[V8] Things not to do with your V8 - Volume 1

[Carter Johnson]

And I KNEW I shouldn't.  But I did.  And I screwed myself.  
   
  I had to get my "new" GT out of a snow bank and into storage.  It was icy, so I thought instead of digging through 10 feet of ice twice to make tracks, I would use Der TorqueMeister to get the GT out.  Good idea.  Worked like a charm.  Car came right out.  However, my lapse of judgement (I KNOW, I KNOW, I KNOW not to do this) was to use the trunk pin as a tow point.  I just wanted to get it done quick and I figured 10 feet wouldn't matter.  It did - to the tune of 1/4 inch.  I pulled the whole panel out just a hair and bent the pin.  So, after much hammering, swearing, slamming of the trunk, getting on my hands and knees to see why it wouldn't latch, and shimming the pin out 1/4 inch with 4 spacers from something in the new GT (the misc. bolt bucket), I got the trunk to latch.  Total time to move the car 10 feet?  2 hours.
   
  Doh.
   
  I couldn't be bothered to just get a little dirty to start with, huh...
   
  idiot.
   
  Carter


W. Carter Johnson
SileStone/Counterfitt of RI
401-789-3217 home
		
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