Timing, Tuning, and Bug Hunting

Hi!

Hey Elliot...I know you want to fix your truck rather badly, but why not wait until you can settle down and finish moving? I assume you're not trying to pull the stuff you are moving with using that same truck...

William The Guesser

William The Guesser,

Yea, it's loaded onto the car carrier now. No more getting done to it for a while now.

The base timing set helped, but didn't seem to solve whatever it is, and it's intermittent. At least it has enough power to move up onto the carrier (it didn't have that much when it got stuck in a 6" rut a couple of days ago). And when it's good - it's good!

It's an intellectual curiosity at this point more than anything else. My wife wants something newer (ie: GMC Jimmy, or Buick Rendezvous) - so it's an excess vehicle anyway.

It's tempting to go to NY via Hazelton and just junk it but then again, I've never registered it so I could just let the strippers have at it in NY (you know - those car shells along the road through Harlem).

It's fully loaded with my curbside collected junk too. There's the extra engine, tranny, and a few parts for it, and then there's 3 lawn mowers and a couple small motors, and most important the 4' section of railroad track.

So depending on where I land in LI, and the tolerance level there for parked vehicles, it might just make it there with me.

I'm hoping the hotel has an internet room or something

- otherwise the NG may not hear from me for quite some time. I will preserve my PC connection till I pull out Saturday morning.

Elliott

"William R. Walsh" wrote:

One can only hope...............

Your pal,

Doc

Shit..... I already feel sorry for his new neighbors. Poor bastards don't know what they're in for. Bob

Hi!

Well, that gives you something to shoot for, if nothing else...

I'd never even seen a stripped vehicle until I traveled fairly well into northern Illinois--up around DeKalb or so...and even then it was only a Buick that had no glass and very little interior left. The body looked remarkably good though...

So I can't really say that "I know"...but I think just sending it to "the strippers" is kind of a waste...

Good luck with your move. Let's hope you get that poor old truck to work like it should again.

William The Guesser

you should try driving I95 through The Bronx... last time I went through there there were several stripped vehicles on the side of the road and one that was on fire.

-Bret