Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Rogue Car Parts

[Peter Rychel (dino308gt4]

Great stories guys.

 

So Charles, is that rod still on the car?

 

Peter

 

Sent from Mail for Windows 10

 

 

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From: Ferrari <ferrari-bounces+dino308gt4=hotmail.com [at] ferrarilist.com> on behalf of Charles Perry <charles [at] carolinasound.com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 8:03:23 AM
To: PeterGT4
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Rogue Car Parts

 

Now that you mention it, I had one of those with my Diablo. Was doing a Ferrari Club event (maybe that cursed me?). A known weak link in the Diablo is a strangely angled rod in the back that is part of the clutch actuator. That strange angle fatigues over time and eventually breaks. Mine broke in the middle of a mountain drive. So no clutch in the middle of the mountains and nowhere to pull over. As you said, I was able to shift it a little by rev matching but it was still rough. So I left it in 2^nd and limped big girl through some really great roads until I hit the little town we were headed for. I coasted into town and into a parking space and shut it down.

 

Expected to have to tow it 200 miles back to Charleston. Luckily my local mechanic, Karl, was participating in the FCA event with two of his kids. Even more luckily, we found a former exotic car mechanic in town with an open lift and a full shop. So Karl left the group dinner, limped my car to the shop, spot welded my clutch rod back together from just eyeballing it, and got me going to where I could drive it gingerly back to Charleston. Fun story now – stressful at the time. But very grateful for Karl’s attitude. He’s a former race mechanic and his ability to improvise is legend.

 

-- Charles

 

From: Rick Moseley [mailto:ramosel [at] pacbell.net]
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 10:45 AM
To: Charles Perry
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Rogue Car Parts

 

I forget the year of the Jeep we had... but it was spring break in 1976 driving up to Badger Falls in Yosemite at night listing to ZZ Top at ear splitting volume with 2 cute girls we'd just met.  The entire gear selector came off in my hand after making the shift to 2nd.   Drove the rest of the winding mountain road up and back in 2nd.   Driving a clutch with no ability to shift is quite awkward!!    Fortunately it was a quick fix the next morning in the campsite while I watched a bear eat all our neighbors food.  

Memories.... and the things that bring them back.

Rick

 

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From: Charles Perry <charles [at] carolinasound.com>
To: Rick Moseley <ramosel [at] pacbell.net>
Cc: The FerrariList <ferrari [at] ferrarilist.com>
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 5:42 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] Rogue Car Parts

 

Ha! Great story!!

 

The 82 Volvo 240DL wagon I drove through some of high school and college was a 4-speed manual with a button-operated overdrive. The button was on top of the shift knob, so the knob was a pressure-fit rather than a screw-on because of the harness underneath it. Any time I got too enthusiastic with my shifts (rocking all 89 hp), the shift knob would pop off in my hand. Then I’d have to drive around with the nub until I could get somewhere that had needle-nosed pliers so I could re-attach the harness to the button and then put the button back on.  J

 

 

 

 

From: Ferrari [mailto:ferrari-bounces+charles=carolinasound.com [at] ferrarilist.com] On Behalf Of George
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2018 7:31 AM
To: Charles Perry
Cc: The FerrariList
Subject: Re: [Ferrari] Ferrari Digest, Vol 148, Issue 19

 

A stop light drag race story for ya....

 

At the end of the 1952 academic year, my Dad was headed from Boston to California for a hot-shot MIT-engineering-grad-to-be kind of summer job.  Driving an old 40-something Ford with a "3 on the tree" transmission, he found himself driving through Indianapolis on the evening before the 500.  As you can imagine, Indy is nothing but stop-light drag races on the night before the 500, and sure enough, some local pulls up next to Dad and offers the challenge.  Dad, being a somewhat arrogant, WASP-y, New Englander MIT student, thought, "there's no way I'm going to let this local-yocal beat me to the next light!"  So the light turns green, and they both take off.  Dad's thinking, "I cannot miss this shift to second gear!"  So he goes to make the shift, and the lever breaks right off in his hand!  Needless to say, he lost the race, and drove the rest of the trip - to CA *AND BACK* - with nothing but the nub of a shift lever on the column.  😊

 

gp

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From: Peter Rychel <dino308gt4 [at] hotmail.com>


Ahh yes, the drag races to stop lights. Never understood that...

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