The Real Bev > wrote in
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> Rod Speed wrote
>> The Real Bev > wrote
>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>> The Real Bev > wrote
>>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>>> George Grapman > wrote
>>>>>>> Anytime that I have moved I have done something like
>>>>>>> the following-loosen battery cable or radiator cap. Tell
>>>>>>> mechanic I am having trouble starting car or it is overheating.
>>>>>>> The diagnosis tells you all you need to know.
>>>>>> Harder when the car is basically undrivable with a very obvious problem.
>>>>> A powerless-steering car is difficult to
>>>>> turn, but otherwise perfectly driveable.
>>>> The OP said
>>>>>>>> I could barely turn the wheel.
>>> Pretty wimpy, if you ask me.
>> Irrelevant to whether trying what the crapchild proposed is feasible for him.
>>> A 78 deVille has got to be harder to steer than a
>>> 97 Chevy Cavalier, whatever that is, and I'm a gurl.
>> Obvious lie. You're actually a raddled old bag with rather pathetic
>> viking fantasys, do doubt a result of your gross drug abusing past.
> Yup, it took me a long time to kick that
> Premarin, but I'm a better person for it.
Pathetic, really.
>>>>> When my POS 78 Caddy blew a rod we pushed it 80 miles
>>>> or so on the freeway, the hardest part of which was the
>>>>> sharp uphill turn into the driveway which turned out OK.
>>>>> Rolling down Cajon pass with no lights
>>>>> or engine at 2:00 am is a real kick!
>>>> Pfft, you wanna try it in a landrover with no brakes at all, a coupla ton
>>>> of
>>>> soil samples, etc etc etc, much bigger drop than that. Pure doddle ya wimp.
>>> Without brakes you should have the vehicles attached,
>> Wota wimp.
>>> with the pushing vehicle capable of stopping both in a pinch.
>> Wota wimp.
> It's not practical to race around in front of the brakeless
> car and make it stop by letting it run into you. It's possible,
> but doing it in heavy traffic is a real pain.
There might be other ways to stop a brakeless car.
>>> We've done that too. And another interesting kludge: When
>>> we brought the monsterhome home it had fuel pump problems
>>> and we couldn't get up out of a railroad underpass. Solution:
>>> feeding in shots of starting fluid until we got out of the hole.
>> Pfft, nothing special.
>>> And then there was the other fuel pump problem which
>>> involved me sitting in the back with a 5-gallon can of gas
>>> on my lap with a siphon hose running down to the carb.
>> Pfft, nothing special.
>> You wanna try some of the places I've been to where there
>> is no hope of any assistence what so ever ever showing up.
>> If you cant fix the problem yourself, they'll find the corpse.
> Big deal. Have you ever had to tear down a motorcycle transmission
> to unjam some gears 30 miles from the closest road using only the tools and
> plastic
> garbage bag that your mom had the foresight to bring along?
>> > You candy-ass younguns got it way too easy.
>>
>> I'm older than you thanks.
>
> Far be it from me to say anything like "Well, then, why don't you act like a
> grown-up?" I'm much too nice a person to do a thing like that.
>
> --
> Cheers, Bev
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> "The almost universal access to higher education here in the US has
> ruined a lot of potentially good manual laborers." -- Bob Hunt
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