Have You Ever Broken Down?

[lowfutura]

Back in the early 80's we were cruising in my mates XY fairmont, we headed out west from Cairns for a weekend of highspeed driving.

On the second day on the way home about 200km west of Kidston on an obscure road, with no petrol station to be found, we ran out of fuel. No problem just call the RACQ on the mobile (except mobile phones haven't been invented yet).

We walked for miles looking for a house, with no luck at all, we headed back to the car.

After one and a half days with no passing traffic; and out of hot beer, but a boot full of tools and plenty of thinking time.

'The light bulb came on".

We emptied the boot accessed the petrol tank fuel pick up, bent the pipe down until it hit the bottom of the tank, thus were able to scavange the remaining fuel in the tank.

Drove about 20 km to the nearest house; and the rest is HISTORY....

Have you had the worst BREAKDOWN ever.

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[Guest Spinifex]

My WB ute.. NEVER! EVER! buy a white Expensive Daewoo ute, I mean don`t buy a holden, period... but white Expensive Daewoo utes are the unluckiest car on the road. I can give about 45 mins of anecdotes that prove it.

But yeah, I broke down in that pus bucket more times, I was on my way home to Grantham where I lived at the time, booooorrrrrrr, fire goes out, I knew sinstinctively what it was, distributor cap off, turn key, rotor dun move, stripped a timing gear, tow home.

I went to a local mechanic, swapped my car and gear for one out of a 202 he was ending to be recon`d. I was cheap then..

2 weeks later, I was hurrying home one night, I sat on about 130 kph a bit really 120 most of the way, it suffered that really bad electrical problem red motors had, a conrod came through the side of the motor and knocked the alternator of onto the road.

I bludged an old 173 off a mate, stuck it in. It wouldn`t have pulled the skin off a rice pudding.

2 weeks later with my CR250 on board headed to Tivoli for practice, booorrrrr, another stripped timing gear on the opposite side of the highway not 100 yards from where I`d done the other one.

Brand 202 reco engine fitted, now I pimped it up a bit under the bonnet, bit of chrome and paint., I had a choice of 2 fans, I went with the nicer looking one, no need to paint.

2 weeks later just out of Grantham, BANG!!!! wtf was that?? a tyre tread? nuh.. Did I hit summin?? OI! where`s me temperature needle!!!

Coast to a halt, bonnet up.. Well, there was a fan there, and a water pump from memory.. Oh look, there they are up near the firewall.

A blade had come off the fan, mass imbalance and it just augered the guts out of the water pump.

I towed that sh!box home more times than I can remember, I put atleast 5 radiators in it for various reasons, Red Devil used to send me a calandar for years..

I could list more, but you get the idea.

[typhoon_freak]

my old ute (bf xr6) we were going along the highway towards the coast on australia day.. when my driving belt snapped and blew an engine gasket.. rang up racq, 5 hour wait! it was 11am and was one of the hottest days I can remember.. but when it came round to 4.30pm we finally got a tow truck

[lowfutura]

The RACQ must have been in the area for them to race out to you that quickly, LOL.

[typhoon_freak]

lol and all we had was a surfboard and a refidex to keep us occupied

[lowfutura]

We used to go and buy HR's and EH's from the wreckers with 1 months Rego left, for $50- $60 Bucks and go out chock full of mates and give them an absolute flogging.

We were in an HR one day doing roll backs, in the middle of no-where, when the engine snapped the rubber engine mounts and jumped over onto a 45 degree angle (it looked like a slant 6); but the carby linkages no longer reached so we had no exelerator.

No problem, we lifted the bonnet, Thommo sat on the wheel well and operated the carby by hand and I drove home with half my body out the drivers side window (to see past the bonnet).

[Ghosti]

Yeah, one time when my dog died.

But I survived and got a new dog.

Seriously though;

VS Uterus, battling through 7am traffic on the Monash freeway, on my way to college.

As we're merging from the South Gippy HWY onto the FWY, a truck just ahead of me loses something plastic, possibly a fruit crate or some sh*t.

No time to avoid it, cars everywhere. Anyway long story short, a piece of this plastic pops (!) my already bald rear left tyre with a big bang.

So I pull over onto the shoulder, no biggy.

Pull out the jack (which had never been used) and get to jackin' it up.

About halfway through the windup, the piece of sh*t, pressed tin jack starts to buckle in the middle.

I paused for a second and considered winding it back down to reseat the jack, hoping it would hold but then just thought "f*ck it".

Got the car up high enough to get the wheel off but the jack was looking REALLY bad, banana style.

As I'm getting the spare out of the tray, the jack gives way and turns into a pretzel.

So the brake disc is sitting on the tar, the car looks like a f*ckin' lowrider, all dumped at one corner and now I'm boned.

So I sat on the wheel I took off and chain smoked about 4 ciggies while cars drove past tooting their horns at me. A friend of my g/f's also drove past and messaged me saying "lol I think I juss seen u on da monash lol"... thanks for that you stupid C***!

Called RACV and they told me they couldn't help because I was too close to the merge of 2 major HWY/FWYs and it wasn't safe to stop there. But I eventually convinced them to come.

They told me they'd tow it! With 3 wheels?!

Anyway an RACV guy rocked up and after a while I ended up convincing him not to be a pussy and he let me use his jack to change it myself...

Member not a number?? Yeah right.

[Dagabond]

Member not a number?? Yeah right.

He was probably worried about not becoming a number himself....a number on the statistics list....

[Ghosti]

He was probably worried about not becoming a number himself....a number on the statistics list....

Probably sounds like that by reading my post but I was a loooong way off the edge of the FWY with ample shoulder room and it was the left rear so we weren't on the road-side of the car.

Oh and it was 8ish by the time he got there and as usual the Monash Carpark was running at snails pace.

I've noticed that RACV dudes are usually kind of... "special" and this guy was no exception.

[straughsberry]

You mean "thpethel"?