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Test Equipment Anonymous (TEA) group therapy thread
mnementh:
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--- Quote from: mnementh on June 16, 2018, 12:06:26 am ---
--- Quote from: Specmaster on June 15, 2018, 08:35:58 pm ---Good work on the light saber but what the hell do you yanks do to our British cars? Fords are very reliable over here, Hmm could it be that your grease monkeys don't know how to service small engines that extract a lot of HP from very few CC's?
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A lot of HP out of small CCs? Not from the engine in THAT thing... This was the original Cortina motor, a 4-cyl iron-head/iron-block pushrod dinosaur designed in the '50s that made about 85 HP in its prime. Add stone-age emissions control from the '80s and a Holley 5200 series electric carburetor... that thing barely made enough :horse: HP to get out of its own way.
The first thing we teenagers did on them was to deplumb the engine, core out the cat and bolt on a non-electric 5200; then the damn thing could be counted on to get you to & from work. When inspection time came around, we'd put the stock air cleaner with all it's hosiery & crap back on the non-electric carb so they couldn't tell it had been gutted unless they were willing to poke around a half an inch of grease and oil from all that crap.
I didn't do that to mine until it hit 80K and started sucking oil back through the EGR; what a stinking mess THAT made of things. :palm: I was SO relieved to be rid of the three of them when I bought my first Honda Civic, I tell you what. :box: :palm: :phew:
mnem
*Veteran of a thousand psychic wars used cars*
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Sounds like you had a completely setup to us Brits then.
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:wtf:
mnem
I must be losing it. more.
med6753:
--- Quote from: Squarewave on June 15, 2018, 07:26:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: med6753 on June 15, 2018, 06:10:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: nixiefreqq on June 15, 2018, 06:03:44 pm ---maybe its an inherited trait.
in 1986 my old man was 'bout the only guy in the greater philly area to buy a racing green import called a "cortina". what a piece of dog shit it was. every morning before cranking it over he had to look underneath to see what had spontaneously fallen off it overnight. the ford dealer never could make it right and finally took it back (he got a torino to replace the little green turd).
to this day he loves that damn cortina.
and I love my 1740 series scopes.
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That's no surprise. Because the Cortina was.....
ahem.....
wait for it.......
Here it comes........
Ford :palm: :-DD
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And where does ford come from? ;)
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FORD = Fix Or Repair Daily.....Found On Road Dead....First Out on Race Day.
Trust me, most American cars during that era were rolling turds too. The difference was we could get the parts for repair same day rather than wait 6 weeks for import. :phew: And then the Japanese nearly ate our lunch. :o
bd139:
--- Quote from: tggzzz on June 16, 2018, 12:25:02 am ---
--- Quote from: bd139 on June 15, 2018, 06:18:03 pm ---My second car was a brown cortina. I had that for three weeks. It died. When I say died, I hit the brakes and the engine came out. :-DD
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I presume you bolted it back in, and continued the journey. That's what I did :)
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Unfortunately not. It foobared the ignition loom. Engine was crudely relocated and then it was towed home by a friend. Back then, no mobile phones so it was stuck on the A120 for three hours while I found a pay phone.
Cubdriver:
--- Quote from: med6753 on June 16, 2018, 05:25:24 am ---
--- Quote from: Squarewave on June 15, 2018, 07:26:22 pm ---And where does ford come from? ;)
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FORD = Fix Or Repair Daily.....Found On Road Dead....First Out on Race Day.
Trust me, most American cars during that era were rolling turds too. The difference was we could get the parts for repair same day rather than wait 6 weeks for import. :phew: And then the Japanese nearly ate our lunch. :o
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Fecking Over Rated Disaster
-Pat
SeanB:
Well, years ago I was in my home, and heard shouting outside. Go to window and look out, there is a Mk1 Ford Escort 1600 Sport stopped at the light, with smoke coming from the engine bay. Pick up the phone right there and call the fire department. While dialling there is a tow truck driver there with a dry powder fire extinguisher, aiming it under the bonnet to try to put out the fire. fire deparment answers, and, before i could even finish giving them the address of the vehicle both driver and tow operator were running away from the rapidly spreading pool of fire that had suddenly appeared. Still on the phone and first the one front wheel exploded, then the other. Put down the phone and watch the show, around 30 seconds later the fire is at the rear, and growing, and there are another 2 bangs before the spare pops open the rear. Glass breaks from the heat, interior well aflame, and after 3 minutes the fire brigade roars up, to put out the remains to protect the road.
Those early 1600 Escorts, and pretty much every ford with the same engine, had a well known fault, in that the fuel line ran right over the exhaust going to the carburettor, and if there was a fuel leak, or the hose rotted from the heat, you would have a fire. I made sure after that to check and replace fuel lines on my vehicles, so that I would not suffer the same fate.
But, my Ford/Mazda, with the Ford CVH engine, was pretty reliable, did the clutch on it, rebuilt the engine, did CV joints, did lifters and cambelts, and the only stock fault they had was a weakness in the ignition module, which might fail after a few years of being toasted on the distributor. I carried both a spare tested module, a 7mm spanner and a little pack of white grease in the vehicle, and had another completely rebuilt distributor in the tool box at home as well. Those modules were cheap as pattern parts, around $7, so were not an issue to keep.
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