Carb flooded, hood cable...When it rains it pours

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Was cruising around a couple of days ago when the vette started stalling and died as I pulled into a parking lot....fuel leaking from the carb...flooded as can be.......AAA to the rescue.

Last night I tore the carb down, checked it out and put a new needle and seat in it, checked the float level (nitro filled echlin) put the AF meter on it and took it for a short drive...but did not open it up.

Today I take it out for a cruise and about 3 miles from home while accelerating the AF meter starts to fluctuate and fall...so I pull into a parking lot and it dies.....open the hood and fuel leaking from the accel pump hole...lower gasket, etc. Major flooding! WTF!!!!

So I call my son to bring the TTops since it looks like rain (only 3 miles from home)..I have the hood open and I'm putting the tops on and a weather front comes through...blows the hood forward and it slams down closed...no big deal except the hood cable SNAPS......then it starts raining.

AAA to the rescue.....again!

When it rains it pours....:rain::censored::hissyfit:



Wait just a second...not finished....my son who brought me the ttops in his cobalt says that the power steering light just came on as he was coming to get me and his car is hard to turn. The power steering system in the cobalt is electric assist pump(?) and as of May is being recalled. No friggin recall card in the mail....nothing!




WTF....I'm staying home before I take a baseball bat to one of these cars. :club::hunter: or shoot something.

Wife brought the beer, time for a break.
 
The recall stuff is slow to get to you. The manufacturers do not care.

It's just a bad day. Let it pass. Tomorrow will bring a new perspective.

The beer will help too.....

:beer:
 
Join the club, if not one freeking thing or another, us old car/hotrodders would die of boredom......:shocking::p

so phuckit....:beer::beer: and come out with :hunter: blazing soon enough....

:club::beer::beer:
 
You're not the only one having a bad day (or two). I'm currently in Dallas- there's a little road repair project going just down the block from this hotel. Yesterday about 8 am they hit a gas main with a backhoe. Today, they got a big water main- water was blasting a good 100 feet in the air and about 12" deep running down the street. I'm just waiting to see tomorrow's show.

:hunter:
 
TimAT said:
You're not the only one having a bad day (or two). I'm currently in Dallas- there's a little road repair project going just down the block from this hotel. Yesterday about 8 am they hit a gas main with a backhoe. Today, they got a big water main- water was blasting a good 100 feet in the air and about 12" deep running down the street. I'm just waiting to see tomorrow's show.

:hunter:
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:shocking: 40KV underground 'lectrickery line??'....

anyone there hear of 'Miss Utility' or is she on drugs???

:shocking::p:beer::beer::beer:
 
TimAT said:
You're not the only one having a bad day (or two). I'm currently in Dallas- there's a little road repair project going just down the block from this hotel. Yesterday about 8 am they hit a gas main with a backhoe. Today, they got a big water main- water was blasting a good 100 feet in the air and about 12" deep running down the street. I'm just waiting to see tomorrow's show.

:hunter:
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Where are you in Dallas? I'm probably going to be over in that area on Friday (popping in on my painter to see if he is finally going to paint my hood).
 
TimAT said:
mrvette said:
:shocking: 40KV underground 'lectrickery line??'....

anyone there hear of 'Miss Utility' or is she on drugs???

:shocking::p:beer::beer::beer:
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Either that or a sewer- about all that's left.:rofl:
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Tim, I just spent the last 3 and a half months in Ft. Worth, last week is the first full week home. If you go back soon, you have to check out Chef Point restaruant (google it, it's real!). It's at a Conoco gas station and is one of the best restaruants I've ever been to, and like you traveling I go to alot of them!!!! This place was on Diners, Drive Ins and Dives, and it's great! Also, the Cavanaugh(?) air museum is pretty good to if you have time and haven't been there, it's in Addison...
 
mrvette said:
TimAT said:
mrvette said:
:shocking: 40KV underground 'lectrickery line??'....

anyone there hear of 'Miss Utility' or is she on drugs???

:shocking::p:beer::beer::beer:
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Either that or a sewer- about all that's left.:rofl:
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:stirpot::rofl::bullshit:!! the damn water main washed THAT out.....:hunter::rofl::rofl:
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Ok...I'll admit that my fuel wasn't spewing 100' in the air....:smash:

About 10 years ago, a backhoe cut through the power cable into our inudtrial/office park in the middle of July. July in NC can be a friggin oven. By 2:00pm companies were letting people go home due to no computers, lights, AC.....lots of lost productivity that day.

Just wondering..if a backhoe cuts a major power line, isn't there the possibility that the operator could be electrocuted?
 
Ya, that happens, a lot more frequent with cranes etc.
That's why there are always 5 other guys standing around watching the guy on the hoe, they're really there to see what he cuts thru.:banghead:

The state of Florida has this call before you dig program, you give them the location ,permit # etc and they send out all the applicable utilities to locate and mark their lines. Works pretty well saves a lot of calling on your part.

It's against the law to dig without calling them, even in your own back yard and the depth limit is something really stupid like 8".
 
010752 said:
Ya, that happens, a lot more frequent with cranes etc.
That's why there are always 5 other guys standing around watching the guy on the hoe, they're really there to see what he cuts thru.:banghead:

The state of Florida has this call before you dig program, you give them the location ,permit # etc and they send out all the applicable utilities to locate and mark their lines. Works pretty well saves a lot of calling on your part.

It's against the law to dig without calling them, even in your own back yard and the depth limit is something really stupid like 8".
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:shocking: that was just about the depth of that underground phone line coming into the back of my house...only like 8"....easement down the back fence line for the major trunk, branches into the backsides of the houses...

overhead power on poles out front, poles across the street from me....

