that.
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Post #234,720
11/17/05 2:59:14 PM
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Damn! Bad news, BeeP!
At least you're OK, and car didn't seize (which would have been a rather serious turn of events, I wot...).
How are you getting around? NJT?
jb4
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Post #234,722
11/17/05 3:26:56 PM
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Rental when necessary till next week.
today and likely one day next week I will be captain of the Enterprise.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #234,724
11/17/05 3:30:21 PM
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** chuckle **
jb4
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Post #234,728
11/17/05 3:33:48 PM
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God's way of telling you to get a car with a proper gearbox.
Unlucky, dude. At least you're safe.
Peter
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Post #234,733
11/17/05 4:05:23 PM
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Yeah...I know...rub it in :-)
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Post #234,753
11/17/05 5:38:46 PM
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Painful! But, at least you're OK. Stuff happens.
Alex
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
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Post #234,757
11/17/05 6:56:37 PM
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Didn't you know
that "Mitsubishi" is Japanese for "Little Piece of Shit"?
Whilst visiting some friends in San Gabriel back in 1985, no sooner had we been picked up from LAX than their Lovely Mitsubishi (mumble model name here) broke down near La Cienega Blvd. What was the problem you ask? The timing chain was literally disintegrated! Good times! Lots of adventure.
Wishing you speedy and economical repairs.
Amy
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Post #234,760
11/17/05 7:00:59 PM
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ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #234759 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=234759|ICLRPD]
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Post #234,762
11/17/05 7:19:01 PM
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The fact that you had to go back to 1985 for your story...
...sorta negates the point of it.
Peter
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Post #234,765
11/17/05 7:31:12 PM
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Not necessarily
Just that they are the only people I knew personally who had a Mitsubishi.
No one in my current sphere of existence owns one.
Peace,
Amy
"It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~ George Eliot
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Post #234,768
11/17/05 7:46:56 PM
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Hey! No fair trying to take Ben's title away from him. ;-)
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Post #234,769
11/17/05 7:53:19 PM
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Except I was going away from my house, not to it.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #234,781
11/17/05 10:09:04 PM
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How old's the car?
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Post #234,825
11/18/05 9:07:40 AM
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01
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #234,794
11/17/05 11:13:10 PM
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This is called er Carma? and is atonement for all those A6M
Mitsu Zeroes, splashed by those fiendish proximity fuzes, while they were enroute to do Bad Things to nice GIs.
They have Stayed the Course, not Cut and Run; one more Zero ... Banzai!
er, Sorry; have heard of few tranny seals expiring so dramatically :-/
How about a junkyard one from a rear-ender? Nobody pays dealer price for a re-man, right? I hear such parts are all over some newfangled thing called (The Web?) and Copart, Inc. is trying to corner the market,
so if my 100 shares go^, I'll owe ya one ;-)
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Post #234,803
11/18/05 1:05:43 AM
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glad it's only your wallet that was hurt
how old is the car? maybe it's time to consider trading it in on something newer? Replace it before it costs you more than it's worth. That's the mistake I made with our previous van. I've since learned that there are two kinds of car payments: those to the bank and those to the repair shop. The ones to the bank leave you with nicer and more reliable transportation than the ones to the repair shop...
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #235,560
11/22/05 5:16:35 PM
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Update
Spring clips broke sending clutch assembly forward into the pump and essentially cutting it in half, pulling in the piping and blowing out the top seals.
So, it chewed itself to bits and opened path for the fluid to blow straight into the engine. Lucky there was no fire and lucky it didn't shift and freeze the front wheels.
It'll be fixed tomorrow.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #235,561
11/22/05 5:19:37 PM
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Ouch. :-(
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Post #235,564
11/22/05 5:30:39 PM
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Damn!
Remind me to keep you away from explosives, or other things that are really destructive!
jb4
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Post #235,578
11/22/05 6:49:49 PM
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Tilly Jr. ;-)
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Post #235,593
11/22/05 9:26:57 PM
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Damn!
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Post #235,596
11/22/05 10:00:54 PM
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Oooh, committing hara-kiri, so to speak.
Alex
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Post #235,601
11/22/05 10:37:11 PM
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Ouch. Don't like the sounds of that.
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
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Post #235,611
11/23/05 2:03:59 AM
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oh man. I don't want to see the bill for that
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #235,624
11/23/05 8:22:15 AM
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Neither do I :-)
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Post #235,721
11/23/05 4:16:58 PM
8/21/07 6:37:35 AM
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I would just walk away
plenty more cheap rides on ebay
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Post #235,722
11/23/05 4:33:49 PM
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Trouble with that is
he knows his car and the maintainance history. On ebay, you are just buying somebody elses problem and you can't be sure what the problems are. Unless you are a very good gambler, known entities are better than unknown, if you have to walk the difference between what is assumed and what occurs. I once ought a nice looking Audi from a private individual; looked fine, motor, tranny, body were all as one would expect. I ended up walking 5 miles to a phone, taking it home because the electrics were Lucas look-alikes (actually, some grounds just needed cleaning and everything worked again. (until the wiring harnes caught fire and toasted the front of the car... but that was later...))
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Post #235,723
11/23/05 4:44:57 PM
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Whoops. :-( Good advice. Caveat emptor, always.
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Post #235,732
11/23/05 5:42:11 PM
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Besides
Repair price =1750
Trade value =4750
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition
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Post #235,747
11/23/05 6:53:06 PM
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Good deal.
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Post #235,823
11/24/05 1:44:34 AM
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trade it before it takes another bite.
Have fun,
Carl Forde
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Post #236,006
11/25/05 4:38:48 PM
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In January, he said.
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