--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F5G00055 Date: 04/14/98 From: RON TAYLOR Time: 09:35am \/To: ROB MCCART (Read 0 times) Subj: MC fuel tank RM>RT#This weekend a buddy suggested filling the tank with water and freezing > #it. Theoretically, when the water expands, it will force the dent out. > #Sounds plausible, simple, painless, and by far the easiest. RM>Not good plans... I used to custom paint bikes for a living and >ran into this sort of thing from time to time.... I abandoned the freezing approach after the advice of several others on this echo. RM>Another possibility... take a hammer and make the dent >into a better shape - add some bondo to smooth it off >and leave it as part of the new tank shape... B) I welded a bolt to the tank and used a slide hammer threaded to it to pop the dent out. Worked like a charm except for the little hole I blew in the tank with some sloppy welding technique :). After cutting the bolt off, repairing the hole, a tad of Bondo, and some elbow grease sanding it, she looks like new. We're just about ready for the final paint job. Right now, I really pleased with the results. Thanks Ron --- * QMPro 1.02 42-7029 * Junk - stuff we throw away. Stuff - junk we keep. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Crime Bytes (1:135/5.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F5G00056 Date: 04/19/98 From: JOHN FAERBER Time: 09:13pm \/To: JOHN PUMMILL (Read 0 times) Subj: Engine Knock JP> Okay, interesting to have a balancer out but quite possible. JF> What could have gotten thrown out of whack as it ran just I am guessing you saw the message about the 2 different balancers. Putting on the proper one of the 2 always helps! (G) )of course being given the right one also saves alot of headaches!) --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: * MacSavvy OS/2 BBS * Dallas, Texas * 972-250-4479 * (1:124/1208) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F5G00057 Date: 04/19/98 From: TOBIAS HEUER Time: 09:38pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: GM-HEI and SPARK-PLUG-CABLES!?! Hi. is it ok to put non-carbon cables (such as Spiral-Wound-Steel or Copper) onto a GM-HEI system? Possible Benefits? Possible dangers? thanks. --> [*HEUER*] eMail *THeuer@mailonly.ftn.de* --- CrossPoint v3.11 * Origin: *SHIT* (2:241/500.6) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F5G00058 Date: 04/11/98 From: ROB MCCART Time: 04:56pm \/To: GARY HALL (Read 0 times) Subj: Timing belt lifespan? RM> it up and went home. Went to move it the next morning and got RM> click.. click.. After a bit of solonoid bypassing have pretty RM> much decided that the (one year old) starter motor is fried. GH# On thing on them Fords I run into a lot of problems with the # ground cable corroding at the engine block. You need to check # for a draw also I have saw lots of problems with the Ford # alitnators drawing the Battery down through the field coils. # The regulator dont shut them off. Yes... and the damn (expensive!) relays (EEC, etc...) will do it as well if they stick.. not to mention the fuel pump relay. In someone's wisdom they have a ground wire directly to the starter motor so that is covered. It's back up and running again and it was a bushing and something else in the starter motor. Had it rebuilt myself this time rather than going the trade-in route. Cost me $50 instead of $120 so that turned out to be a good idea. (Someone else's. I wouldn't have thought about it...) --- # SLMR Rob # Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii? # # PDQWK 1.2 #53 --- * Origin: NetComm BBS 303-730-7045 (1:104/603.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F5G00059 Date: 04/11/98 From: ROB MCCART Time: 05:18pm \/To: JAN DEBOER (Read 0 times) Subj: Engineering??????? JD#Didn't the Chev Monza with a V-6 have the same sort of problem - IIRC #you had to loosen the rear engine mount and jack up the engine to do the #back plugs! How does stuff like that ever make it to the marketing In the Gremlin's case it was because they wante to catch the 'I'm broke but I want a muscle car' market and so they shoehorned a V8 in a car never designed for it. The Monza might have been the same type of thing - a V6 in a car designed for an inline 4. JD#Oh for the days of my GMC six-banger inline. You could clamber in there #and stand beside the engine to work on it! Ha.. yes. I at some point had both a 64 and a 67 full size Pontiac with a 230 inch inline 6. You could put up a family of 4 under the hood around the motor. My 300 inch inline 6 Ford Pickup is nasty to work on because the fuel injection makes it look like someone was trying to build a space shuttle on top of the motor. You also have to pretty much climb right under the hood to get at the plugs. My old '66 327 Chevelle was SO much easier to work on... Good thing too since I almost lived under the hood.. (More due to upgrades than unreliability. The motor ran wonderfully even after Mondo building it (575 hp on a dyno) but I couldn't keep transmissions or rear ends in it. (Modified to fit Chrysler Hemi clutch - never had any problems with slipping after installing it but absolutely could not get the car rolling without squeeking the tires.) I once trashed the tranny drag racing in a BIG parking lot. It just started quietly building revs and slowing down. Took it to a tranny place to get a rebuilt and when I went back the guy said that it wasn't worth 2# as a trade-in... but that he'd like to see the engine that could do THAT to a transmission... He split the cases and just poured the contents into a trash can. Not a single shaft or gear was in one piece. --- # SLMR Rob # Why flotation devices under plane seats, not parachutes? # PDQWK 1.2 #53 --- * Origin: NetComm BBS 303-730-7045 (1:104/603.