[DeTomaso] Thanks everyone for the encouragement Re: I blew up my car

[Christopher Kimball]

I can totally relate to your frustration, but hang in there.  A couple of days of decompression time is just what the doctor ordred.  That, and the best medicine of all--continued support from the Pantera community.

 

Sincerely,

 

Chris

 


 
> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 22:08:27 -0700
> From: asajay at asajay.com
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Thanks everyone for the encouragement Re: I blew up my car
> 
> Okay, the selling comment was to just "get it off my chest," I feel 
> much better now.
> 
> Please understand that I've been fighting that old cooling system 
> problem off and on for 10 years. First I find my fans are on 
> backwards. Then I find they are wired wrong and sucking are from the 
> front instead of pushing. I change radiator caps, bleed and burp the 
> system, replace the radiator, etc. Now, while it's down for other work, 
> I fix the radiator up with sucker fans, replace all the tubing and 
> hoses, find the heater nipple on the block rusted away, find the 
> radiator cap won't hold 9 lb, find the water neck screwed up, find holes 
> in the overflow tank, etc. I figure I got this nailed.
> 
> It was extremely frustrating to see it do that today as I'm running 
> around the car trying to figure out why, trying to figure out if coolant 
> is actually circulating through the radiator, or through the heater core 
> (which I was attempting to check just as the whole thing blew).
> 
> So I'll take a couple of days off to cool off, spend some time with the 
> family and attack it again this weekend, which by the way... is a three 
> dayer. :)
> 
> Asa Jay
> 
> Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
> 
> & Shelley Marie
> Spokane, WA
> 
> 1971 Mach I Mustang [ASA JAY]
> 1973 Pantera L 5533 [ASASCAT]
> 
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