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OK. Here in spokane its getting about 9 degrees at night. Just above freezing during the day. So today I pulled the "Luv Muscle" out of the garage and took it to the Gym for a final outing. I'm on my way home and this guy just ahead is eyeing my stuff in his mirror, and casually slowing down to get a peak, I think. Knowing that I'm going to park it, and put it up for the winter, I simoultaniously pulled the tranny into 2nd and mashed the petal. The N20 was - of course- Armed as usual. So as I blew ahead a few feet and shut down to catch an upcoming stop sign, I hear Clang, clang, tingtingting....
Well I saw in my mirror a bolt go rolling off to the curb. To proud to act like it ACTUALLY came from MY rig, I kept going. The truck was still running and in tact! I looked over at this dude next to me, who waited till I looked at him to start laughing.
What-freakin-ever! Turned out it was a bolt that held part of my alternator to the block. She held till I got home. I went back Immediately and could not find it.
Hope you all can have a laugh at this. Any similar stories of embarrasment?
Also tell me this. If you drive a stocker you may not appreciate this, but after you totaly tubb, weld, cut, hack, bent, improv, swap... all the Isuzu parts out of your truck for different ones, the Adrenaline rush involved in just going around the block is unreal due to the fact that I'm not 100% nothing will go wrong. Does this happen to anyone. Just the thought of that one little oversight, the gas line thats about to burst, the wire that is going to fall off and ground out, that one weld that will break and drop 1/4 of your truck to drag on the pavement that will leave you pushing in traffic. hey, screw skydivng, what a RUSH!

"G"

The one I remember is, when I first got the V-6 in. I was heading down to the shop I use to work at to get it tuned and dialed in to run better. When I kind of did a half butt job on the throttle cable at the gas peddle. Going down a really busy street here in Denver the cable comes undone from the peddle of course I was in the middle lane of 3. I had to put on the hazards and crawl under my dash in the middle of traffic to get the cable reattached! It though for sure, I was going to get killed! Then after getting that back on and on my way, the truck dies. I get it started and it dies again! I figure I better head back and a couple of blocks later it dies for good! I find out the hard way that there is a stone fuel filter in the carb?? I had no idea at the time and it was plugged! So I had to have my buddy tow it home!
I know what you mean about waiting for things to break! Everytime I hear a weird noise or strange vibration, I turn down the radio for a few minutes until I feel the coast is clear. The funny thing is my truck broke down more with the stock drivetrain!

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My luv is still relativly stock, i just have an intake and a carb (400cfm webber)on mine. But anyway the back roads around spokane are realy getting slick and more fun in my opinion (im a big rally racing nut) and when i mash the pedal in my truck in 2nd and going around corners you should see how side ways i can get it. Power sliding is fun...

i've had more than a couple embarrissing moments.the newest is when i got my truck back on the road from the head gasket.i was heading to work on the buseiest road in my town.she was running great until she died.well i kept turning her over thinking she got water up the carb.nothing.i ran the battery completly dry so i got out to start to push,uphill on top of it.i noticed there were about 30 cars waiting for me to move. it snow that morning so i had pretty much no chance to get her the move.after pushing for about 15 mins.i fianally got her on the side of the road .had to call my work to come get me.i'm always bragging at my work about the truck.so when i fianally got to work i had to hear everybody's sh*t.a couple guys at work tell me to burn it and that just gave them more power to say it more. this is coming from a bunch of guys that buy a new car every 4 months.screw them she'll be around till the day i die.

Well I have to toss in my two cents!! I have to agree that every time I drive my poor little baby I dont have the luxury of a Radio! lol So I hear every rattle bump grind and so on but my favorite thing is when I get some guy in a ricer who thinks he is lower than me until I hit that one bump that sends sparks flying Athough I have to admit at night it's cool as hell but I know it's murder on my frame. So I have decided to put a skid plate on it.

one i remeber the best is,
right after i removed my rear bumper, i was leaving work at the mall, couple buddies of mine was outside as i was leavin. so i jump in the truck, rev it like billy badass, toss it in reverse, peel out in reverse, right over top of a Kmart shopping cart!!! i was like WTF WAS THAT!!!

well after i seen that i didnt KILL anyone, and since it was still stuck under the back of my truck (bent the piss outta my license plat too ) i decided to do a little sparkin myself dragged it 1/2 way across the lot b4 it came out

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Cool thread.