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F5G00060 Date: 04/11/98 From: ROB MCCART Time: 05:22pm \/To: JAN DEBOER (Read 0 times) Subj: Sprint Engine JD#Odd, seeing that they are entry level cars, at the very bottom #of the new car market. You'd expect simple economics would force #many owners to be do-it-yourselfers! I don't know about their economics but there sure seems to be a LOT of young people who know nothing and don't WANT to know anything about cars other than turning the key and putting in gas. I suppose it's partly because so much of it's becoming too complex to work on at home, but you'd think people would still want to change their own oil and do a minor tuneup if they aren't both busy and wealthy... --- # SLMR Rob # Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime? # PDQWK 1.2 #53 --- * Origin: NetComm BBS 303-730-7045 (1:104/603.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F5G00061 Date: 04/11/98 From: ROB MCCART Time: 05:27pm \/To: ALL (Read 0 times) Subj: VW What? Got a closer look at the new VW Beetle the other day... FRAUD!... They have the engine where the spare tire and gas tank should be... and it's not even air-cooled!... B) --- # SLMR Rob # Imagined a world with no hypothetical situations? # # PDQWK 1.2 #53 --- * Origin: NetComm BBS 303-730-7045 (1:104/603.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F5G00062 Date: 04/20/98 From: DON BLEVINS Time: 08:33pm \/To: MODERATOR (Read 0 times) Subj: Your not nice.... ...recall me? asking about a Heavy Equip/Diesael engines echo??? and you said sure do know of one...go here and tell that moderator that this moderator sent you...your a nut! That da^*d near got me booted right off to start....and you "say" your a nice person???? isn't that a bit like "military intelligence"???? something like an oxymoron...Perhaps you need to say something to me for setting me up you do-do...!! Thats all there is to that...moving right along..... --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0 * Origin: AT LAST BBS! (1:346/2) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F5G00063 Date: 04/21/98 From: JOHN PUMMILL Time: 06:36am \/To: JOHN FAERBER (Read 0 times) Subj: Engine Knock JF> I am guessing you saw the message about the 2 different JF> balancers. JF> Putting on the proper one of the 2 always helps! (G) JF> )of course being given the right one also saves alot of JF> headaches!) I had not seen it as of yet. I am sure I will be enlightened. Any damage done to the pickup sensor ?? --- FMail 0.94 * Origin: Running from the Klan in the Fiero (1:123/30) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 246 AUTOMOTIVE Ref: F5G00064 Date: 04/21/98 From: JOHN PUMMILL Time: 06:48am \/To: KENNY HENDERSON (Read 0 times) Subj: TCC Lockup KH> Those SZ50s are friggin' awesome! 2 weeks ago I lined up KH> with a '95 KH> Camaro Z28 at a redlight. The guy was real nice, car was KH> stock. Picking on the common folk again... KH> We both took off, I put it to the floor quickly, though I KH> didn't floor KH> it right away. I got a nice launch, probably the equilavent KH> of a 2.1 60 KH> foot time. I ended up winning by about 2 1/2 car lengths up KH> to 80mph. Not bad, where was your biggest pull area, hole, mid, or top ?? KH> I figure winning by 2 1/2 cars in what basically amounted to KH> an 1/8th KH> mile race was what I would expect being as his car was KH> stock. Anyways, You would spank him and install a new pair of pampers in the quarter. :) KH> with those crappy Proxes, 1st gear was unusuable. If I went KH> WOT in 1st KH> gear at anytime the car would be all over the place. Those Wow, Kenny sure is slow out of the hole but he looks cool. KH> Firestones KH> hanlde quite well as well. I have to admit, I do like the KH> way the KH> Formula handles with the Eibachs burt its still not what I KH> want. Its KH> funny because all of my friends think my car has awesome KH> handling, KH> because of course it outhandles fox body Mustangs, but its KH> nothing near KH> a car like yours. I have pretty much given up on it. The You must focus Luke, use the force. Obi-won has suspension upgrades in the back of Car and Driver, etc. Biggest problem you should be facing now is body roll taking the car off center when you set it in deep. You would think those stiff springs would not give... Before you thrash the car too hard install one of those nifty supports that run across the front of the car from shock tower to shock tower. Firms up the front of the car before you crinkle an inner fender well from stress. (I hope they make them for your car, I am going to get one for mine later in the year) KH> car KH> absolutely sucks going over bumps in mid-turn. It makes me KH> really want KH> a Supra Turbo, a nice used one :-) Ahhh, you are changing your colors and wanting more driving... I got tired of the quarter mile, there are just so many passes you can make in a straight line before you get bored with it. KH> By the way, I know a few people with the new '98 FBodies KH> with the LS1. KH> One guy has the stock 3.42 gears, everything is stock, a 6 KH> speed, its a KH> Z28 1LE, this guy went 13.1 @ 108mph! Damn. Nice. KH> 13.1 @ 108mph! That is awesome! And yes, I know its true I KH> have seen KH> the slips! At the end of the American RWD era we get it right. KH> Thats the best though, average is 13.3-13.5 for the 6 KH> speeds, and KH> 13.5-13.8 for the A4s. A 3.23 geared A4 usually goes KH> 13.5-13.6, and I KH> think thats excellent! I have seenn dyno tests showing Spectacular for a production car. I can remember when 13s was competitive for a street car. KH> 13-14 horsepower KH> from a cat-back exhaust system. (dynos that friends of mine KH> have had KH> done, not in magazines). I haven't seen what a K&N dynoes KH> at with these KH> cars, but I think its safe to assume it would help about KH> the same as it KH> does with my car, about 10 hp.. So if I had my two mods on KH> an A4 LS1 KH> FBody, its safe to assume I would be at about 13.2 or 13.3 KH> with my BFG KH> drags. I think thats awesome! Quite. You doing well otherwise ?? --- FMail 0.94 * Origin: Running from the Klan in the Fiero (1:123/30)