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Moseso
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Another cautionary tale: Watch where you back up.
I was in a friend's yard, helping him with his old school bus. It'd been sitting all winter and had stale gas -- hard to start. We wanted to go to the parts store, so we hopped into the TR3 for a quick ride. As I backed to turn and go, I heard and felt a screechy bump. What ever it was was already over, so I figured I'd examine the damage to <span style="font-style: italic">my brand new paint</span> later. After we got the bus started, and I was ready to go, I walked behind my car and looked. All the sheet metal was fine. Couldn't see anything -- except -- the end of my tailpipe seemed about two or three inches forward of where it used to be. All seemed to run/sound right, so it took me a few days to get around to opening up the bonnet to look at that end. What I found was a reasonably bent-up head pipe. I had backed into an unnoticed curb and hit it squarely with the tailpipe, pushing it forward. Everything rear of the head pipe was fine, even the hanger bracket in the middle of the frame. The head pipe took all the crunch by kind of folding up. Lucky shot! More luck: Thinking my rusty old head pipe probably wasn't going to be a forever unit, I had availed myself of a new one, that nobody else seemed to want, on eBay last January at a very good rate. It only took about an hour, from jacking it up, to setting it back down -- to install a part I already had on hand. Don't you love happy endings?
I know you love pictures, so here's a couple shots of the damage done...
I was in a friend's yard, helping him with his old school bus. It'd been sitting all winter and had stale gas -- hard to start. We wanted to go to the parts store, so we hopped into the TR3 for a quick ride. As I backed to turn and go, I heard and felt a screechy bump. What ever it was was already over, so I figured I'd examine the damage to <span style="font-style: italic">my brand new paint</span> later. After we got the bus started, and I was ready to go, I walked behind my car and looked. All the sheet metal was fine. Couldn't see anything -- except -- the end of my tailpipe seemed about two or three inches forward of where it used to be. All seemed to run/sound right, so it took me a few days to get around to opening up the bonnet to look at that end. What I found was a reasonably bent-up head pipe. I had backed into an unnoticed curb and hit it squarely with the tailpipe, pushing it forward. Everything rear of the head pipe was fine, even the hanger bracket in the middle of the frame. The head pipe took all the crunch by kind of folding up. Lucky shot! More luck: Thinking my rusty old head pipe probably wasn't going to be a forever unit, I had availed myself of a new one, that nobody else seemed to want, on eBay last January at a very good rate. It only took about an hour, from jacking it up, to setting it back down -- to install a part I already had on hand. Don't you love happy endings?
I know you love pictures, so here's a couple shots of the damage done...
