OutLaw
04-15-2004, 02:38 AM
Well I'm back in Texas.
But not with out out alot of help ( Donations, helping hands ) From fellow HAMBers and Hot Rodders.
Thanks: Boys from the Vultures and Gordini's garage ( Flesh Gordon ) swell fellas and all around nice guys
The Boys north of the 49, Jay , Camron and Tyler for taking me to the salvage yard and getting the rear end ( Also helping put it back together )
All the people who helped lifting the car and the many donations who I don't remember ( or even got )your names
50 Ford and his financial backer for the offer to come pick me up and a ride home.
Flt-Blk for getting the word out.
The people I drove there with, Jeff, Janet, Nathan and Lacy for fronting me money and the many trips to the drive shaft shop and sticking by me.
Dan's driveLine for the expensive but speedy drive shaft.
Nevada Transmission for staying open late and cutting a cash deal for my new tranny. ( which dosen't leak a drop )
All Hot Rodders and HAMBers who called offering support ( cash or information )
Last but not least......
The Kings of Nothin, Joe Marro for use of the drive way, a cherry picker and the tools, supplies. This guy is awsome stayed up all night helping me get my shit together. At first I thought it was kinda sketchy...Destroy my car and a drunk guy comes riding up on a schwin with his ass hanging out and says if I need anything call him.( At second thought if we were in Texas it could've been me on the bicycle )
For the record.. I'm sure my problems started in New Mexico where I hit a patch of construction and shered a weight off my drive shaft. Of course I didn't relize that ( shaft didn't vibrate at high speeds )till I slowed down in traffic. All of a sudden the car started to vibrate like a space shuttle during re-entry but at 2500 rpm in 3rd gear it would smooth out. So no problem right just drive fast ( OK ) Finally get to Vegas and start and looking for the obvious there it is the weight, so I pull it and take it to Dan's 150 bucks later I have a new yoke and a balanced drive shaft.. Late Sat night I decide to do what I'm good at and pull to the far side of the parking lot and start to pull some RPM and Ka-Boom all hell breaks loose ( stomach sinks ) look under car and there is a oil fall and my drive shaft is laying there. back it up to a parking spot and I'm looking at the drive shaft and the pinion gear ? Seemed to have torn it from the pumpkin http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif picked it up, set it on stands and proceded to check it out. Pumpkin crap , Drive shaft crap, Axles OK http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif. After recieving help for those noted above we pushed my car back to its resting spot.
Sunday drove to salvage yard and got rearend for $150 Drum to Drum ( thought ahead and took measurements bought a housing that will fit my roadster ) With help from Canadians , and parts from Flesh Gordon got rear end put back together. Now I though I was only weighting for drive shaft had fun rest of day. Monday work up went back to Dan's with bent driveshaft, Replaced drive shaft for $250 dollars go back to Gold Coast and instal in car.....But I don't go any where http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif start looking around and see crack from one side of the bell housing to the other http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif At this point the car is for sale! After calming down I find transimssion and go get it. 2 hours later tow truck shows up and I'm off to Joe's house Pulled engine and tranny there ( sorry about the mess ) Reinstalled filled drove 5 blocks down the street and back. Then said goodbys to new friends and 2 in the morning started back to Texas. Luckly the rest of the trip was uneventful. w/ the new gears I even got killer gas milage.
The best part of the whole trip was finding help from all these people I didn't know just comming from no where.
Also the fact that my girlfriend/////// New fiance ( Proposed at the Hoover Dam )stood buy me all weekend and diddn't complain once.. God I love that girl
Sorry if I forgot anyone
But not with out out alot of help ( Donations, helping hands ) From fellow HAMBers and Hot Rodders.
Thanks: Boys from the Vultures and Gordini's garage ( Flesh Gordon ) swell fellas and all around nice guys
The Boys north of the 49, Jay , Camron and Tyler for taking me to the salvage yard and getting the rear end ( Also helping put it back together )
All the people who helped lifting the car and the many donations who I don't remember ( or even got )your names
50 Ford and his financial backer for the offer to come pick me up and a ride home.
Flt-Blk for getting the word out.
The people I drove there with, Jeff, Janet, Nathan and Lacy for fronting me money and the many trips to the drive shaft shop and sticking by me.
Dan's driveLine for the expensive but speedy drive shaft.
Nevada Transmission for staying open late and cutting a cash deal for my new tranny. ( which dosen't leak a drop )
All Hot Rodders and HAMBers who called offering support ( cash or information )
Last but not least......
The Kings of Nothin, Joe Marro for use of the drive way, a cherry picker and the tools, supplies. This guy is awsome stayed up all night helping me get my shit together. At first I thought it was kinda sketchy...Destroy my car and a drunk guy comes riding up on a schwin with his ass hanging out and says if I need anything call him.( At second thought if we were in Texas it could've been me on the bicycle )
For the record.. I'm sure my problems started in New Mexico where I hit a patch of construction and shered a weight off my drive shaft. Of course I didn't relize that ( shaft didn't vibrate at high speeds )till I slowed down in traffic. All of a sudden the car started to vibrate like a space shuttle during re-entry but at 2500 rpm in 3rd gear it would smooth out. So no problem right just drive fast ( OK ) Finally get to Vegas and start and looking for the obvious there it is the weight, so I pull it and take it to Dan's 150 bucks later I have a new yoke and a balanced drive shaft.. Late Sat night I decide to do what I'm good at and pull to the far side of the parking lot and start to pull some RPM and Ka-Boom all hell breaks loose ( stomach sinks ) look under car and there is a oil fall and my drive shaft is laying there. back it up to a parking spot and I'm looking at the drive shaft and the pinion gear ? Seemed to have torn it from the pumpkin http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif picked it up, set it on stands and proceded to check it out. Pumpkin crap , Drive shaft crap, Axles OK http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif. After recieving help for those noted above we pushed my car back to its resting spot.
Sunday drove to salvage yard and got rearend for $150 Drum to Drum ( thought ahead and took measurements bought a housing that will fit my roadster ) With help from Canadians , and parts from Flesh Gordon got rear end put back together. Now I though I was only weighting for drive shaft had fun rest of day. Monday work up went back to Dan's with bent driveshaft, Replaced drive shaft for $250 dollars go back to Gold Coast and instal in car.....But I don't go any where http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif start looking around and see crack from one side of the bell housing to the other http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif At this point the car is for sale! After calming down I find transimssion and go get it. 2 hours later tow truck shows up and I'm off to Joe's house Pulled engine and tranny there ( sorry about the mess ) Reinstalled filled drove 5 blocks down the street and back. Then said goodbys to new friends and 2 in the morning started back to Texas. Luckly the rest of the trip was uneventful. w/ the new gears I even got killer gas milage.
The best part of the whole trip was finding help from all these people I didn't know just comming from no where.
Also the fact that my girlfriend/////// New fiance ( Proposed at the Hoover Dam )stood buy me all weekend and diddn't complain once.. God I love that girl
Sorry if I forgot anyone