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

[Kneale Brownson]

Wow, and the V8 has that neat screw-in tow hook.  You don't even have to
get down on your knees.


At 11:09 AM 2/7/2006 -0800, Carter Johnson wrote:
>
>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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