:shocking::shocking::shocking: totally FRIED that phone line both pairs....

so ATT been outta this house for some 11 years now....

:shocking::shocking::amused:
 
mrvette said:
010752 said:
Ya, that happens, a lot more frequent with cranes etc.
That's why there are always 5 other guys standing around watching the guy on the hoe, they're really there to see what he cuts thru.:banghead:

The state of Florida has this call before you dig program, you give them the location ,permit # etc and they send out all the applicable utilities to locate and mark their lines. Works pretty well saves a lot of calling on your part.

It's against the law to dig without calling them, even in your own back yard and the depth limit is something really stupid like 8".
Click to expand...

:shocking: that was just about the depth of that underground phone line coming into the back of my house...only like 8"....easement down the back fence line for the major trunk, branches into the backsides of the houses...

overhead power on poles out front, poles across the street from me....

:shocking::shocking::shocking: totally FRIED that phone line both pairs....

so ATT been outta this house for some 11 years now....

:shocking::shocking::amused:
Click to expand...

When I first moved to NC, I needed to plant some trees on my lot...front was totally cleared. Called the utility # and they came out and marked all kinds of pretty colored lines....except the phone line. You know it...I cut right through it. While patching it, I got zapped....not a lot of current, but enough to let you know NOT to do it again.:shocking:
 
SmokinBBC said:
mrvette said:
010752 said:
Ya, that happens, a lot more frequent with cranes etc.
That's why there are always 5 other guys standing around watching the guy on the hoe, they're really there to see what he cuts thru.:banghead:

The state of Florida has this call before you dig program, you give them the location ,permit # etc and they send out all the applicable utilities to locate and mark their lines. Works pretty well saves a lot of calling on your part.

It's against the law to dig without calling them, even in your own back yard and the depth limit is something really stupid like 8".
Click to expand...

:shocking: that was just about the depth of that underground phone line coming into the back of my house...only like 8"....easement down the back fence line for the major trunk, branches into the backsides of the houses...

overhead power on poles out front, poles across the street from me....

:shocking::shocking::shocking: totally FRIED that phone line both pairs....

so ATT been outta this house for some 11 years now....

:shocking::shocking::amused:
Click to expand...

When I first moved to NC, I needed to plant some trees on my lot...front was totally cleared. Called the utility # and they came out and marked all kinds of pretty colored lines....except the phone line. You know it...I cut right through it. While patching it, I got zapped....not a lot of current, but enough to let you know NOT to do it again.:shocking:
Click to expand...

:lol::lol::trumpet: Oh yeh, more voltage on a standard phone line than people think, because the lines are SO long....I think it's 80 VDC, and ring voltage is of course AC, and I think higher than that even....
 
DeeVeeEight said:
The recall stuff is slow to get to you. The manufacturers do not care.

It's just a bad day. Let it pass. Tomorrow will bring a new perspective.

The beer will help too.....

:beer:
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Called the dealer about the power steering problem. They knew right away it is a recall item. It takes 7 to 10 days to get the pump. They must be doing fix as fail because obviously not enough pumps in the chain.
 
mrvette said:
SmokinBBC said:
mrvette said:
010752 said:
Ya, that happens, a lot more frequent with cranes etc.
That's why there are always 5 other guys standing around watching the guy on the hoe, they're really there to see what he cuts thru.:banghead:

The state of Florida has this call before you dig program, you give them the location ,permit # etc and they send out all the applicable utilities to locate and mark their lines. Works pretty well saves a lot of calling on your part.

It's against the law to dig without calling them, even in your own back yard and the depth limit is something really stupid like 8".
Click to expand...

:shocking: that was just about the depth of that underground phone line coming into the back of my house...only like 8"....easement down the back fence line for the major trunk, branches into the backsides of the houses...

overhead power on poles out front, poles across the street from me....

:shocking::shocking::shocking: totally FRIED that phone line both pairs....

so ATT been outta this house for some 11 years now....

:shocking::shocking::amused:
Click to expand...

When I first moved to NC, I needed to plant some trees on my lot...front was totally cleared. Called the utility # and they came out and marked all kinds of pretty colored lines....except the phone line. You know it...I cut right through it. While patching it, I got zapped....not a lot of current, but enough to let you know NOT to do it again.:shocking:
Click to expand...

:lol::lol::trumpet: Oh yeh, more voltage on a standard phone line than people think, because the lines are SO long....I think it's 80 VDC, and ring voltage is of course AC, and I think higher than that even....
Click to expand...

Voice is 48 V D/C, ring is 76V A/C. They can really hurt when they are ringing.
They also ring to ground, and when you lose the ground, they won't ring.:shocking:
 
SmokinBBC said:
mrvette said:
TimAT said:
mrvette said:
:shocking: 40KV underground 'lectrickery line??'....

anyone there hear of 'Miss Utility' or is she on drugs???

:shocking::p:beer::beer::beer:
Click to expand...

Either that or a sewer- about all that's left.:rofl:
Click to expand...

:stirpot::rofl::bullshit:!! the damn water main washed THAT out.....:hunter::rofl::rofl:
Click to expand...


Ok...I'll admit that my fuel wasn't spewing 100' in the air....:smash:

About 10 years ago, a backhoe cut through the power cable into our inudtrial/office park in the middle of July. July in NC can be a friggin oven. By 2:00pm companies were letting people go home due to no computers, lights, AC.....lots of lost productivity that day.

Just wondering..if a backhoe cuts a major power line, isn't there the possibility that the operator could be electrocuted?
Click to expand...

Yes. They can.Usually not, if he stays on the rubber wheels, and doesn't touch the earth. The fireball is what burns em. Gas lines can be worse if they ignite.
 
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