About two months ago I was heading home at night, cruising along and the signal light turned yellow. Well, it was just an excuse to get aggro for me so I pulled it down a gear and mashed the pedal. Right as I'm going through the intersection I hear clang, ting, pamp, clang, and then something hit the floorboard so hard I thought it came though into the cab.

I immediately let off thinking I had just grenaded the trans or something. As I'm coasting along, all it quiet (except the motor). I give here a rev, all good. So I cruise it home.

The next morning I went out and jacked up the truck and found a missing collector bolt. I kinda thought that was it, but I kinda didn't. So I kept looking around. Then I found a REAL problem. Whether the noise was the header bolt or the next thing I found, I don't know, but I noticed that my right front shock was angled funny.

I pulled off the tire and found out that the bottom bolt was missing and the shock was wedged in between the a-arm and the ball joint. As I'm fixing that, I notice that my upper a-arm is completely lose and all the alignment shims are missing. I was like "shit".

So it actually was lucky that I heard that noise because I would have never looked under the truck otherwise. I might have had a catastrophic event if that upper a-arm had come completely lose.

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Back when I was a kid I borrowed my dad's Nova on a Saturday night to go cruising. It was a 71 with a 307 and a powerglide. It had two glass-packs that exited under the doors so it sounded kinda cool.

Anyway, I drove by a friends house on the way home. He was out in his garage so I stopped in front of his house and started power-braking. After about 10 seconds I let off the brake and started to coast down the street. Of course, by this time, smoke is billowing off the right rear tire. Well, apparently the right rear tire didn't like that, and shortly after I let off the brake the tire blew up.

Of couse, my friend starts rolling laughing. Rather than listen to his BS I just coasted away from his house on the flat tire. I drove it about 3 blocks to my house and parked it thinking that I'd get up at the crack of dawn and change the tire so my dad wouldn't find out what happened.

Well, I overslept. I woke up to my dad poking me yellling "wake up asshole". It wasn't pretty after that...

Let's just say that I didn't get to drive that car much after that. In fact, that's kinda how I ended up with the LUV truck. I wanted the Nova but my dad told me to drive the LUV until I could learn to drive "normal". Eventually I just decided to keep the LUV instead because it kinda grew on me.

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On second thought, I don't see how that could have been anything short of catastrophic.

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Can you tell I'm bored?

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Well here's my story...drove my luv with the stock 4cyl for quite awhile, cracked a ring one day, spent about a month slowly rebuilding the motor(kinda half-asssed it), I didn't replace the timing chain or tensioner and after I got her back together it ran fine for a couple weeks. Then the noise started and right away you could tell it was the chain, it was really loud, loud enough that everywhere u go people will be staring at u. I said screw it and i drove it anyways, I had decent stereo with a couple tens behind the seat (enough to drown out the noise ). Lasted about 6 months. Then one day as I'm coming home from the computer store, stereo cranked, all I hear is cling,cling,cling,cling, sounds like metal flying everywhere, it was louder than the radio. Needless to say the truck was dead, so I coasted into the nearest parking lot, popped the hood, then with a tear in my eye I see whats left, a hole about the size of a softball in the timing cover and a piece of chain hanging out. Kinda of crappy day after that, but thats what eventually led to the V8 swap, so I don't regret half-assin the 4 banger. Haven't typed this much since high-school

This story wasnt embarrising, its just something that happened to me long ago. Late one night my dog starts barking and wont stop, so i tell him to shut up and lay down. the next morning i awake to no truck, its been stolen. Three days later i get the call that my trucks been recovered 30 miles away. I arrive to find my truck stripped of its wheels, interior, stereo and contents. the wheels that i purchased for the trip home where to big but it was all that i could afford after my $300 dollar impound and towing fees. The wheels cost me $250. So i,m driving my raped little truck home scraping and rubbing allthe way with people staring at me, who cares,i got my truck back. When i get home i park it in my garage and go to close my garage door, my "F"ing garage door falls off on my luv denting the piss out of it. I just laughed hysterically, i was almost mental. Anyway, just thought i share that story. P.s. Dont store your mag key in your glovebox like i know some dumbass did. Bryan

these moment arent the most embasing things but any way. I go out to the orv park whith my buddies alot (smallest truck besides me is a 3/4ton chev whith a 12" lift) so i say to my friend joey whos in the truck whith my, "lets show them why low trucks are better!". So i put it in 2wheel and romp on it in the sand (i watched the video this week and i was thouwing 10' rooster tails!) and i throw the truck sidways, Then it goes up on 2 wheels and sand floods the intirior. Well thats one tire thats dead, hit a hole and rolled it off the bead (not too bad just looks realy cool on video!)

