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Re: Bad news

To: kwhcpa@addler.net, datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Bad news
From: "sidney raper" <spl310@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 13:10:39 EDT
Kyle,

Bummer!!  I hope that you just killed the distributor or something that is 
peripheral.

Best of luck,

Sid


>From: "Kyle Hagemann" <kwhcpa@addler.net>
>Reply-To: "Kyle Hagemann" <kwhcpa@addler.net>
>To: "311" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Bad news
>Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 08:52:03 -0700
>
>I must have anti-roadster karma or something.
>
>Were I a less restrained individual I'd spout off an endless
>stream of expletives.  Wouldn't help matters, but I might feel
>better....
>
>Last May (99) I broke my trans.  In December, I broke it for
>real, and had to park the car.  Last Sunday, I got it back on
>the road.  Realized I put the shifter-select springs in the
>wrong sides.  Who cares, the sun's out, keep driving!  After
>two days of fun in the sun, I swapped the springs back, and
>went for a road test.  Much better.  Feeling bold, I ran the
>car up to 6,000RPM, and hit the perpetual wall that lives there.
>
>Gave it a little more gas, a little less, trying to get it past
>6K.......then it happened.  Something came apart, big time.
>
>Barely fired on one cylinder, shaking like mad, backfiring and
>making a ping-type noise.  Sigh.
>
>I'm guessing I lunched a valve (or four or five;-) or maybe the
>Evil L dropped down and jumped the chain.  The head will come
>off this weekend.  Sigh, again.
>
>Something to be said for getting 2 days of driving my
>2000 in 2000.  Something sad.
>
>        ____  Kyle Hagemann, Born-Again Grease Monkey From Beyond
>    _.;(____\____    72 240Z, L28/E88/SU, 5sp, all poly - Z Beast
>   |  _ |   |  _'@`, 71 PL521, LZ22, SUs, 2" exh, 4spd - The Hulk
>   `-(#)------(#)-<  69 2000, Lousy rackin' frackin' U20 - Broken
>------------------- 84 Maxima, Tokicos/ST springs, 238K - Mr Max
>http://www.sonic.net/~kyle  http://www.sonic.net/~kyle/cars.html
>

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