So there I was... Yesterday morning it felt "not quite terribly freezing" so I thought I'd drive the 71 to work in the morning. It's been about a week since I'd drove it, so it was due anyways..... So I hop in and fire it up, Drop her in drive and it just sits there and spins the right rear tire. I can't even get it to rock at all. I get out and take a look..... Over the last week, it's gotten "semi warm" during the day. Just warm enough to start to melt a little of the snow/ice. Then at night it just freezes again. Well, long story short, the car is sitting on a perfectly smooth patch of ice, at the BOTTOM of my driveway (it's on a little hill) with about a 1" tall chunk of frozen snow drift in front of the front tires, and the corner of my garage about 6" from the back bumper. So I go in my garage and grab a hammer, some salt, and a few shingles (yes...shingles work great for helping get a car unstuck) The whole time, I leave the car running, and work at getting it to move. Mind you.. this is at 6:30 in the morning, and I'm not a morning person. Anyways... I try for about 15-20 minutes, and finally give up. By this time, I'm thouroghly pi$$ed and frozen. I drive the Yukon to work. As soon as I get home yesterday, I mess with it some more and get the car unstuck (it took 4 shingles) p. I pull it out of my driveway and notice it's very low on gas so I drive up the block to the gas station. There's 75 cars in line waiting to get gas, so I just drive back home and park it on the street for the night. This morning I get ready to go to work and it's "not quite so freezing" again. So I go out and start the yellow car again. This time I come back in the house to let it warm up. 10 minutes later I go outside to leave... and the car isn't running. :eek2: I hop in it and it won't start. (NOW WHAT?!?!) ou: Look at the gas gauge..... totally on "E" I drove the Yukon again today ou: I think the car doesn't like me any more! I dumped the 1/2 gallon of gas that I had in my garage into the car after work today, drove to the same gas station again, praying that it wouldn't run out before I got there.... The place is PACKED again This time I didn't drive away. I shut the car off and sat there and waited. As of right now.. the car is sitting on the street, no ice, and a full tank of gas. If I don't get to drive it to work tomorrow for some reason...... ou: :laugh:
Ever drive a car that sucks gas sometimes and politely sips other times with no gas guage? I've been stranded a few times (such as the 2am across town-had to walk home past some bar/drug raid[?] that took 6 cop cars blocking the street-time).
Did yoy make shure those are new shingles. Old ones may have tacks still in them.....that's usualy my luck.
the gas thing reminds me of when i got gas in the '72 once... pulled in... pumped the gas... it was on E of course... got in to start and the sucker wouldn't start... apparently i had been running VERY low on gas and there was virtually none left and it had to work its way from the tank to the carb hehe .. that was interesting to say the least for me...
REminds me of the time about a month and a half ago. my skylark was infront of my house and low on gas. actually, it was teetering on E. so i go out one day after work to fire it up and she cranks almost starts then sputters to a dead stop. after that it just cranks and cranks. figuring its just out of gas i dump 5 gallons in. crank...crank...crank...nothing o No: i figure its flooded so i let it sit about an hour. go back out, cran...crank...crank...nothing. ive got a see through fuel filter, so its got gas. i pull a plug, its got no spark. so i test the coil and its good, then proceed to replace the condenser figuring the spark is dead there. still nothing. i forgot to ground the plug!! ou: as soon as the plug was grounded it has spark so pull the #1 plug and set the motor to TDC and look at the rotor, it should be pointing to #1 cylinder on the cap but not with my luck. its dead on at #5!! timing chain skipped a couple of teeth. figures, it was the original one after 195k!!! i wonder what they were thinking making teflon gears?? :rant:
ice & tires several years ago , a good family friend owned an old army jeep . he let the jeep sit outside all the time . on this occasion , after a winter thaw , the jeep was parked about an inch of snow & ice . well that very night he jumps into the jeep , fires her up & pops the clutch . just a horrible crunch & he kissed the transfer case gears goodbye . all four wheels were frozen solid in the ice ! he had a very costly breakage to repair .
