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Title: My luck is horrid
Post by: keelay on July 04, 2010, 12:13:33 PM
On the way to the U.P. in Michigan. Largest Budget rental truck available, STUFFED with shop equipment, pulling the SVO, an 87 Chevy truck (514cid Cadillac/th400) loaded down pulling an 02 GT shell, and my sentra being driven by the wife.
  We are in Louisville, KY. The clutch shit the bed in the Sentra, during highway driving at 65. Not while raping it, or even close thereafter. So we just unloaded the SVO, and loaded the sentra on the dolly. Pulled into a motel 6 for the day (been driving since 8 last night).
   This fucking clutch is going to take my "get it tuned" money, goddammit. Or I could just stick a fucking XTD in it, AND get a good tune.
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: TheMadScientist on July 04, 2010, 01:14:52 PM
Whats the U.P.?
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: turbob16hatch on July 04, 2010, 01:59:43 PM
How does your clutch just "go out"?  :?:

I have never understood that. Do you like not maintain your car or what? I mean highway driving isn't exactly tough on a car and the clutch just couldn't hold all that power cruising at 65mph?
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: 92CXyD on July 04, 2010, 02:01:31 PM
How does your clutch just "go out"?  :?:

I have never understood that. Do you like not maintain your car or what? I mean highway driving isn't exactly tough on a car and the clutch just couldn't hold all that power cruising at 65mph?

It need clutch fluid or cable tightened (depending on the clutch setup). ;D
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: onlyflash944 on July 04, 2010, 02:07:17 PM
Whats the U.P.?

upper peninsula



i'm from WV and i know that...
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: Joseph Davis on July 04, 2010, 02:30:57 PM
How does your clutch just "go out"?  :?:

1) Buy mystery car two days ago
2) ???
3) Profit!
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: colt45 on July 04, 2010, 02:40:51 PM
To consider luck is to be a gambler... don't gamble.  go for the sure thing.  aka fat girls.
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: turbob16hatch on July 04, 2010, 02:41:33 PM
How does your clutch just "go out"?  :?:

1) Buy mystery car two days ago
2) ???
3) Profit!

Well it is a sentra. I have been driving a civic on 3 cyl for 200+ miles and it's yet to leave me stranded.
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: 2slow on July 04, 2010, 02:50:41 PM
My geo runs on 3 cylinders all the time
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: crttaz on July 04, 2010, 03:47:01 PM
Swifts are shitty on 3 cylinders.
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: runsfromdacops on July 04, 2010, 05:22:34 PM
My geo runs on 3 cylinders all the time
my sprint did the same thing :D
shit my civic does that when i first start it. after 7-10 secs shes purring on all 4  :noel:
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: narfdanarf on July 04, 2010, 05:29:28 PM
Whats the U.P.?

upper peninsula



i'm from WV and i know that...

where from I am from parkersburg
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: turbohf on July 04, 2010, 05:31:03 PM
How does your clutch just "go out"?  :?:

1) Buy mystery car two days ago
2) ???
3) Profit!

Well it is a sentra. I have been driving a civic on 3 cyl for 200+ miles and it's yet to leave me stranded.

i drove my wagon for SEVERAL thousand miles on 3 cylinders... and thousand miles or so on a clutch with a broken spring in it...
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: onlyflash944 on July 04, 2010, 07:10:20 PM
Whats the U.P.?

upper peninsula



i'm from WV and i know that...

where from I am from parkersburg

bluefield, about as far away as possible from where you are.  now i live in va cause everyone knows the south will rise again
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: turbob16hatch on July 04, 2010, 08:32:36 PM
How does your clutch just "go out"?  :?:

1) Buy mystery car two days ago
2) ???
3) Profit!

Well it is a sentra. I have been driving a civic on 3 cyl for 200+ miles and it's yet to leave me stranded.

i drove my wagon for SEVERAL thousand miles on 3 cylinders... and thousand miles or so on a clutch with a broken spring in it...

Proof honda>ALL?
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: keelay on July 04, 2010, 11:30:33 PM
Bah, it's no big deal. It's a clutch, that wasn't adjusted correctly. What does that possibly have to do with a honda running on 3 cylinders? Everyone has crazy tough motor stories, it's nothing unusual. I drove my old ranger the last 30k of its life with 0 compression (completely burnt exhaust valve) on cyl 4.
  Still in Louisville, lost the keys to the 87 chevy, somehow. This trip just gets better by the hour. If I can't find them in the morning with daylight, a screwdriver will start it.
   Anyone near by?
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: Joseph Davis on July 05, 2010, 12:41:44 AM
You're ~60 miles from the Southern Ohio Lowrents.  Foowee, Dennis, Bone, Blundell, et al.
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: keelay on July 05, 2010, 01:03:05 AM
If anyone wants to meet up and grab some beverages, or whatever, I'm down for that. I'm not on a tight schedule anymore. The buddy that is moving, just left the hotel with the rental truck and my car in tow headed to MI, as he has a time line to keep b/c of the rental. I've got to track down a Wachovia around here before I head out tomorrow, screwdriver the ignition switch in the truck if I can't find the keys, and run a thorough check of both vehicles.
  I'm thinking of moving up there myself. Depending how much money I have to spend to move, and fix the car, and then detour by your place JD for a tune. Bright side is highway cruising yields EXCELLENT fuel mileage in the sentra. Small fuel tank, and still had only used 3/4 tank at the 400 mile mark. That is amazing to me.
Title: Re: My luck is horrid
Post by: keelay on July 06, 2010, 06:23:17 PM
In Lansing, MI now.
Stuck.
Thankfully we made it to the in laws, even if we had to detour.
There are NO Wachovia/Wells Fargo banks anywhere within 10 hours of here.
They will not transfer funds to my Regions account.
 I'm about to say fuck it, and overdraft the shit out of my Regions account to make it to the U.P