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Offline Smelly_Cat

Gas tank cleaning for the new year?

« Reply #30 on: July 16, 2009, 08:25:02 PM »
update.  Im cruising along 75  to Hamelton Mall,  When all of a sudden.  Bang on the back right corner panel.  What the...   Nothing was in the road that I drove over.  I think lug bolts.  nope.  count them.  Exhaust pipe.  looks like its there.   Then I figure   Tire balancing lead weight flew off.    I don't have a weight on the outside rim.   Do you always get a weight on the inside and outside of a rim?  Could Tito have done a crap job on my tire?  DO I have to drive to Fla on an unbalanced tire to get it fixed?   SC

Offline virgo062

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Gas tank cleaning for the new year?

« Reply #31 on: July 17, 2009, 09:39:19 AM »
SC could it have been a rock in your wheel? I had the exact same thing happen to FeeBee and never did find out what the problem was. I did have my tires balanced several days after the incident but no problems since.

Offline ASBug

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Gas tank cleaning for the new year?

« Reply #32 on: July 17, 2009, 11:47:48 AM »
Quote from: "Smelly_Cat"
update.  Im cruising along 75  to Hamelton Mall,  When all of a sudden.  Bang on the back right corner panel.  What the...   Nothing was in the road that I drove over.  I think lug bolts.  nope.  count them.  Exhaust pipe.  looks like its there.   Then I figure   Tire balancing lead weight flew off.    I don't have a weight on the outside rim.   Do you always get a weight on the inside and outside of a rim?  Could Tito have done a crap job on my tire?  DO I have to drive to Fla on an unbalanced tire to get it fixed?   SC


Whew, for a minute I thought we were talking about Smelly Cat on I-75, then I read the part about going to Florida....
I know you are not going to drive him to Florida...

If you have some decient tread, a tire can hold a rock for a long time before letting go.

When I had the '72 Honda coupe, it wasn't uncommon for the engine to loose a nut / bolt on the interstate about every other month, the engine vibrated violently (2cyl, on a 360 sroke...).  It was always fun to hear a bang /thump, see something bouncing out from under the car and then play a game of -check brakes, engine and steering while flying down the highway...

Most of the time it was the bolts holding the exhaust to the heat exchanger...

Good luck, but my bet is on a rock.

KC :D

Offline Zen

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Gas tank cleaning for the new year?

« Reply #33 on: July 17, 2009, 02:17:45 PM »
Quote from: "Smelly_Cat"
Im cruising along 75  to Hamelton Mall,  When all of a sudden.  Bang on the back right corner panel.  What the...   Nothing was in the road that I drove over.  I think lug bolts.  nope.  count them.  Exhaust pipe.  looks like its there.   Then I figure   Tire balancing lead weight flew off.


SC, was it between the 75/24 split and before East Brainard Road?  You know there's a crazy old guy up near the top of the hill that has a big Dasher parts launcher and he loves to try to take out shade-tree bug mechanics with it . . .  and he's a pretty dern good shoot too!  I sneek through late at night when he's asleep and pick up his used projectiles . . . one more wheel bearing and my Dasher will be back on the road!

Offline Ret.Bugtech

Gas tank cleaning for the new year?

« Reply #34 on: July 17, 2009, 02:50:37 PM »
BE VARY VARY AFRAID !!!!!   I have night vision goggles and the launcher has heat seeking capability.
       What I would like to know is ,  How and why did Stupey get so far away from the Triangle ?  I didn't think that Stupey could run fast enough to sling a tire weight off. :lol:  :lol:

Offline Smelly_Cat

Gas tank cleaning for the new year?

« Reply #35 on: July 17, 2009, 06:57:27 PM »
To clear things up.   the car is the acura.  Stupie is Ok but I aint going to the mall in the magic cant idle beetle..  

Just for kicks I stuck duct tape all around the carb base to see if that might plug a vac leak.  Well.....the tape kind of jammed the choke closed and stupie ran great. Except when I was stopped and I idled at maybe 2000 rpm.  I did not have to press the gas pedal to get going from a stop...  

SC

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