sounds like you have a POS there, I will give you 500 for it, if you
deliver it.
Curt Raymond wrote:
So because of the ice storm gas is kind of precious, its not that theres a
shortage but most gas stations weren't having power. (Problem solved as of
yesterday for the most part. Pretend I was writing this Saturday...) The Ranger
seems to have a small, maybe 19 gallon gas tank and at 17mpg around town plows
through gas pretty good. So we decided to use the 190D instead as it had a full
tank of diesel and will do well over 30mpg even around town.
Everything was fine until Angie and her Mom went to the store on Saturday (Sunday? I
forget, its been a busy few days). They call because the car went "bang" and
now the brakes are spongy. FIL and I head over to check it out. The brakes are basically
missing, the right front suspension is all wet and the master cylinder is basically dry.
I pick up a quart of brake fluid, fill the master cylinder and head toward home ~10
miles. Theres not much traffic because of the storm (the roads are dry but remember its
hard to get gas) and with the manual trans I figure we'll be okay if I take it slow.
Every couple minutes I get this horrible grinding/squeaking/squealing noise
which lasts for 10-20 seconds and goes away. The sound seems related to ground
speed, (ie if I slow down the noise slows down) but the frequency of the sound
(ie how often it happens) does not. I figure I'm going to press on until we get
home or a wheel falls off.
The rear brakes seem to work but it takes nearly all the pedal to get the car
stopped, between them, judicious use of the parking brake and downshifting we
get home just fine. It was an great example of the team work my wife and I are
capable of. I don't have enough hands to work the parking brake, shift, and
steer all at the same time (because my feet are busy too) so she works the
lever, what a great kid.
So I call my Indy, its nasty out and I don't particularly want to be working on
this in the driveway but he lives out in the country with trees all around and
has no power. He's got a car up on the lift but his generators aren't strong
enough to get it back down.
My 240D is over there, he says it needs the Ujoint rebuilt in the trans which
would explain the vibration I'd been feeling. However that car is broke less
than the 190D so we go get it...
Snow in the forecast for the rest of the week so the 190D is parked... I'm
getting really tired of this...
-Curt
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