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Re: Real life trumps the internet everytime
3 years ago....
Had recently purchased my '85 Z28, took it on a road trip to SE Ky for some camping fun with the wife and kids(they went ahead of me by 4 days, I had to work).
Longest drive I've made with the car to date....did very well on the way down, and ran great while I was down there.
3 days later, time to head back to Indy......rather uneventful up 75 from London to Lexington, east on 64 to Louisville.
Around the Waddy/Peytona exit, I start noticing smoke coming out the back of the Camaro, and that it isn't pulling like it should. I pull off to the side, wife comes up sreaming " your car is puking trans fluid all over the van!". Rear seal took a dirt nap....YAY!!
For some odd reason, I happened to have one in the hatch.
Limped it up to the rest area, jacked it up and swapped it out with a screwdriver, a hammer and a chunk of wood I found in the grass. Had a couple of quarts of ATF, topped off the trans. Off we go....
Make it through Louisville, get back into Indiana. Make i as far as Scottsburg, header bolts start backing out. Pull over again, burning hands and swearing like a sailor while cinching down the afore-mentioned bolts with a pair of Vise-grips.
Fan belt let go just north of Seymour, fabbed one up with a roll of duct tape.....lasted for a week!
3 years ago....
Had recently purchased my '85 Z28, took it on a road trip to SE Ky for some camping fun with the wife and kids(they went ahead of me by 4 days, I had to work).
Longest drive I've made with the car to date....did very well on the way down, and ran great while I was down there.
3 days later, time to head back to Indy......rather uneventful up 75 from London to Lexington, east on 64 to Louisville.
Around the Waddy/Peytona exit, I start noticing smoke coming out the back of the Camaro, and that it isn't pulling like it should. I pull off to the side, wife comes up sreaming " your car is puking trans fluid all over the van!". Rear seal took a dirt nap....YAY!!
For some odd reason, I happened to have one in the hatch.
Limped it up to the rest area, jacked it up and swapped it out with a screwdriver, a hammer and a chunk of wood I found in the grass. Had a couple of quarts of ATF, topped off the trans. Off we go....
Make it through Louisville, get back into Indiana. Make i as far as Scottsburg, header bolts start backing out. Pull over again, burning hands and swearing like a sailor while cinching down the afore-mentioned bolts with a pair of Vise-grips.
Fan belt let go just north of Seymour, fabbed one up with a roll of duct tape.....lasted for a week!
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