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Post by bracketracing on Aug 31, 2015 16:19:58 GMT -6
I got you all beat. Car is good but coming home from Cordova my trailer toad shank broke off and my trailer was loose behind my motorhome. Lucky I was only doing 15-20 mph getting ready to get back on highway. A guy that works for Ricky Jones and his friend both racers loaned us a shank for toad and helped me get back on the road. Minimal damage to back of motorhome
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Post by oneomega on Aug 31, 2015 16:52:12 GMT -6
I got you all beat. Car is good but coming home from Cordova my trailer toad shank broke off and my trailer was loose behind my motorhome. Lucky I was only doing 15-20 mph getting ready to get back on highway. A guy that works for Ricky Jones and his friend both racers loaned us a shank for toad and helped me get back on the road. Minimal damage to back of motorhome You need to be more careful where you get these things!
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Post by bartc on Aug 31, 2015 16:59:12 GMT -6
I got you all beat. Car is good but coming home from Cordova my trailer toad shank broke off and my trailer was loose behind my motorhome. Lucky I was only doing 15-20 mph getting ready to get back on highway. A guy that works for Ricky Jones and his friend both racers loaned us a shank for toad and helped me get back on the road. Minimal damage to back of motorhome Could have been a disaster Amazing luck on the roadside help
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Post by moparsz on Aug 31, 2015 17:48:16 GMT -6
This happened to mine on 8/16
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Post by seeingred on Aug 31, 2015 18:03:14 GMT -6
This happened to mine on 8/16 Whats next ? LA or 5.7 HEMI or another 4.7 ?
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Post by moparsz on Aug 31, 2015 18:14:08 GMT -6
Building another 4.7. Estimating hp to be around 385-390 flywheel on the new motor
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Post by rf1 on Sept 1, 2015 6:12:54 GMT -6
I got you all beat. Car is good but coming home from Cordova my trailer toad shank broke off and my trailer was loose behind my motorhome. Lucky I was only doing 15-20 mph getting ready to get back on highway. A guy that works for Ricky Jones and his friend both racers loaned us a shank for toad and helped me get back on the road. Minimal damage to back of motorhome Been there, done that.....anybody running a cast type receiver hitch beware, Change immediately
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Post by bracketracing on Sept 1, 2015 8:12:38 GMT -6
I got you all beat. Car is good but coming home from Cordova my trailer toad shank broke off and my trailer was loose behind my motorhome. Lucky I was only doing 15-20 mph getting ready to get back on highway. A guy that works for Ricky Jones and his friend both racers loaned us a shank for toad and helped me get back on the road. Minimal damage to back of motorhome Been there, done that.....anybody running a cast type receiver hitch beware, Change immediately The problem is it was a steel one. I'm getting a 2,000 lb tounge weight one today. And side support bars
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Post by rf1 on Sept 1, 2015 8:52:35 GMT -6
I am a proponent of the trailer toad, but with that being said, the toad helps tremendously towing, but backing up I think it creates more stress on the hitch and vehicle than its worth
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Post by 338d on Jun 2, 2016 9:21:05 GMT -6
Well the good news is I believe my month and half long fight with the gremlin is over. It appears as if the 7AL box was the culprit. The bad news is I now have a broken engine as I had a lifter go bad. Not sure if it hurt anything until I check it out, but you never know with the lifter failure, it may not of hurt anything or it could have damaged a bunch. Well I finally made it out with the car for the 1st time since messing the engine up last year and my gremlin I chased for several weeks last year IS NOT GONE! Made a couple passes last night and the only good thing is that it seems worse now and has a pop. Not only did it have a little steady pop while under a load, but it seemed to build a little more heat than normal, so that took us back to fuel or timing. We attempted to check the timing, but it was jumping all over the place from 36-230. Never seen that before. So the good news is that I may have found what's wrong, but still need to find the issue. We unplugged the crank trigger and plugged in distributor and it does the same thing, so that eliminates the crank trigger. I believe I am going to put a new set of plug wires, a new coil on it, and new cap and rotor. We did go through and check grounds and they seem good. I will add that all of these things above I am looking to replace are all 20 years old.
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Post by drphillips309 on Jun 2, 2016 10:33:18 GMT -6
You will get it . Just keep throwing money at it like the rest of us
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Post by 338d on Jun 2, 2016 10:47:15 GMT -6
You will get it . Just keep throwing money at it like the rest of us That's the truth. The throwing money at it is starting to get real old and Clayboy is about out of money to throw at it!
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Post by ab5098 on Jun 2, 2016 11:28:36 GMT -6
take the dist cap off and grab the rotor try to twist it back and forth see if there is a bunch of movement there .
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Post by 338d on Jun 2, 2016 11:52:19 GMT -6
take the dist cap off and grab the rotor try to twist it back and forth see if there is a bunch of movement there . Will try that out this evening.
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Post by rf1 on Jun 2, 2016 12:22:18 GMT -6
I always start with the Allen headed screw that holds the rotor to the distributor, not the 2 screws that hold the rotor on , but the one under those It did exactly what you are describing when that was loose
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