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My luck hasn't changed.... I had a pretty long recount typed up, and hit a key, and closed the window... !@$%$
Anyway, I'll just type the short version...
First of all for those who don't want to read all this. (OK... it turned out pretty long anyway) Thanks a lot for all the support. The tools, parts, hands, and knowledge and beer. I was so overwhelmed, I couldn't keep track of who was handing me what. Seemed like everytime we mentioned "We need a size X wrench" or whatever there were 3 people coming back with one.
This is what makes this club great. Every year, it never fails to amaze me how far the members will go to help someone get their car fixed to enjoy the weekend.
So here it goes.
Leave home, almost to rendevue point, hear noise. Get oil (had oil spray out dipstick and seperator under boost) Wasn't the problem.
Baby it to rendevue point. Consensos is it's in the valvetrain.
They head out, and we call freind. She picks us up, drops me off at Uhaul right before they close. Then takes Racheal to get her Durango.
I sit and wait...
She shows up, and we go get a receiver hitch and adaptor for the trailer lights.
Go hook up car, hit drive thru and hit highway.
Get to Kentucky and hit narrow construction zone... Kentuckians can't measure. This was NOT 11 feet wide!!! This was the most tense I've ever been driving a car... I had about a foot on either side of the tow dolley before the concrete barriers.
This seemed to last forever, but it was probably only about ten miles. I noticed that the westbound lanes were stil 2 lanes. "At least we won't have to go thru this opn the way back... unless they shift the lanes."
Arrive at hotel, and get car off dolley. (Sorry for the profanitys... That's not the normal me...) Someone hands me a beer. (Thanks! I needed that!)
After yet another beer, I'm feeling a bit more relaxed.
We yank the valve cover off my car, and sure enough, a follower was loose.
In fact, it had been worn very heavily, and there was some pretty bad wear on that cam lobe also. All other followers and lobes looke fine. This head had just been rebuilt by a very reputible shop too.
Joe Proctor says he has a head with a cam and followers I can have to get me thru the weekend. THANKS!!!
Fast forward 1-1/2 hours and we've swapped cams and followers out and it's running again.
Well, Saturday morning I started it up and got a plume of coolant mist out the tailpipe, and some more in the enging compartment. Looks like the head gasket... is the gerneral thoughts.
I give up...
We go to show in Durango and leave car at hotel.
Wife and Ginny Schmidt go shopping, and I get lots of people telling me to go buy a head gasket and we'll get it fixed tonight.
Get back to hotel, humor everyone and find an Autozone that has the only one in town, but have lost all ambition. Go to Hoooters for dinner with a few others, come back, say some hellos and everyone seems to have a few beers in them, and I decide not to mess with the car and turn in.
Sunday morning I was going to tow the car over and watch the autocross for a while before leaving straight from there to go home.
Hook up dolley, and proceed to drive car up onto it.
Hitch wasn't all the way on, and tongue flips up in the air, and almost goes thru rear window... Thankfully it didn't, but it did snag the SVO's front bumper cover. Ripped it under each foglight hole... I about cried. Mechanical stuff doesn't phase me, but it really got to me tearing the bumper cover.
Anyway, we get it hooked up right, and decide just to go home... I check the hitch and straps about three times along the way.
And once back in the previous construction zone, the westbound lanes, which I noticed were 2 lanes wide on the way over, had shifted... Yep... I get to hold my breath again...
Finally get home... get car in the garage... Check out some of the pics already posted, and chill out.
Anyway, I'll just type the short version...
First of all for those who don't want to read all this. (OK... it turned out pretty long anyway) Thanks a lot for all the support. The tools, parts, hands, and knowledge and beer. I was so overwhelmed, I couldn't keep track of who was handing me what. Seemed like everytime we mentioned "We need a size X wrench" or whatever there were 3 people coming back with one.
This is what makes this club great. Every year, it never fails to amaze me how far the members will go to help someone get their car fixed to enjoy the weekend.
So here it goes.
Leave home, almost to rendevue point, hear noise. Get oil (had oil spray out dipstick and seperator under boost) Wasn't the problem.
Baby it to rendevue point. Consensos is it's in the valvetrain.
They head out, and we call freind. She picks us up, drops me off at Uhaul right before they close. Then takes Racheal to get her Durango.
I sit and wait...
She shows up, and we go get a receiver hitch and adaptor for the trailer lights.
Go hook up car, hit drive thru and hit highway.
Get to Kentucky and hit narrow construction zone... Kentuckians can't measure. This was NOT 11 feet wide!!! This was the most tense I've ever been driving a car... I had about a foot on either side of the tow dolley before the concrete barriers.
This seemed to last forever, but it was probably only about ten miles. I noticed that the westbound lanes were stil 2 lanes. "At least we won't have to go thru this opn the way back... unless they shift the lanes."
Arrive at hotel, and get car off dolley. (Sorry for the profanitys... That's not the normal me...) Someone hands me a beer. (Thanks! I needed that!)
After yet another beer, I'm feeling a bit more relaxed.
We yank the valve cover off my car, and sure enough, a follower was loose.
In fact, it had been worn very heavily, and there was some pretty bad wear on that cam lobe also. All other followers and lobes looke fine. This head had just been rebuilt by a very reputible shop too.
Joe Proctor says he has a head with a cam and followers I can have to get me thru the weekend. THANKS!!!
Fast forward 1-1/2 hours and we've swapped cams and followers out and it's running again.
Well, Saturday morning I started it up and got a plume of coolant mist out the tailpipe, and some more in the enging compartment. Looks like the head gasket... is the gerneral thoughts.
I give up...
We go to show in Durango and leave car at hotel.
Wife and Ginny Schmidt go shopping, and I get lots of people telling me to go buy a head gasket and we'll get it fixed tonight.
Get back to hotel, humor everyone and find an Autozone that has the only one in town, but have lost all ambition. Go to Hoooters for dinner with a few others, come back, say some hellos and everyone seems to have a few beers in them, and I decide not to mess with the car and turn in.
Sunday morning I was going to tow the car over and watch the autocross for a while before leaving straight from there to go home.
Hook up dolley, and proceed to drive car up onto it.
Hitch wasn't all the way on, and tongue flips up in the air, and almost goes thru rear window... Thankfully it didn't, but it did snag the SVO's front bumper cover. Ripped it under each foglight hole... I about cried. Mechanical stuff doesn't phase me, but it really got to me tearing the bumper cover.
Anyway, we get it hooked up right, and decide just to go home... I check the hitch and straps about three times along the way.
And once back in the previous construction zone, the westbound lanes, which I noticed were 2 lanes wide on the way over, had shifted... Yep... I get to hold my breath again...
Finally get home... get car in the garage... Check out some of the pics already posted, and chill out.
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