Here is another moment, this one is a moment of "sick" glory.

In Seattle every year they would put on the 'super chevy show' as SIR. me and the Monroe Muscle gang were wrenching on our cars ( a built v8 nova and a big block chevelle). We were running a predator on an early setup of my intake and cam. It was pretty wild. My truck was built after another luv in town that ran the stock rearend. His auto shop would sponsor the races so he ran often. the rearend held for years. Well, amid the chevy show hype, we were takin my truck for a spin. Lined it up on a back road, punched it- and when I grabbed 2nd and the rearend dropped(you know, dumps the rear for that launching traction) BAM! smoked the rear end. That set the mood for the whole weekend. Ended up with a ford nine and tubbed. What a good feeling when you find the weak link at full throttle.

ok this happened not to long ago little less than a year, i go out side bored outta my mind so i decide to go for a spin (didn't have a luv yet but was in the search hot and heavy) well i had an 89 long wide bed chevy and an 87 long wide bed, climbed in the 87 and deciuded nah beings it had a damn v6 in it so i hop in the 89. driving along. at the time i lived in a fairly big city maybe 150,000. anyway the 89 is somewhat jacked up in the rearend had overload springs for hauling and what not but gave it a pretty sweet look. so i pull up to a stop light sitting there waiuting and i feel a pretty hard hit at the rear. so im sittin here looking around trying to figure out whats goin on. look in the rearview mirror. still nothing. then i see a dude. so i climb out. and talkin to him hes freakin out. im pissed off. and alls it did to mine was put 2 perfect bends on the bumper nothing major. but his hood looks like one of those old sardine cans with the key that u roll up the lid with. so it rocks on and by now were on the side of the road and i told him no biggy. no major damage done to mine, but his was screwed up bad. i asked him if he wants to call the cops. nah he dont so we left it at that. was his fault and i was needing a new bumper anyway. just hadn't got around to it.

not embarassing but kinda amusing wish i had a picture of the hood.

~Es~

i had a truck stolen also, went out in the moring and found no truck ,called my dad {hey dad did you use my truck} he said {what are you talking about}anyway about two weeks later we get a call from the cops ,come get your truck ,so i send my wife ,she calls me laughing ,she says that they cut the top off ,convertible! rite-on i said i always wanted a convertible .drove that truck for a year .sold it to a 40yr old with a wife and two kids,he said he always wanted a convertible too -go figuer

good thread.....I got a bunch......I won't tell all of them though.....
lets see.......
ok one time we went to autozone to get parts for my buddies Monza and as we are leaving, going downhill to the redlight, I hear a big clang and a rolling noise and the truck got louder. turns out that the muffler let loose and rolled down the hill....I just left it laying on the road and drove to pep boyz and got a new muffler.

a few months after I got my truck and was driving it (when I was 16) it had a bad vibration at around 55mph....well this went on for a few weeks until I was taking off from a redlight and BAAM! there went the driveshaft and we were walking to get the Trailer.

After I got the V6 put in and was leaving high school I was doing a massive burnout and didn't slow down enough for the 90 degree curve in the road around the school....needless to say the truck slid into the curb and I had to drive around with black wheels on the front because it ruined the chrome western wheel on the right side. due to the different tires it pulled REAL bad to one side, so I had to run both old front wheels.

another burnout story with suprising results. this was with the V6. I was boiling the tires off in first gear showing off for my cousins one New years DAY.......as I hit second gear it caught traction.....the driveline didn't like that ONE bit!
I broke the rear end, driveshaft U-joint AND 5-speed transmission..... a bit of a push and I was back to the grandfathers. The S-10 rear from the junk-yard, new driveshaft to fit the S-10 rear and tranny from junkyard too.
Actually it was kind of cool to say that my V6 broke all that in one traction grabbing smAcKdOWn!

I have more stories, but I am sure this is long enough already!

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Hey luv 4 me,

if your busting those things was anything like the day I chunked my rearend- I bet you had that sick, proud, glory smile that comes with bustin somethin due to excess HP!

My wife could not believe that we broke something and we were all totally pumped.

If you "build" your v8 strong, back it with a strong drivetrain. It WILL find another weak link.

"G"

How many people have blown out there mufflers when making the engine backfire by turning there ignition switch off and back on? I used to do that with the stock setup. It would catch people off guard. I was on leave in El Paso Tx on my way home to Cove. It ripped a hole down the seam of the muffler. I had another 3000 mi to go before i would end up back in Ca.

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