[DeTomaso] Header mess

Brent Stewart bjbstewart at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 7 12:59:40 EDT 2009


I guess if it had to happen, better BEFORE Reno than at Reno...

Yesterday was the PCNC Tech Session, primarily for getting everyone inspected and signed off for Reno and the track event (BTW, thanks Chuck for finding that some paint was flaking off my dip stick tube).  It was a fun day, well attended and the usual great food and drink.  Well done Richard...

On the way home from the session my engine suddenly became quite loud - er, louder than normal :-) Upon immediately pulling over I found my muffler hanging from the rear bracket, disconnected at the collector.  I was upset with myself for having let the bolts come undone without me having noticed, I'm generally pretty on top of checking things like that. With further inspection i realized that, indeed, the bolts were nice and tight...the flange had BROKEN OFF the collector! 

So, wish me luck in getting the flange welded back before the Wednesday trip up!!!

brent
maybe 4328 in Reno



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