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Jul 23
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, 2004 at 6:13pm
RichieB16
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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.
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Jul 24
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Ah, that blows.
Hope you fix it real soon.
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Jul 24
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Bad luck Richie, hope you're back on the road soon
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Jul 26
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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...
Those guys were probably honored to be pushing your Camaro...
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Jul 26
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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.
What kind of a Mustang do you have?
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Jul 26
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Your post brought back happy memories of the '67 Camaro I got when my dad bought an '70 RS ..
Of coures, by then my older brother had '69 Z-28 with a shoe-horned 350 ( he blew the 302)
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Jul 26
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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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68 Coupe w/ a 289. It's my baby...
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Jul 30
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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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