[DeTomaso] Here's a weird one
Bill Lewis
lotus0005 at hotmail.com
Fri Nov 4 23:53:36 EDT 2011
And, here's my weird one: we were coming home tonight in my "other-than-Pantera" sports car, which sits real low. Coming down a country road, I saw smear marks in the road ahead. If I were younger, I would have reacted and swerved or something. It was some large animal, either a large black dog, or a small calf that had been run over several times and was in the center of my lane - I ran over it. It snagged several places on the bottom as the car bumped and passed over it. About a mile down the road, I started smelling something. It was meat cooking - actually didn't smell bad. Yuccckkkk! So, when we got home, I parked it on a rise in the parking area, and looked under it with a flashlight. Blood was smeared all the way down. and meat was hanging down. I washed and washed. I'll do a better survey in the morning. ----Bill
> From: wkooiman at earthlink.net
> To: detomaso at realbig.com
> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 21:31:53 -0500
> Subject: [DeTomaso] Here's a weird one
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> My wife called me last week while she was on the way to work.
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> She said she heard a crunch, the power steering went out, and all of the
> lights on the dash came on. I'm assuming it was more than just the check
> engine light, but I didn't see it so I can only go by what she described.
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> The same thing happened to me in her car 2 years ago. The water pump
> cracked badly around the bearing. It dumped water on the ground, plus it
> made the serpentine belt pop off. $800 later ('00 Boxster-S), and it was
> all better. I figured the same thing had happened this time.
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> Not so. This time it was a failed alternator clutch. Yep - not a typo.
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> Her car has a sprag clutch on the alternator pulley. A sprag is a one way
> ratcheting bearing. It free wheels in one direction only. The clutch had
> been locked up for who knows how long. The failure was the inner shaft
> walking off of the sprag. It eventually walked enough to make the
> serpentine belt pop off.
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> It's a good thing it wasn't the water pump. I wasn't looking forward to
> another $800 repair bill. This time it was only $440 - not counting the tow
> truck.
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> I'm going to try to talk her into a Mangusta.
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