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Jul 23rd, 2004 at 6:13pm

RichieB16   Offline
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Well, yesterday I had a somewhat interesting day.  My sister plays water polo for her hs (where I used to go) and they have weight-lifting sessions during the summer-since I am a former player and know everyone-I have been invited to come.  Yesterday we were going over there (to the hs) and decided to take my '69 Camaro since nobody on the team had seen it.  I get about 3 blocks from the school (I had driven about 5 miles) when I feel the car start to run funny.  Suddenly, I start getting some white smoke in the cab-coming from the dash (plastic-smelling smoke).  I pulled over to discover that I had burnt up a fusible-link due to a short somewhere in the main wiring harness.  Long story short, most of the weight-lifting plans for the team was cancelled, instead they got their workout by pushing my car down the road and into the high school parking lot (then we all lifted for a little while). 

In the end, I had to have the car towed back to my house.  I need to find the short in the system, fix it, and then splice in a new fusible-link (basically a wire with an internal non-removable fuse, desiged to melt in half in the event of a short).  Unfortunately, there are a ton of wires I need to check to find the problem and in all likelyhood I'll miss a car show this weekend as a result.  Sad
 
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Reply #1 - Jul 24th, 2004 at 2:24am
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Ah, that blows.
Hope you fix it real soon.
 
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Reply #2 - Jul 24th, 2004 at 2:40am

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Bad luck Richie, hope you're back on the road soon Wink
 

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Reply #3 - Jul 26th, 2004 at 8:15pm

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All part of the joy of owning a vintage car.  I have a turn signal; on my Mustang that hasn't worked for years and I replaced just about everything I can think of to get it to work...   Roll Eyes  Those guys were probably honored to be pushing your Camaro...  Smiley
 

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Reply #4 - Jul 26th, 2004 at 10:57pm

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Yeah, its all part of the deal of having an old car.  It was more imbarrissing than anything-but thats OK.   Wink

What kind of a Mustang do you have?
 
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Reply #5 - Jul 26th, 2004 at 11:03pm

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Your post brought back happy memories of the '67 Camaro I got when my dad bought an '70 RS .. Smiley

Of coures, by then my older brother had '69 Z-28 with a shoe-horned 350 ( he blew the 302)
 

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Reply #6 - Jul 26th, 2004 at 11:05pm

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Wow, I '69 Z-28-that would be an awesome car (too bad for the 302, they were great engines). 

Was the '67 just a coupe or what (do you remember)?
 
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Reply #7 - Jul 30th, 2004 at 8:20pm

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68 Coupe w/ a 289.  It's my baby...  Grin
 

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Reply #8 - Jul 30th, 2004 at 9:34pm

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Sweet, I like the '68 model.  Is the engine pretty built up is or is it stock?
 
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