Yay ... It let me drive it to work this morning. :laugh: btw... the shingles are new. (Left over from getting my roof done last summer) btw2... there's nothing wrong with the gas gauge... I just wasn't paying attention btw3... Erik.... 99 Yukon 4X4 (as in GMC... not as in Yukon Jack) p
I was on about the term pi$$ed which means drunk in proper English, I think you forgot the off bit for American English? :laugh: p :laugh: p :laugh:
Well, this might make you feel better: Prior to starting the resto I drove my 67 around on errands. I stopped at the local tire shop to get a valve fixed for one of my Wagon's tires. It was stop number 3 of 5, and I was already running behind so naturally when I got back into the 67... it wouldn't start! No click, no rotation, nothing. Pop the the hood, check the battery terminals for crud (unrestored car at this point), then I gave the battery a couple choice words for being old and obviously dead. Trudge into the tire shop, buy a battery. $120. Hook up the battery. Now I'm 30 minutes late and inventing whole new curse words for the car. It still won't start. Nothing. Not even a click. Sitting in my car and seriously considering the satisfaction it would bring me to crush it I happened to rest my hand on the console shifter... ...and drop it from Drive into Park. Being in a ridiculous rush I shut the car off without thinking. At least the tire shop took the battery back. I think they just wanted to take pity on a poor mentally challenged soul.
LOL!! Now thats funny p Thanks for sharing Clint :laugh: For what it's worth... I would have kept the battery though. I just can't imagine telling the tire shop guy why I was returning the battery. ou: :laugh: Erik.... I learned something today. I had no idea that pi$$ed was used as a term for drunk. LOL :beer
Just one of those days.....lol I wish I lived nearby, I'd go cyphon all the gas out of your tank and wait behind a tree just for a laugh....Then of course, after you were done pounding on me, I'd give it back..lmao:Brow:
"E" F.Y.I.------- "E" doesn't mean "Enough" or "Extra"!:laugh: :laugh: P.S. I learned that from my own experierences!:grin:
Rick, are you and I related somehow?:laugh:ou: That's about MY luck, too. Maybe it's a '71 (Skylark) issue.:TU: Nah! It's just you.:TU::laugh: My VERY First car was a '71 that had a bad fuel sending unit, so the gauge was NEVER correct. At the time, I didn't even know what a "SENDING UNIT" WAS, so how could I FIX it?o No: I always kept the tank full, but I "guesstimated" how much was in there by the end of each week. Quite a few times, I was WRONG!:laugh: Sure enough, I'd be driving along, when, all of a sudden, it would just STALL!ou: No matter HOW FAR I was from home, I REFUSED to let my car SIT on the side of the road, in case someone would come along to "mess with" my car (take parts, or do damage, whatever). That is "true love"! To PROTECT your car from those who would abuse it!:laugh: If I was going to WALK home, then MY CAR was going WITH me!:Smarty: Note: That was BEFORE "cell phones" were convenient, as they are NOW.:laugh: That was my "exercise" plan: the "5 mile workout" (PUSHING the car home!).:laugh: My girlfriend (at the time) used to think that was an "excuse" for us being "alone" on the side of the road, until I MADE HER GET OUT AND PUSH, TOO!:eek2::laugh: And to think, we've been married ALL THIS TIME!:TU: She STILL helps me "push" the cars in and out of the garage, once in a while, when I want to work on them, but I try not to "remind" her of the past.:TU: Even to this day, I will NOT let my car(s) (BUICKS) sit on the side of the road, unattended!:Smarty: There's always "someone" out there who wouldn't have any problem taking something that doesn't belong to them (like a New radio, for example).:af: It's not about "insurance", it's the whole PRINCIPLE of it. If it's not YOURS, then LEAVE IT ALONE!:Smarty: I don't like to do work on my own vehicles as a RESULT of SOMEONE ELSE'S STUPIDITY (like fixing my Driver's Side Door, that no one will confess to "backing into"!:af: )! The DIFFERENCE, though, is that I DO know what a fuel sender is, and I also know HOW to FIX it, so I don't have to worry about getting "too much exercise".:TU::laugh: Buicks put the "mental" in "temperamental".:laugh:
i have boned it a couple of times like that. the time i changed the brakes and forgot to take the chocks out of in front of the tires before i took it for a test drive. did the same thing one time i changed tranny fluid, darned car would not move and i thought i messed something up o No: or the time i took my old jeep wagoneer through a bunch of water and then parked it. over night the brake shoes froze solid and in the morning i couldnt move it :shock: . on the bright side i have a sturdy forehead from all the times i have slapped myself for being a yutzou: so rick, does mel ever mess up or are you the only genious in the family?:laugh:
