The furthest you've gone?

"V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me!" (v8demon) 12/09/2016 at 01:13 • Filed to: None

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In light of the article on the front page with the person driving on a disintegrating wheel I got to thinking; what’s the furthest I’VE nursed a known broke vehicle home and what was the ailment?

Winter of ‘99-2000. I drove 50 miles or so with a stuck closed thermostat knowing full well it was stuck closed. To be fair it was about 5 degrees Fahrenheit out and the car in question had iron heads and an iron block. I knew no damage would occur and I wasn’t about to leave it at whatever ungodly hour it was (2 A.M.-ish?).

I ask you guys? What’s the furthest you’ve driven a broke car?

Audistein > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 01:17

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I drove a ridiculously-tech-filled V8 Audi for 300+ miles with the check-engine light on.

I don’t know where that bravery came from.

Dusty Ventures > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 01:18

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60 miles on a flat, half of them at race speed.

And it was snowing.

HammerheadFistpunch > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 01:22

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I drove a dozen miles renently on a completely dead injector

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > HammerheadFistpunch 12/09/2016 at 01:24

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That must have felt like one hell of a misfire constantly.

RedlineZ bought an SV (And is getting rid of the z) > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 01:26

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back when I had my wrangler in high school I screwed up a downshift and accidentally went from 5th to 2nd instead of 4th. 2nd gear ended up getting shredded and 4th was damaged to the point of being unusable. for a month or so when I drove I had to shift from 1-3-5 until I scraped up enough money to get her fixed.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 01:28

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I drove about ten miles with one cylinder inoperable. I had to drive during the start of a hurricane, I hit some standing water and somehow it splashed up on top of the engine and cracked a spark plug.

Agrajag > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 01:28

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About 3 miles without brakes.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 01:30

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Drove a Montero Sport with a cracked radiator 300 miles from Syracuse to Boston in 2005 with three friends. We had funnel with a hose into the coolant reservoir duct taped to the A-pillar and about a half dozen gallon jugs of water in the car. Each time the temperature started to rise we poured a gallon of water into the funnel. Had to stop to fill up the jugs twice.

FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 12/09/2016 at 01:36

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I also drove something like the last 50 miles into Boston on the Mass Pike in 2007 in my ES300 with a blown head gasket that obviously was leading to overheating issues. It would do OK at speed with the hood popped, but any time traffic slowed I keep an eye on temps and pull over for a while if it started to heat up much.

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > FTTOHG Has Moved to https://opposite-lock.com 12/09/2016 at 01:42

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One of the supervisors at my job called me in one day. He shows me the bypass outlet on the radiator on his 2005 Lexus RX. It’s cracked and pissing coolant everywhere. We cleaned it up, duct taped it to hell and back, and I was able to use a few zip ties to get it secure. Filled it up and he was able to get it to the dealer. Over a 22 mile trip he says when he got there the tape had stayed dry. Apparently it didn’t lose a drop.

Sidwndr > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 01:53

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70 miles at 65 in suburban with cracked heads running on 5 cylinders

gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 02:00

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I drove my MJ 800 miles this summer with a dying fuel pump. No more than 2000 rpm or she leaned out and died. But it wasn’t limping home... It was limping onwards! Driving towards the Lemons Rally starting point, kept going until I found a new fuel pump, changed it out behind a strip mall across from our hotel in Lethbridge, AB, and then finished the next 5000 miles of the journey with pride (and no other issues).

HammerheadFistpunch > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 02:01

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Thats exactly what it felt like

Wagon, semi manual, not brown, turbo because volvo > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 05:20

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2 months and roughly 300 miles on a questionable spare and a malfunctioning abs controller.

That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 06:07

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I drove my 2001 Audi allroad home about 8 miles on a dead alternator.

Now that doesn’t sound so bad, since if you get there you get there, but consider: allroads have adjustable air suspension, and mine was a bit leaky at the time. So as the battery is dying, I can hear the stupid compressor trying to run...and it keeps going slower and slower, eventually it’s just a slow series of clicks and the car is resting on its bump stops.

I had turned off everything else, but you can’t turn off the air suspension without pulling a fuse. It started sputtering a half mile from my house, I figured I’d be calling a tow to go like 300 feet, but it kept moving.

Now I could see my house, so I picked up what little speed I could, coasted towards my driveway, turned in...and the car died just before I came to a stop in the driveway.

Unrelated story, I had a tire go flat on a work van on the highway. My boss was too cheap to have AAA, and I wasn’t about to change the tire on the highway, so I had to drive it two miles to get off the highway and into a parking lot.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 06:48

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5km, with a tranmission spewing fluid because I didn’t seat the snap ring properly on the servo cap. But since I didn’t pick up on it for 4 of those km’s, I don’t think they count

PartyPooper2012 > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 06:59

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lol. 1989 Acura Integra LS 5spd had a massive distributor issue. It would not let me rev past 1800 rpm or go max 62.5 mph. No one could figure out why... anyway.. .drove from NY to NC and back.

bingham123 > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 07:09

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drove 400 miles with two dead bearings in the rear axle, an exhaust leak at the cat, no windows in the doors or boot, no radio, it puled left when accelerating and right under braking, wouldn’t tick over on its own and topped out at 50-60mph

possibly the worst day of my life. oh and 1 mile from my house the back left wheel locked up, what was i driving?.....

a fucking mk1 ford fiesta,

McMike > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 07:22

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Probably two miles.

I hit a curb, found that the rim and tire we’re a loss and said “fuck it” and just drove the rest of the way home.

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee 12/09/2016 at 07:48

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This is madness.....

I salute you!

XJDano > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 07:58

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I drove the metro with a broken motor mount bolt, for a few months. I had a couple shops look at it and replace the CV shafts, but one day when I was changing the oil I noticed a bolt had backed out and one bolt head had sheared off. “Well no wonder it’s clunking”

Symptoms were a clunking on acceleration. That year I was driving 1200 miles in a week or more as I was working out of town, so highsways it was fine. I think I autox it a few times like that as well .

beardsbynelly - Rikerbeard > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 08:17

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recently? 6 hours in a diesel hilux with a blown head gasket.

drive 5 mins and wait 30 for it to cool down.

McMike > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 08:34

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About 10 miles (I’m remembering more of them as we go this morning)

I was sitting in line at the bank in a Vanagon in the heat of summer, and all of a sudden, I saw steam coming out of the grill. My radiator was developed a pinhole leak, and was now streaming coolant on to the back car in front of me.

I watched the temp gauge, and it wasn’t out of line yet. I was glad, since I was was stuck in the drive-thru line.

Radiator fan kicks in, stream still spraying. There are still two cars in front of me.

Each person in front of me was taking their time. Forgot to sign checks, forgot to include their ID, or had 20 questions to ask the teller.

Temp now rising, stream still spraying. I’m trying to calculate how much coolant I have lost by looking at the tailgate/bumper of the Ford Explorer I’ve been pissing coolant on for the last five minutes..

I thought I was going to lose it when one of them dropped and pen and spent a few minutes trying to figure out how to get out of their car to retireve it.

Temp now critical.

I’m finally next in line, make my deposit, and tear out of there as quickly as I could.

Now moving, the temp starts dropping, but not for long. Within five minutes, it’s critical again. I had run out of time.

About three miles from home, I had to shut the engine down, so I pulled into this side street to let it cool down enough to hopefully make it the three miles home. I had no water, I had no smartphone, no magazines. Just a van full of patio furniture.

As I was sitting there waiting with all the windows down waiting, thinking about getting out a patio lounge to lay on, I heard running water.

OMG, a creek. I got out, and took a walk and found it about 100 feet into the woods. Only problem is, I had no way to get the water to my radiator.

I looked around in the woods a little more, and found a few discarded beer/soda bottles. I rinsed them out, and started taking water up to the van.

Problem now, is that the overflow/fill tank is under the engine lid in the back of the van. Under the lid that had all the patio furniture on top of it.

I’m not sure what people thought as they drove by when they saw a whole patio set on the side of the road while I guy came in and out of the woods with empty beer bottles, but at least I was able to add enough water to get the car home. I wasn’t able to bleed the system, but there was enough flowing through the radiator to finish the trip.

Ordered a radiator the next morning.

The end.

BigBlock440 > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 08:35

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About 70 miles with no brakes. Well, I kinda had brakes. At a town about halfway home I come down on the offramp and feel the pedal start to feel different, but still stopped at the bottom. Continuing on I come to a red light, pedal goes to the floor and I’ve got to blow through the light. Luckily I’m making a right turn and squeeze in with the flow of traffic without hitting anything but a curb and continue on with the flashers on slowly creeping along in the right line deciding where I’m going to stop, I remember an Advance Auto is nearby. Creep the 4 miles there, stop it with the parking block, and go buy some brake lines and 2 jugs of fluid. Called a friend who lived nearby, drove to his apartment, now with fluid and semi-functional brakes. Replaced the front brake line where it was leaking, refilled the fluid and drove the 70 miles with a soft pedal and front only brakes to my parents house where I replaced the rear, as well as the pads/rotors and shoes for the hell of it.

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > McMike 12/09/2016 at 08:56

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Stars!!!

You have the same type of bad luck that I do. It’s stuff out of a movie. I probably would have been punching g the steering wheel when the pen got dropped if this had happened to me.

PotbellyJoe and 42 others > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 09:02

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I drove from Jacksonville to Naples, FL on 4 out of 6 cylinders. The factory original spark plug wires decided that they had had enough at 185k miles in my 1989 Mercury Sable. Technically it was only 1 that went bad, but the vibration screwed up the other one.

McMike > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 09:02

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Speaking of movie - it made me think of this scene.

I’m the next person in line - I’m soooooo close to getting away. Then the pen dropped.

Mercedes Streeter > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 09:11

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Depends on how you define broken?

If we’re talking a car that shouldn’t be on the road? 30 miles. A 2001 Kia Rio without a working cooling fan and without a working water pump (because the serp belt snapped). Drove it home from the beach. Battery died as I pulled into the driveway.

A car that definitely needs a repair of some kind? 118,000 miles. xD

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > McMike 12/09/2016 at 09:14

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Lol! Great flick!

“He was found in his hotel room impaled on a large electrical device. Our surgeons did what they could, but it took the two hours to wipe the smile off his face”

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 09:17

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My radiator went bad about 1/4 of the way into a 2000 mile (roundtrip) adventure. It started leaking slowly(smelled like coolant, was seeping out of the top of the rad) and I managed to just refill the overflow tank at every other fuel stop until about 3/4 of the way through the trip. Then my thermostat failed (stuck open thankfully) which added another annoyance to contend with (no heat, but it was late April so I was alright). At some point earlier in the trip I ordered a radiator from rockauto and it arrived by the time I got home. Literally the next morning after I got home late the night before, the radiator gave up the ghost in a steam cloud on my way over to my hobby shop where I could replace it. Thankfully no overheating and I hobbled over there without stopping (basically driving air cooled at that point) and I fixed that quickly.

So the longest I have gone is about 1500 miles over like 5 days.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > That Bastard Kurtis - An Attempt to Standardize My Username Across Platforms 12/09/2016 at 09:25

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This issue was much less bad in my Miata lol. I drove about the same distance with a completely dead alternator. I was alerted to the issue because my radio shut off and the car was stumbling while driving 70 mph. But I just took the next exit on the freeway, looped around on some non-busy highway with only a few lights and made it home without much trouble. I had no brake lights or turn signals so it was sketchy but the car didnt stall out. Pretty sure the injectors were the only thing electrically going anyways in this car haha. When I got home, the battery was reading about 9 volts with a multimeter!

McMike > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 09:26

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[talking on the phone] What is the condition of Sergeant Kruger?

[pause]

Very well, let me know if there is any change in his condition.

[Hangs up]

He’s dead.

Pickup_man > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 09:28

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I’ve driven my truck about 20 miles on a bad coil. I also drove it for quite a while with a ball joint that was starting to click, then I loaded a motorcycle into the back of it and drove it 370 miles, which was a bad idea because then it really starting making some noise. So 370 miles from home with no way to replace the upper control arm I dropped the bike off and headed back. Not the greatest idea but I made it.

When I was younger we had to drive the truck 230ish miles with metal on metal brakes, while towing a boat. Something on that truck likes to squeal fairly constantly, especially when warm*, so I don’t ever get the telltale brake squeal to know when my pads are nearly gone. So we’re driving through town and the truck starts to make a horrendous squealing noise and suddenly it’s metal on metal. Hooray for nearly deserted two lane highways!

*Ya know, now that I think about it, the last time I replaced my brakes I noticed one of my calipers was a little sticky. That... that’s probably what it is... maybe I should replace that.

Pickup_man > HammerheadFistpunch 12/09/2016 at 09:32

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I recently drove about 20 miles on a dead coil, not an enjoyable experience.

DarrenMR > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 09:53

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I had snapped the belts on my miata a few years back. Was maybe 2 miles from home. At the time I was paying for a service that offered towing. But they quoted me 8 freaking hours before they could get to me. Needless to say I canceled that nonsense ASAP. Drove it a bit, let it sit for a while and gave it a push, then drove it a bit more, repeat. Got it home with no overheating or charging issues.

Then a few days ago my wifes car had a flat. I am ashamed to say I drove about 50 feet before I realized thats what the noise was. Got some air in it real quick and got it back into my driveway to be patched pretty easily.

sonicgabe > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 09:59

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For 5 hours, but only covering 81 miles...

Back in the fall of 2000, I drove my Nissan pickup from Tampa to Orlando to a concert. This was a regular thing for me, so making the drive alone was no big deal. Being a musician and often traveling to gigs, I always kept tools in my truck. For some reason, which 16 years later I can not remember, that night I had none. Maybe I took everything out to clean and reorganization? Who knows...

Anyway, after the show I said my goodbyes to friends, left the club around 1am to start the drive home. After about 15 minutes, the truck starts to loose power. I pull off the interstate to a 7-11 to check it out. It’s well lit, they have a bathroom, plus all the crappy food and Big Gulps money can buy. If you’re going to break down, this is the place to be.

I pop the hood, poke around, and quickly find the problem. The bolt that holds the alternator on, the one it pivots on when adjusting the tension, has sheared off. The alternator is loose (and the battery depleted), hence the lack of power. No worries! I’ll just get my trusty tool kit and will have this fixed in a jiffy. Oh yeah. No tool kit tonight. Ok, let me just get my iPhone out and... Oh yeah, this is the year 2000. No iphone. Hell, no flip phone! Shit.

While I’m weighing my options (even with AAA, the tow bill would have been considerable), a guy walks over and asks if he can help. He saw my hood up and probably heard me cursing profusely. Normally, a stranger in a 7-11 parking lot at 1:30am is NOT going to be someone you want to talk to; but this guy had just pulled up in an immaculate vintage VW van. SALVATION! Well, not yet.

Turns out, inexplicably, he had no tools in the van. WHAT. THE. FUCK. How does a VW van not have tools in it? Seriously. Turns out, he had just sailed a friend’s boat down the coast from New England to somewhere on Florida’s east coast. He left his van near the drop off point and was now driving home. He cleaned out the van so that nothing would be stolen while is was parked and waiting for him. D’oh!

He did, however, have a big flat head screwdriver. Using this, we were able to pry the both parts of the sheared bolt off the alternator and mounting bracket. This still left me with a loose, dangling alternator. Hmm...

At this point, I remembered seeing the zip-tie! I had seen it while unloading amps and guitars just the other day. I climbed in the bed of my truck and under cover of darkness from my topper, I ran my fingers through the grooves of the bed liner and quickly found it. My new VW van friend pulled the alternator into position while I ran the zip-tie through the mounting bolt holes. SALVATION! Well, not yet.

Turns out that since we don’t have anything to properly tighten the adjusting bolt with, the tension on the belt isn’t exactly what it needs to be for the truck to be back to 100%. D’oh!

After a little trial and error, VW guy and I figure it out. Turns out, the alternator isn’t getting turned enough to power my truck AND the headlights. We learn that it is turning enough to power the truck and charge the battery a little WITHOUT the headlights. This is a problem as it’s now about 2:30am, I kinda need headlights on. VW guy asks where exactly I’m heading, which is Tampa. He is heading the same way, but going a little further west to St Petersburg.

This is the solution. We let my battery charge (keeping the RPMs at about 1500) for about 20 minutes while at 7-11. No a/c, no fan, no radio, no headlights, no dashboard lights. Then we hit the road, only adding headlights to the mix. VW guy will follow me. As soon as I notice the power fading, we will pull over and charge the battery up again for 20 minutes. He followed me all the way to my exit in Tampa, stopping with me every time I needed to pull over, which was probably five times. SALVATION!

After our last stop, the sun was starting to come up, so headlights were no longer an issue. I knew I could make the last leg of the journey safely. We waved goodbye and I made it home. Later that day, I dropped the truck off to get it fixed and looked over to make sure nothing else was damaged.

Picking up my truck from the shop the next day is a completely different story involving a different van that is referred to by it’s musician owner as “The Boat”. But that’s a different story.

Land_Yacht_225 > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 10:07

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It was about a half a mile, but it took me about 15 minutes to do it because I was stuck in the right lane during a traffic jam. Complete and total failure of my hydraulic system, suspension and steering. First the car showed the ABC warining light in white, then it went bright red. Car isn’t moving, so it’s pegged at 95 C, and pentosin (which is flammable) is leaking out into the exhaust manifold. Thank God it didn’t catch fire.

EDIT: Wait! I’ve got a way better one. When my family initially moved down to North Carolina from Wisconsin, I had to drive down once I finished my freshman year of college. So I had loaded my entire dorm room (including an 8 cubic foot refrigerator) into a 1998 Lincoln Continental. Now, the car has been pulling left under braking for a couple months, so I assume I have a stuck caliper. So, I go up to Appleton and pick up my friend, because he said he would help me drive to NC because we would continue on to Naples, FL and hang around for the week with my parents in our friends condo at the beach. So we drive, without incident, the whole day 1000 miles to Durham, NC from Appleton, WI. And get up the next day and drive another 800 miles to Naples. My dad drives my car most of the way to Naples, and does admit that, yes, the car is pulling under braking and we will get it checked in Florida...one functional brake caliper. 1800 miles in two days over the Appalachian mountains of West Virginia, ON ONE BRAKE CALIPER! NO SHIT THE CAR WAS PULLING TO THE LEFT!

MonkeePuzzle > McMike 12/09/2016 at 10:15

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its a good story with cliffhangers throughout, that only car people would be nervous reading. others are like “wha... oh its broken... who cares”

I’ve done the look through the woods for a water container, and only found homemade bongs...

McMike > MonkeePuzzle 12/09/2016 at 10:38

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Re: containers

I ran out of gas on the motorcycle once. Had to walk about (luckly, only) a mile to a filling station.

The entire mile I was searching the shoulder for a suitable container to put fuel in. I first picked up a little Corona bottle, later a 16oz tall boy can, and eventually I found a 40oz bottle.

Wearing a leather jacket and chaps, I can’t help but to think that everyone that passed me must have thought that the Village People had adopted that section of the highway and today was cleanup day.

When I got to the station, I realized there was no way I was going to get fuel from the nozzle into the small mouth of the 40. I ended up buying one of those funny Arizona iced tea bottles with the large mouth, slammed it, then bought 28oz of fuel.

The only thing I like less than iced tea is peppermint mango whatever explosion iced tea.

*slide card*

*purchase .2 gallon*

*return 15 min later to fill tank*

I don’t think I have bought that little fuel since I was in high school.

MonkeePuzzle > McMike 12/09/2016 at 10:53

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but... but... its ILLEGAL to dispense gas into an unapproved container!!!!

I’MMA TELLING!!!

and lol at the village people adopt a highway :D

Takuro Spirit > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 11:03

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A few hundred feet.

Oil light came on while rounding a soft curve on the highway at 70mph. The LAST time it had come on I was 2 quarts low. And it was a TIGHT corner. I knew something not good was about to happen.

I turned down the radio and heard KNOCKKNOCKKNOCKKNOCKKNOCKKNOCKKNOCKKNOCKKNOCKKNOCKKNOCKKNOCK and immediately pulled over.

After letting it cool a bit, I checked the dipstick and noted it was dry. I retrieved a few quarts of oil from the case in the trunk (it was a recurring problem, you see) and topped it off. It. Took. THREE. QUARTS.

Meanwhile a nice lady State Trooper stopped behind me and asked if I needed assistance. I told her it was just low on oil, I was topping it up and I’d be on my way. She said she’d stay until I got going.

I started the car and KNOCKKNOCKKNOCKKNOCKKNOCKKNOCK fuck. Put it in gear, and tried to pull back into traffic.

