[tcb] Re: E-brake cables!!!!
- From: Brian Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 10:26:47 -0500
I'D ACTUALLY WIN SOMETHING THEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
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> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 08:25:37 -0700
> From: bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [tcb] Re: E-brake cables!!!!
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I have a suggestion for you to pass on to the Eureka show for next year: How
> about an award for "Most Crappy Rust Bucket To Still Be Driving" award.
>
> --- On Fri, 9/5/08, Denis Dodson wrote:
> From: Denis Dodson
> Subject: [tcb] E-brake cables!!!!
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 10:16 AM
>
> I had a panel of experts about a week ago go through Murray's brakes and when
> it came to installing the E-brake cables they were as stumped as I was. Stuff
> just didn't fit, so I finally called Wolfgang, where I bought the swing arm
> kit, and they told me that it required a '64 to '67 cable with an inch cut
> off the spring and a brass tube about 2" long. I would have died of old age
> before I would have figured out that combination. So, I just ordered them
> made up and they arrived yesterday. YEA!
>
> Here is where Sammie says, 'When you change one thing you have to change
> something else. It was designed as it was for a reason, by cracky!"
>
> I put Murray, no glass in the front, on his trailer and took him to BNNTA,
> where people were somewhat impressed that he was going to survive smashing in
> to a tree. There was an award for the bus most in need of restoration or
> repair. I figured that we were a shoe in, but he didn't even make the top 3.
> There were, at least, 3 other busses more in need of repair than the one who
> ran in to a tree! One guy told me that I didn't win because he was already
> being repaired, and another person said that Murray was in good hands and was
> clearly coming back. The others might be lost causes.
>
> When the accident happened the steering wheel was pushed to the left and
> through the windshield (but the Safaris were opened at the time). The
> stretcher guy brought it back to close to the original spot. At the end of
> the show I started him and was going to drive through the campgrounds to show
> people how good he still runs. The steering wheel was still a little to the
> left, so I kinda yanked it to the right, and the bus stopped. Just stopped. I
> looked under the ignition switch and found a bunch of disconnected wires. I
> went and got the trailer and folks helped push him on.
>
> Yesterday, I found 6 wires disconnected. Thank goodness Chuck and I had used
> all the proper wire colors and when I reconnected them Murray started right
> up.
>
> Lots of work to do to make T@P.
>
> It has rained here for three days. Today I can take Murray out and get back
> to work.
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