[V8] Road debris

Wed Sep 7 10:43:52 EDT 2005

Sorry Jeremy, that sucks big time!!!

My friend has had two bad cases - one pothole that
bent two rims on his 95 aero, and a tire carcass that
he was unable to avoid and popped his fender out of
its socket.  Both cases, the state said "not liable"
for them.  In Massachusetts, the state actually
granted itself immunity from retribution for damage
caused by its roads.  How convenient.   I wish you
better luck.

Carter

Message: 10
Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:33:39 -0700
From: Jeremy Ward <jward.v8 at gmail.com>
Subject: [V8] Has this ever happened to you? Road
Debris
To: v8newlist <v8 at audifans.com>
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So I was driving to work this week, and there was a
mini-manhole cover
sitting up in the road.  (You know, the small 6" ones
that cover your
water shut-off valve for your house out in the middle
of the street.) 
It was sitting vertically in its flange instead of
flush,
horizontally.

One road that I take to work is under construction and
they have big
orange barrels and cones setup to tell you where to
drive on the fresh
asphalt.  I see this round metal plate (like a
giant-sized ashtray)
sticking up out of the road vertically; it must have
been 3" or 4"
high.  Couldn't really swerve around it, so I decided
to straddle it. 
Now if you will remember my car has H&R sport springs
and sits a
little low...  BANG!  Holly crap!  No idiot lights
came on, oil
pressure was fine, the only thing I noticed was a
stain in my seat.

Got to work and there is hole in the exhaust X and the
pan for the
transmission fluid is majorly dented and scratched
(fortunately no
holes in that one!)

Soooooo, anyone have advice on the following:
1) dealing with the county to get them to pay for my
repair bills
2) price of a good used exhaust X
3) price of a good used steel pan for the transmission
4) advice on how to replace items 2 and 3

Thanks in advance,

- Jeremy

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> 
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 16:29:03 -0400
> From: Kneale Brownson <kneale at coslink.net>
> Subject: Re: [V8] Timing Belt Saga
> To: cobram at juno.com
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> Message-ID:
> <4.1.20050906162321.010ba990 at pop.coslink.net>
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> 
> I did a timing belt on my 4kq with all that crap in
> front in place, and
> then I did my 200q20v with a wide open front end and
> it was so much easier
> to see/manipulate stuff that I figured I'd go at it
> that way.  I find
> replacing the serpentine belt on a V8 to be a
> struggle.  I just can't
> imagine my weak, old, fat body with short, hefty
> arms, being able to do the
> entire TB project comfortably without removing the
> core support.
> 
> I DID manage finally to get that mess past the
> flanges on the ends of the
> frame rails.  I took the oil cooler and A/C
> condenser loose from the
> radiator and let those hang, and that allowed me to
> yank the rest past the
> flanges.  I'd have pulled the radiator, but there
> are the tranny oil lines
> attached.
> 
> So, anyway, the front of the engine is more or less
> exposed now.  Not as
> neat and nice as on the 200, but workable for me and
> my trifocal glasses.
> 
> 
> At 03:59 PM 9/6/2005 -0400, cobram at juno.com wrote:
> >Kneale, I must have missed something, exactly WHY
> are you removing all
> >this stuff that has nothing to do with the Timing
> Belt job??  
> >
> >BCNU,
> >http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
> >God's a kid with an ant farm, lady. He's not
> planning anything.
> >
> >
> >Kneale Brownson <kneale at coslink.net> writes:
> >> Guess I might as well start a new timing belt
> problems thread since 
> >> the
> >> bumper cover finally came off.  I have the core
> support and all its
> >> ancillary parts disconnected but I can't "pull
> the front off the car 
> >> and
> >> lay it under" as described in the KB.  The stuff
> on either side of 
> >> the
> >> radiator runs into the inside flange (the one for
> the one stud/nut 
> >> that was
> >> my hangup on the bumper cover removal) on the end
> of the frame 
> >> rails.
> >> There's what looks to be a notch in that stuff to
> accomodate the 
> >> flange,
> >> but the fender attachment arms of the core
> support run into the 
> >> fender
> >> before I can hoist the assembly high enough to
> clear the flanges.  
> >> What a
> >> PITA this process is.
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 17:55:22 -0400
> From: "Stafford, Kenneth A." <stafford at WPI.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [V8] AC Seal Kit
> To: <v8 at audifans.com>
> Message-ID:
> 
>
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> 
> Brandon, 
> 
> Ok, I give--what/who is FLAPS? I also want an AC
> seal kit!  
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Ken
> 91 V8Q
>  
> > 
> > I just rebuilt the a/c system on my urquattro- and
> some 
> > connections did not 
> > have o-rings - now I don't know if it's because
> they were 
> > never there of 
> > maybe I lost them a while back when I had undone
> some 
> > connections for the 
> > motor swap.  Bottom line - I bought at a FLAPS a
> universal 
> > a/c seal kit for 
> > $3.  
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:58:53 -0700
> From: Jeremy Ward <jward.v8 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [V8] FLAPS - was AC Seal Kit
> To: "Stafford, Kenneth A." <stafford at wpi.edu>
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> Message-ID:
> <4ca624fb05090614585ec657aa at mail.gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> 
> Friendly Local Auto Parts Store ;-)
> 
> On 9/6/05, Stafford, Kenneth A. <stafford at wpi.edu>
> wrote:
> > Brandon,
> > 
> > Ok, I give--what/who is FLAPS? I also want an AC
> seal kit!
> > 
> > TIA,
> > 
> > Ken
> > 91 V8Q
> > 
> > >
> > > I just rebuilt the a/c system on my urquattro-
> and some
> > > connections did not
> > > have o-rings - now I don't know if it's because
> they were
> > > never there of
> > > maybe I lost them a while back when I had undone
> some
> > > connections for the
> > > motor swap.  Bottom line - I bought at a FLAPS a
> universal
> 
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W. Carter Johnson
University of Rhode Island
401-874-4947 office
401-789-3217 home

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