Are you serious? Ya know, I suspect a trap for the unwary - "I was laying
through the back window, when someone lifted my car up and now it won't run
right, but turning it on and off fixed it". :)
I guess it's gotta be true - who could make that up? On reflection, I
suppose
it's really not atypcial of some of my own LBC expereinces. :)
Anyway, my "unencumbered by the thought process" guess would be: any chance
the tilting of the car caused the gas to run out of the float chamber and
flood the
engine? I think that you're obligated to recreate the exact conditions
(including laying upside in the car in the rain) and see if it re-occurs. Can
we expect a full
report on our desks in the morning? :)
Cheers!
-Greg
In a message dated 3/25/99 8:13:14 PM EST, SpitfireKP@aol.com writes:
> Well, since I am the one suffering from the problem of getting into a Spit
w/
>
> broken door handles, I will share my method. First, you must know that the
> doors work fine from the inside and that I have a 74 Spit. My method is to
> first unbutton the buttons around the side which the zipper on the rear
> window
> is closest to. Then I reach over and slide the zipper around from the
> outside.
> From there, I can lay on my belly on the back of the car and reach in to
> pull
> the door handle. The other day it was raining (great) and I didn't want to
> lay
> on my wet car, so I just jumped in the rear window (perhaps being a limber
> 18
> year old allowed for this) and leaned back to grab the door latch. I felt
> goofy climbing out of my car upside down, but I got the door open. Perhaps
> the
> worst part was that while I was upside down in my car, I hear someone walk
> up
> to it and say "Gee, I wonder how little this car actually weighs." They
> proceeded to pick the front end up with me in it. This leads to my next
> question. After that, I turned the car on, and it was not running well at
> all.
> It sounded like a broken down Beetle, and would not rev above 2000 RPM. In
a
> last ditch effort to repair it, I turned it off and back on again. It
worked
> like a charm. But one thing that I have learned about LBCs is that problems
> never disappear, at least not forever. Any ideas?
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