[DeTomaso] Here's a weird one

[Rob Dumoulin]

Bill, dude. That story was one that may have been left untold. Kinda made
me hungry though.
On Nov 4, 2011 11:58 PM, "Bill Lewis" <lotus0005 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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
> >
> > My wife called me last week while she was on the way to work.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Not so.  This time it was a failed alternator clutch.  Yep - not a typo.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm going to try to talk her into a Mangusta.
> >
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