Automotive misadventures. We've all had them. Bare your soul. Confess your sins here:
My mother had a '63 Tempest. It was my first automotive misadventure. I was 14 and my parents went out of town. I decided to do some maintenance on the car. I thought I knew everything.
The Tempest was a very unusual American car. The first unusual thing was the 4-cylinder engine. It was a Pontiac 389 with an entire bank of cylinders missing. They simply capped off the area where the other 4 cylinders would have been.
The second odd thing was transmission/rear suspension. It was a swing-axle trans-axle. It was bascially a transmission bolted to a differential. That's where the problem came in.
Apparently, I drained the differential and overfilled the transmission with rear end dope. The rear end locked up and had to be replaced. The transmission had to be flushed four times before it operated properly. Can you say "seriously grounded"?
My mother had a '63 Tempest. It was my first automotive misadventure. I was 14 and my parents went out of town. I decided to do some maintenance on the car. I thought I knew everything.
The Tempest was a very unusual American car. The first unusual thing was the 4-cylinder engine. It was a Pontiac 389 with an entire bank of cylinders missing. They simply capped off the area where the other 4 cylinders would have been.
The second odd thing was transmission/rear suspension. It was a swing-axle trans-axle. It was bascially a transmission bolted to a differential. That's where the problem came in.
Apparently, I drained the differential and overfilled the transmission with rear end dope. The rear end locked up and had to be replaced. The transmission had to be flushed four times before it operated properly. Can you say "seriously grounded"?