How Embarrassing!!!

Wayne 962 · Wayne 962's Garage

Well, proof postive that even the so-called experts have bad days. I recently installed a clear see-through fuel filter into the car so that I could see if the fuel pump was working properly. Well, today I saw that it wasn't. Too bad there's not much you can do to swap out or clean out a fuel pump on the side of the highway.

One of these days, all of the issues with this car will indeed hopefully be sorted out.

-Wayne

charlesbahn · charlesbahn's Garage

Looks cool, even on the tow truck.

makaio · 04-23-2005, 05:45 PM

I feel your pain. I had to have my car towed once. The dang roll pin in the pedal cluster broke, and I didn't know exactly what happened so I had it towed home.

Shuie · 06:03 PM

It happens to the best of us. I ran out of free tows last year.

The last time was really a hoot. The car started sputtering and backfiring literally as I pulled into the crowded PCA dynoday parking lot

. damned points

I limped around the corner and called AAA, using my last free tow of the year

Bill Douglas · 04-23-2005, 06:02 PM

To me (and the nighbours) it looks like you are coming back from a big day at the track with your non-street legal mean machine.

jyl · jyl's Garage

I must have missed learning that you bought that 911. Looks great. Did you sell the 308?

Fishcop · Fishcop's Garage

Humble Pie is what keeps us normal

86 911 · 86 911's Garage

That's all right Wayne. In the last year, the 911 broke down twice...er... the battery died. There was a third time, but that was when the car was in the driveway, and the fuel pump gave out. I'm sure most of the people that saw your car on the tow truck thought it was towed as going to a racing event! That car is sexy!

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geof33 · 04-23-2005, 06:34 PM

Jeez Wayne, that's nothing!! My fuel gauge was acting up a couple of years ago and I thought I had the "anomalies" figured out... I ran out of gas right in front of the main entrance of an exclusive resturant/gathering place... Imagine a Pcar being fueled by a gas can in front of one of the finest establishments in town!!

limble · 04-23-2005, 07:11 PM

Wayne,
What year is your long hood?

Wayne 962 · Wayne 962's Garage

Thanks for the votes of moral (or should I say moralle) support. It's a 1972 with the oil tank in the middle for better weight distribution...

-Wayne

BigKenSteele · 04-23-2005, 08:42 PM

Wayne, I think that you should raise hell with your parts supplier

Rufblackbird · 04-23-2005, 09:47 PM

must be a thing with '72s...my fuel pump died last summer a month after I bought it, and I had just gotten on base when miles of crazy drunk rednecks were waiting to get out. I made a post about the embarrassment as well...

Wayne 962 · Wayne 962's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by BigKenSteele
Wayne, I think that you should raise hell with your parts supplier

Can't blame me - I bought this car completed, and I don't think any parts on it came from Pelican...

-Wayne

Bobboloo · Bobboloo's Garage

I think it was really super of the tow truck company to paint a red stripe on their truck to color coordinate with your cars' stripe.

limble · 04-24-2005, 04:43 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Wayne at Pelican Parts
It's a 1972 with the oil tank in the middle for better weight distribution...

-Wayne

Wayne,
Middle? Do you have pictures or can you describe how it was done?

Paulporsche · 04-24-2005, 09:46 AM

Could be worse...you could own a Ferrari!

PorscheGuy79 · PorscheGuy79's Garage

Quote:

Originally posted by limble
Wayne,
Middle? Do you have pictures or can you describe how it was done?

All 72's had the oil tank moved to the center of the car with an opening on the side for filling it. You can see the hatch in the picture if you look hard for it. It was changed over in the rest of the years because there were several cases of people and gas attendents mistaking it for the gas tank filler door and filling the engine oil with gas and ruining the motors.

Quicksilver · 04-24-2005, 12:28 PM

You call that a tow? It looks like you weren't even trying. The truck says it is from Canoga Park.

Sometimes you need to need to put in a little extra effort into your activities. If you want to tow it give it a MANS tow.

This is 50 yards outside the exit gate of Sequoia national forest just north of Visalia. I stopped at the gate and it stuck in neutral.

Thank god I had supportive friends with me.

241 miles to Mission Viejo but at least the first seven miles were free!

limble · 04:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by PorscheGuy79
All 72's had the oil tank moved to the center of the car with an opening on the side for filling it. You can see the hatch in the picture if you look hard for it. It was changed over in the rest of the years because there were several cases of people and gas attendents mistaking it for the gas tank filler door and filling the engine oil with gas and ruining the motors.

That much I knew. Wayne's post made it sound as if it was moved from the original location. Which wouldn't have surprised me given the fact he is near so many of them GruppeB rascals.