[tcb] Re: Generator pulley?

  • From: Mike Hayes <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:26:52 -0500

I had one brake on the Thing and turned the idle screw up to about 2500 rpm and dove it home. I was in town about 10 at night and the most I had to do was 35mph which I could do easy in forth at 2500 rpm.




Neil wrote:
Been there and done that!  My Fiat X19 busted the cable...I took the top off, 
ran a cord from the carb to me in the drivers seat...got me home, but wuz HELL 
in Dallas traffic.

--- On Mon, 8/24/09, sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: Generator pulley?
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 9:30 PM
One of
the mechs at Kenny Hill in Austin told me that they had a
little old lady customer come in one day with her
accelerator cable broken.  She had taken a piece of
clothes line and run it down the side of the car and into
the engine compartment and drove the car from her house
to Kenny Hill to get it repaired by pulling on the
clothes line through the window with one hand for throttle
control while driving with the other hand.

--- On Mon, 8/24/09, Neil
<nbmdude@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


From: Neil <nbmdude@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: Generator pulley?
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 9:08 PM


I saw a guy 'makeshift' an
accelerator cable out of a wire from an electric fence....it
was funny watchin' him get shocked.

--- On Mon, 8/24/09, sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: Generator pulley?
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 3:37 PM
Carry
a couple of spares and stay out of Muskogee.

--- On Mon, 8/24/09, singlecabboy
<sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From: singlecabboy <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: Generator pulley?
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 1:29 PM


Carry a extra throttle cable.I broke
one two years in a row in Muskogee OK. I figured
i'd
either carry a spare or change routes to Eureka
Springs.I
think Dan broke one somewhere and it helped him out.
Paul Smith
  2009 Zone Tour 1999-2009 ,10 years of Trucking
H.B.B
T.C.B Transporters at the Point 6 October 9,10,and
11,
2009"Love all,trust a few,Do wrong to none"


--- On Mon, 8/24/09, sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: Generator pulley?
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 9:15 AM
Look
for some originals at the next swap meet.

--- On Mon, 8/24/09, Mike
 Hayes
<mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
From: Mike Hayes <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [tcb] Re: Generator pulley?
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, August 24, 2009, 8:22 AM


The new ones I've been getting
are spot welded to the center hub part
  with 3 welds and they break those welds.
sammie smith wrote:
Reasonably so. Check it occasionally and it
will
usually give you fair
 > > warning before catastrophic failure.  I
have
never had one crater on
me on the road.  Have usually noticed
deterioration before failure.
--- On *Sun, 8/23/09, atx /<atx_bus@xxxxxxxxx>/*
wrote:
     From: atx <atx_bus@xxxxxxxxx>
     Subject: [tcb] Re:
Generator
pulley?
     To: "tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx"
<tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
     Date: Sunday, August
23,
2009,
10:47 PM
     Thanks for the
lists, a
pulley
wasn't on mine.  It will be now.
     Also, I remember
Dan
having a
good list.
     So it's an easy
enough
fix, and worth carrying a spare, but is
     failure of this
part
common?
     Jeff

     sent via iPhone


     On Aug
 23,
  2009, at 9:26 PM,
Mike Hayes <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
     <http://us.mc833.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>>
     wrote:

     Wow such a small
list.
:-)    I'm sure there is something
I
forgot.
     I carry that
and....
     points
     cap
     rotor
     condenser
     1 set
 plugs
     1 long plug wire
     1 engine
  gasket kit
     1 set of wheel
bearings
     nuts, bolts, washers
and
cotter pins
     a well used but
good
  distributer
     new fuel pump
     clutch cable
     throttle cable
     old but good coil
     bulbs, fuses extra
wire
     high temp silicon
     jb weld
     duck tape
     zip tie's
     Flash light
 >     small floor jack
     4 way lug wrench
     couple of fuel
filters
     couple feet
  of fuel line
     5 quart jug of oil
     brake fluid
     Toolbox





     Alma Jo Barrera
wrote:
     There is an
unspoken
  emergency kit that should be carried with
you
     at all times.

     1. fire
extinguisher
     2. belt
     3. pulley ( yes I
have
had
 one
just shatter)
     4. shims
     5. woodruff key
     6. fire
extinguisher
(again)
     7. accelerator
cable
     8. clutch cable
     9. flares
     10. cold beer

     Other Vokies can
probably
add
to the list, I am a fairly newbie
     and still don't
know
all
the ins and outs.
     I was told that as
soon
as the
belt brakes or pulley goes out to
     pull over..no ands,
if or
buts
about
 it.
  So I have just made that
     my rule of thumb.

     Alma jo












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