<VV> Getting un-stranded

[shortle]

Hey Smitty put me down for 1 of your books please. I just want you and Helen to autograph it for me. Thanks.
Timothy Shortle in Durango Colorado 81301
No snow here since this morning


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>From: Smitty via VirtualVairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
>Sent: Nov 3, 2014 2:26 PM
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>Subject: <VV> Getting un-stranded
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>Ron Sez;    I refuse to believe that anyone broke a crankshaft a hundred 
>miles from the
>nearest habitation, parked on a dirt road, dropped the engine, split the
>block, installed a spare shaft which they just happened to have, reinstalled
>the engine without jacks, etc. and drove merrily off before breakfast.  No,
>there's too many bottles of Jack Daniels in that scenario.
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>Smitty Says;  I suppose there has to be somebody out there that couldn't 
>recognize a little "tongue in cheek" when I mentioned making minor 
>adjustments to come home on a broken crankshaft.  Actually it wasn't quite 
>as easy as Ron made it sound either.  We were skipping down the road and the 
>fan belt came off.  Nobody ever does that flying straight and level so I was 
>a little perplexed.  I put the belt back on and got about a hundred yards 
>and it came off again.  This time I had the Boss start the car while I 
>watched it.  The belt came off and I noticed the damper wobbling.  Soon as I 
>grabbed ahold of it I knew the crank was broken.  I leaned against the 
>fender and gazed across 50 miles of wind.  That's all there was to see out 
>there, and considered my options.  My insurance covered 30 miles towing or 
>to the nearest point of repair.  As I said before.  No cell phone so the 
>towing was useless.  Boss came out of the camper and handed me a cold drink 
>and said, have you figured out anything yet.  I said, not this time.  I 
>don't see any daylight at all.  I said get back in the car, we are going 
>down the road a ways.  She said, to where.  I said, thataway.  The camper 
>wasn't helping the engine heat any but I drove it till the oil and CHT got 
>high and then shut it down.  Actually those long prarie hills helped because 
>I could climb one and then shut it off for the downhill.  Without the 
>manifold covers the temps dropped pretty quickly.  After 13 miles we came to 
>a crossroad.  There was a tourist attraction named 1880 Town there.  I paid 
>the owner for some phone time and found that there was a U Haul at the next 
>town about 40 miles away.  I got them to promise that they would hold a 24 
>ft van for me.  We toured the town and enjoyed it very much.  Next day I 
>hitched a ride to the next town and rented the truck.  Realized the tin 
>wheel well covers inside would not support the Corvair, so I found a 
>building supply.  I bought a saw, a hammer, nails, and a half ton of 2X12s. 
>Drove back to the 1880 Town and proceeded to build a sturdy pair of rails to 
>bridge the wheel wells in the truck.  The owner says, how you going to get 
>the car in there?  I said, I am going to back the truck up to that berm over 
>there and build a truss bridge into it from the berm.  He said you are a 
>determined cuss aren't you.  Then he hollers, RJ, get the tilt bed and put 
>Mr Smiths car on it so he can drive into the truck..  I always carry a nylon 
>strap that is about 60 ft long made of nylon about an inch wide.  I used 
>that to lace the car into the center of the truck utilizing the built in 
>cleats around the floor.  From there it was a piece of cake.  Put the camper 
>on the truck, Got to KC where my sister lives and dumped the car in her 
>driveway.  Called some of my HACOA friends and gathered parts and rebuilt 
>the engine using my Corvair jack to raise and lower the engine.  The crank 
>was broken between #2 and #3.
>Sorry for wasting so much space, but on This forum if you don't cover every 
>little detail somebody will leap on it like a hen on a june bug and say you 
>are full of crap.  The point I initially made was, when I leave home in a 
>Corvair, I come home in the same Corvair.
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