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It lives! Again. For now.....
If any of you old farts still here remember the headaches my '86 project car/ money pit/ pos has given me...I *think* I have beat them.
They were caused by Bubba. Every since I've had the car, I've had fuel pump issues. I thought it was the relays. The pump'd work fine, then suddenly no fire to the pump. I replaced relays. I ran extra grounds. I replaced pumps. I rewired the entire pump assembly. Never knew when it would quit working.You'd have full volts for a few days, then right when you needed it most- like to get HOME again- you had zero fire to the pump. September 13 was the last straw. I went for a quick cruise to take the young'un to school and came home on a trailer. Again. I was so disgusted I shoved the Corvette in the shop and let it become a shelf. Everytime I looked at it I'd get mad again. The other day, finally semi-over my mad spell, while looking at the fuse box, I could see evidence that at some time in the past the fuel pump fuse slot had gotten hot. Never seemed to affect putting a fuse in it though.... Still, I decided I would pull the fuse panel out and make sure there was still a good connection- but I never got around to it. Tonight, the wife calls me while I am at Lowe's and informs me a young friend has came by to see me. Kid's twenty, and a heckuva mechanic who has been dogging me about getting the vette back running- I come home and he had taken the "breadbox" off and found that some previous owner had CUT the wires to the fuel pump circuit and attempted to wire a fuse block in. Bubba the P.O. SUCKS at wiring....the connection was pulled apart and had a blown fuse. We rewired it, new fuse- voila, runs better than it ever has. Fired up first revolution after nearly 7 months of silence. Now, I wonder what'll be jacked up on it next.. |
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Bobby, Congratulations on getting the car running again..
That's the problem with these oldler cars, since most are over 20 years old the chances that a "Bubba" has worked on them is pretty good. That is unless your lucky enough to find one that has only had one, or just a few owners..Alot of these cars have had half azz repairs and modifications sometime in there life, and it usually shows up later on as a problem that's hard to figure out......WW |
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Much as I love this bodystyle 'vette, I think this is the last "fixer-upper" I'm gonna buy of it. Bubba is VERY creative at hiding his fixes on them... |
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Congrats. Mine had 7 previous owners, and no real sign of Bubba-ing. Until me
Now drive it and show us some pics. |
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I'd always figured you were too cheap to buy gasoline and was trying to run it on 'Shine....but I should have known better....you wouldn't waste good 'Shine in the fuel tank.
Congrats on getting it running.... |
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Lord, Friz, If I ran moonshine in it, it'd be the equivelant of jet fuel. These ole boys 'round herebouts don't play when it comes to the shine...
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I have to say that is a good feeling when you find the "smoking gun" of electrical issues. Mine has been drawing the battery down between drives. I don't get it out much so I have to leave a bat tender on it all the time. I drove it last Saturday morning and had to pull down the visor and noticed the mirror light was on. My first though was woohoo I found my drain and then I shut the car off and the light went out. Oh well, I'll keep using the battery tender and looking for a short. Glad to here you have one less problem behind you.
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Check this Bill. I had the same problem earlier with this car.....never could figure it out until I was out in the shop tinkering with the '46 and suddenly the blower motor on the vette cranked up. Nearly scared me to death, thought the darn car was possessed. I changed it out with a used one and haven't had an issue since. |
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Since we don't have a generic "everthing goes" thread and this place is mostly dead, I figured I'd revive it some by posting in this thread...
After repairing my Moneypit's issues, I drove it around 50 miles with no issues, until I got home and notice something hanging down on the passenger side. It was the freakin' floorpan. Bubba had cracked it in the past, apparently worse than I realized, since I haven't had it up on a rack... So today we started the repair on that. Definately not heading for Bloomington Gold, but it'll work for a driver. I cut up an old heat duct that a friend that works for a heating and air company brought me, pop rivited the metal to the broken floor pans, and stitched them back together. Tomorrow, I'll start fiberglassing the inside of the floorpans and rubber coating the bottom side.... At least I'm not doing the Flintstone now.... |
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Sounds good. I have a couple corners on my storage bins that are cracked.
Can you take some pictures for showing your progress here? Glad it's running more to your satisfaction! |
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And that ain't no way to welcome your long lost brethren. And Bunky, I suck at pics....but I'll see if I can get some when I start 'glassing it in- which, thanks to my disease of procrastination-itis, won't be today. It is a perfect spring day here, and the '46 is going for a drive and it MIGHT involve fishing poles and dirt roads...then the grill is getting fired up. |
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I love that '46! Absolute CLASS! Hope fishin' was good! Do possum have gills??? |
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http://s997.photobucket.com/user/five-oh_photos/media/public/20140111_124515.jpg.html And a pic of the old store we stop and get glass bottles of Dr. Pepper and summer sausage fresh sliced for our rides.. http://s997.photobucket.com/user/five-oh_photos/media/public/20140315_142001.jpg.html And just 'cause I'm in a pic posting mood, and to keep it C4 related- My heap, affectionately known as the MoneyPit: http://s997.photobucket.com/user/five-oh_photos/media/public/20140412_175417.jpg.htmlDon't know if the pics are working or not... Last edited by five-oh; 05-25-2014 at 8:31am. Reason: Screw photobucket. I hate them |
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