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Re: The Ride Home (very, very long)
Hey Tony, glad to see you made it! What a hell of a
weekend, thank goodness for the free flight!
I saw Daun when he had just sent the photos to you
before the purchase...a nice service! And yes I'm
lucky to live near him!
Glad the wheelbearing worked out...happy to have
helped.
And BTW Nice Roc! Good to have met you face-to-face.
Have fun and get on down again in June!
Ron
--- Anthony Pelletier <vwnuts@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> First off, I'd like to publicly thanks Daun Yaegly
> for
> helping me aquire my new car(1980 Scirocco S). He
> was
> nice enought to put me up for the weekend and let me
> use his garage. Also special thanks to Ron Pieper
> (sp) for helping me install new weelbearings &
> races.
> We did a good job. 1000 miles and no howling. I
> also
> discovered the wheels were missing thier hubcentric
> rings causing the car to vibrate all over the road.
> A
> friend from home made a killer suggestion to loosen
> the wheels and tighten the lugs 1/4 turn a piece,
> and
> hope the wheels self-center. It worked, no more
> shakes.
>
> The ride home began pretty uneventful. Ohio is a
> very
> flat and boring place to drive though. The first
> stop
> is where the fun began. I ate lunch at McDonalds
> just
> outside of cleaveland. When I went to restart the
> car, I flooded it. (the car has a certain way that
> it
> has to be started. You must turn the key and wait
> 10
> seconds or forget about starting it.) I spend a
> good
> 15 minutes getting it running again. I drove over
> to
> the gas station next door and I bought a bottle of
> washer fluid so I could clean my winshield without
> having to pull over(this time not shutting the car
> off). I filled the tank only to find that it wasn't
> hooked up to the squirter in the hood. Rather than
> mess with that for an hour, I decided to leave it
> alone. It was while doing this that I noticed that
> the alternator belt was really loose. I tried to
> tighten the alternator, but there was some funky
> pully
> set up and if I tightened the belt up any more the
> fan
> blade from the alternator would hit the the braket
> that holds the alternator on the block. So I had no
> choice but to drive with it really loose. I would
> have bought a belt and installed it, but it was
> definately a non factory set up and the belt going
> from the crankshaft to the waster pump had no
> adjuster. This meant that replacing the belts would
> require both the crank pulley and the waterpump
> pulley
> to come off. I really didn't want to do this at a
> gas
> station.
>
> I got back on the highway, being really careful not
> to
> rev it to high and shoot off that belt. The highway
> between Cleveland and PA was downright brutal
> especially on coilovers. It was here I think I lost
> my motorcycle gas cap. DOH! It was a nice piece.
> I
> pressed on and made it to Jim J's by 6:00. I took a
> bio brake and checked out the cabby. Oh and thanks
> for
> the rag that I used as a gas cap! I was back on the
> highway by 7:00. I was hoping to pull an all
> nighter
> and be home by some time in the early morning.
>
> It was after I was driving with the headlights on
> for
> awhile, that I noticed the alternator light start to
> glow. Oh shit I am thinking, now its really going
> to
> get ugly. I deceided to drive till it died, then
> deal
> with finding a battery and a belt. Compounding the
> whole alternator situation, was the fact that the
> battery was in the trunk with some very marginal
> home
> wire going from the battery to the alternator. Can
> you say voltage drop? I kept driving. I am
> starting
> to get really cold. I didn't dare to run the heater
> because I knew it was a big power user, and it
> doesn't
> work all that well anyway. Finally around 10:30
> tired
> and cold, I had to stop and some shit hole hotel
> 30mi
> east of Albany. I turned in and hit a huge hole and
> cracked my front spoiler. (not seriously, but its
> still cracked) I crashed for the night, checking on
> the car hourly to make sure it was OK.
>
> In the morning the car was really hard to start, but
> finally it fired. I fueled up replaced my sock, I
> mean gas cap, and hit the road. The car was runnig
> well and I tried to make up some time.
> Unfortunately
> it caught up with me on 495 in Mass. I got a nice
> ticket for 81 in a 65. I get to give the nice
> people
> in MA $135 for driving fast in their state : (
>
> I was very glad to arrive in Maine around 12:00 on
> monday. Contrary to what this sounds like, I
> really
> do like my new ride. I can't wait to start working
> on
> it. Oh and Thanks again to Daun, Ron, and Jim J for
> helping me out this weekend.
>
> Tony
> (new scirocco owner)
>
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