<VV> Not Getting Stranded

[Jay Maechtlen]

ok, what do you "adjust" to let you drive with a  broken crank?
I'm guessing it broke so that the two ends still kind of rotated 
together, just made nasty noises?



On 11/2/2014 9:21 PM, Smitty via VirtualVairs wrote:
> Smitty says;   Ron I'll see your cam gear and raise you a two piece 
> crankshaft in the middle of south Dakota.  And yes I drove the car 
> back to Virginia after making a couple of minor adjustments.  No tow 
> companies were involved.  When something breaks all you got to do is 
> fix it.  This was also before cell phones.
>
>
> I defy anyone to not be stranded when the cam gear goes when you are on a
> remote two lane highway beyond sight of any habitation.  It happened 
> to me
> trying to come home from the Lake Tahoe National.  I didn't even have 
> a cell
> phone back then and one wouldn't have worked there anyways.
>
> Ron Hinz, was in my '63 Rampside.
>
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Jay Maechtlen SoCal '61 2-dr modified w/fiberglass skin, transverse 3.8 
Buick V6 TH440T4 trans

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