Topic: Off to the shop for my '69
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Greer, SC - USA
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Vette(s): 1978 Black with Viking mural painted under hood AM/FM/CB radio, T-top and a 2013 Cyber Gray Grand Sport Coupe, 2LT for my daily driver
ok,
Ya'all are starting to scare me (I normally don't say Ya'all....I am from Minnesota). I may go out and invest in a locking gas cap. Jealousy is VERY ugly 
. When my '78 was my daily driver, I had it at work with the t-tops off. Two of my co-workers went out for a smoke. While they were standing out there, it started to rain very hard...they just laughed and decided that after they were through with two smokes, they would tell me that it was raining when they returned!!!!!! Couple for giant 
I too can't imagine what syrup would do to all those small passages
. When my '78 was my daily driver, I had it at work with the t-tops off. Two of my co-workers went out for a smoke. While they were standing out there, it started to rain very hard...they just laughed and decided that after they were through with two smokes, they would tell me that it was raining when they returned!!!!!! Couple for giant I too can't imagine what syrup would do to all those small passagesWarning: The surgeon general has declared that it is NOT unhealthy to smoke your competition AND I just discovered that my corvette is a hybred. It burns gas and rubber!
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yostusota said: Haven't heard of anyone using the syrup before but wow would that be an absolute nightmare! ! I really hope there is no engine damage.
Back home, that was the choice of most of the women that were pizzed at their men....lot easier to pour into the tank, and dint leave no tell-tale evidence. Mixes in with the fuel pretty dang well, too. I've seen stuff like that actually seize an engine up...just gum it up until it just wouldn't turn over at all. It'll go thru the filters, and not even stop up anything in the carb unless you let it sit with the stuff in there for a few days. But...running the engine down the road for a spell would suck that sticky crap right on down into the cylinders...and then start weldin stuff together....
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Joel, did you learn this by experience?????????????
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Only from the repair end, Bluebarry...only from the repair end....
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Jim, please keep us posted on the answer from Haggerty, knowing insurance companies as we do, it would be interesting to hear their response. My policy just went up 25 % here in Calif. but its so cheap I just don't count on them ever paying off on any claims. Hope I'm wrong about them.
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Vette(s): 1969 Daytona Yellow. 350 / Automatic.
Well, my '69 is back together and running.. about a grand if I'm adding all the estimates correctly. So far I have a new gas tank, new fuel pickup, new rubber fuel hoses at the steel pipe, new fuel pump, and a rebuilt carburetor.
Hagerty is sending an inspector (yesterday or mon) and will then decide if this is a covered event. Police won't take a report until the junk in the fuel system is analyzed by Hagerty.
I left the car with the shop for them to swap the straight steering column with a tele/tilt steering column I picked up a few months ago.
I'll let you know the ultimate outcome. By the way, I bought the insurance from Hagerty but my insurance cards say "Essentia Insurance Company" from Canton Massachusetts.
However it goes with the insurance, the car should finally be back on the road.
Jim
PS and no tank sticker/build sheet. This already had a replacement tank.
|UPDATED|3/31/2012 12:36:10 PM (AZT)|/UPDATED|
Hagerty is sending an inspector (yesterday or mon) and will then decide if this is a covered event. Police won't take a report until the junk in the fuel system is analyzed by Hagerty.
I left the car with the shop for them to swap the straight steering column with a tele/tilt steering column I picked up a few months ago.
I'll let you know the ultimate outcome. By the way, I bought the insurance from Hagerty but my insurance cards say "Essentia Insurance Company" from Canton Massachusetts.
However it goes with the insurance, the car should finally be back on the road.
Jim
PS and no tank sticker/build sheet. This already had a replacement tank.
|UPDATED|3/31/2012 12:36:10 PM (AZT)|/UPDATED|
Glad to hear it didn't mess up your engine! At least you got it back now (sort of)! Hope the insurance works out but at least you know what the problem was!
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Got the Vette back today! Just as it should be, except running a little rich. I still need to figure out which parts I need for the horn button.
Expecting the insurance decision tomorrow too! I'll let you know.
Expecting the insurance decision tomorrow too! I'll let you know.
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Jim,
good luck with everything.
Sorry to hear about this event.
I am going to use my locking gas cap.
I just hate the idea of having to carry around another key.
But after reading this, i'm gonna!
Good luck on the insurance, I have Haggerty also.
(Car is not on the road yet but I have been covered by them during the restoration.)
Joe
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Vette(s): 1974 vetterod, frame off rebuild,1995 lt1, 4l60e,
Wow, sorry about your luck. that makes me glad to be from a small city in Canada. If that happened to me ,I would have done somthing to deserve it. Around here the styrofoam packing peanut does a great job, the gas turns them liquid, then the air mix turns them gummy again.
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