Not knowing at the time, the oil starvation had worn a lobe off the camshaft, and the #8 cylinder was dead in the water. On a 305 V8 that made 145hp back in 1977, dropping a cylinder 20 years later meant that It wasn’t moving all too swiftly on whatever double digit ponies that were left. Plus the noise and bucking and backfiring made me think “I SHOULD NOT DRIVE THIS”.

So I pulled back over, lady State Trooper not far behind. I made it a few hundred feet.

She gave me a ride to the next exit where there was a McDonalds and a gas station, where I proceeded to call everyone I knew that might be awake at 11pm at night.... needless to say both locations closed before I got a call back on the pay phones (this was before cell phones cheap enough for an 18yo to afford) and I was left out in the elements. It wasn’t TOO cold out, as I think it was October or so.... but it was gonna be.

After deciding to either A. cry or B. see if the church nearby was open so I could sleep the night in a pew, the nice lady Trooper showed back up and asked why I was still there.

After telling her everyone hates me, she got clearance to drive me the 20+ miles home, out of her jurisdiction, at 1AM.

McMike > MonkeePuzzle 12/09/2016 at 11:04

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It should be illegal to put that lavender rose mint water ice tea in a bottle too.

I thought about trying to hide the fact that I was filling up the bottle with fuel, but it’s hard to be sneaky when you’re dressed like that. It’s even harder when you’re dressed like that and you show up on foot without a motorcycle.

I was also the only one there.

The cashier didn’t look like he was the type of employee to give two fucks anyway. Even if he did, I would have pumped those 28oz before he could say anything.

MonkeePuzzle > McMike 12/09/2016 at 11:07

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if you got questioned, dressed as a biker sans bike, likely turning to the questioner and screaming “I’M GOING TO DRINK IT!” would have bought you enough time to finish filling and depart

McMike > MonkeePuzzle 12/09/2016 at 11:14

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LOL

“Do you think walking around in this is comfortable? Unlike you I cant just sit in the air conditioing all day. I’ve got to be in Richmond by 7:00, and I’m fucking thirsty!”  

Urambo Tauro > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 11:50

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A few years ago, my 1994 Cougar (V6) was sipping coolant and I had yet to find the leak. One evening, as I checked the coolant before leaving work, it seemed especially thirsty.

I headed home and it started to overheat almost as soon as it got warm. I topped it off again, but only made it a couple of miles before the temperature started getting too high again. As I emptied my last jug of coolant into the car, I took a big whiff of the surge tank... sure enough: exhaust fumes.

Bingo. Head gasket.

I made it a few more miles (stopping once or twice more to let the engine sit and cool down) and gave up. I had successfully made it about 15 miles (halfway home), but didn’t want to completely ruin the engine.

I called for a ride, and returned the next day with a Suburban and a trailer. It was winter, and I didn’t have a heated garage, so I took it to a friend’s place (who did have heat) and changed the head gaskets there.

Bandit - destroyed his car > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 11:56

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Recently? About 4 feet. Long time ago and with a different engine installed I drove around on 6 cylinders for a couple months because I couldn’t figure out why two weren’t firing.

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 12:03

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A couple months ago my serpentine belt decided to commit suicide. I was only a mile or so from home so I limped it home, keeping an eye on the temp.

Pyrochazm > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 12:28

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Not sure of the mileage, but I drove from Kennewick, WA to Kent, WA with a blown head gasket. It’s actually a really long story but the reason I drove to the tri-citys was to hook up with this girl I met a month before. On the way back it was well over a hundred degrees out and the head gasket was just pissing out coolant. I turned the heater on full blast and stopped every hour or so to add water. It made it though, and the next week my Mom stole it and finished the job on that poor cylinder head.

But that’s another story.

Nibbles > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 13:00

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I put about 20k on a Saab 900 with a failing head gasket and bad rings in cyls 2 and 3. She didn’t want to run but she just kept on keeping on.

Justino6969 > V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! 12/09/2016 at 16:32

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About 15 miles. One of the bolts on my Jetta’s lower control arm on the driver’s side fell out. So it would drive relatively straight, give it some more gas and all of the sudden you veered to the right when the boost kicked in. Made for an interesting drive through the hills at midnight.