[elky] Re: AAA card...or not
- From: STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:54:55 -0400 (EDT)
How much have you invested in this Camaro so far?
Smokey Mt Frank
In a message dated 7/21/2011 12:41:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Yesterday I did a buncha stuff on the Camaro, including running some
radiator flush chemical (sodium citrate) thru the cooling system, then
backflushing it and finding out that my manual fan switch has to be switched
on
AFTER starting the motor. I have no idea why, but it does.
So yesterday around dusk (9 pm or so) I took it out for a drive. Temp
never got over 160...no thermostat in it at the moment. But. (As usual,
there's a "but".) I probably drove it 3 times as long as I'd ever driven it
before and, again, it stayed nice and cool. I decided to turn back and head
home (I was almost to downtown Salt Lake City) and I made the mistake of
turning onto a street carrying traffic from the minor-league baseball game
that had just ended. Stop and go for at least 15 minutes...and then the
motor just shut off.
So I'm stuck in traffic with a dead motor and I turn the 4-way flashers
on. Then I twist the key and the motor starts. 90 seconds later, it dies
again and won't start. A coupla guys push me and the car into a parking lot
and I call AAA. Great. I can get it hauled back to my house.
After 30 minutes of waiting (traffic was still real heavy) and no tow
truck, I twist the key and the thing starts. So I let it run for 5 minutes,
shut it off for a few and try again. Starts right up. So I called AAA and
cancelled the towing request and drove the thing home. Again, engine
temperature never got over 160.
Diagnosis: Flaky ignition module and/or coil. So today I'll go get
another bottle of radiator flush, do it again and replace both the coil and
module. Then I'll drive it for a while with the flush chemical in it, then
bring it home (assuming that it doesn't die on me) backflush the cooling
system again and move on to the next problem, the lack of a horn (the fuse is
good.)
Anyway, I'm very glad I had the AAA card, even though I didn't need it in
the end. It sure helped with peace of mind, knowing that if I couldn't get
it running again, I'd have a way to get it home.
I can't remember if I sent this photo:
The new hood arrived yesterday and I brought it home from the trucking
depot (that's a story in itself) and it's ready to be bolted on as soon as I
remove the hood latch mechanism, which is what's keeping it from seating
correctly along the front edge.
Busy, busy, busy. :)
r
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