Mike,
Boy, you're having a real crappy week.... But thanx for making my week look
so much better.... ;-)
Mike
'78 Midget (My Little Money Pit)
'87 300ZX (Just the z....)
miker15@juno.com wrote:
>
> You know theres a shoe waiting to drop when there hasn't been one for a
> while....
> On Sunday i took the 69 for a drive in the lovely autumn weather -it ran
> fine until the last couple of miles when the alternator light started to
> glow intermttently - but only at higher speeds, i thought it might be
> the fan belt but this seems fine and the problem is not constant - just
> occasional, and so far only above 2500 rpm - any thoughts?
> Then when i got home to put the car to bed i saw that it was pouring oil
> out of somewhere while the engine was running - it stopped when switched
> off - since it was getting dark i havnt had an opportunity to look at
> what it is - watch this space...
>
> THEN....
>
> Wifes 93 Jeep decided to develop a power loss coupled with a nasty clunk
> from the front end - i have ZERO idea how this car works so its off to
> the shop tomorrow - jeep dealerships got their best ideas from Mercedes -
> i.e.tell them it needs EVERYTHING and NOW and make sure the bill is over
> 1500!....
> Resigned to this i left her the parts-hauler escort and went off to work
> in the GT....
> Ran fine (actually stupendously!!!!) until this evening when it started
> to die at idle ..... so as we all know, ill be checking a number of
> things next weekend!!
>
> The way this is going, the Riley will be the commuter car by weeks end -
> it will certainly be doing duty tomorrow!!
>
> mike robson
> 69 roadster
> 70 BGT
> 53 Riley
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