Kent2406

Well, I started the thread cause I want to go ride, but was hoping someone else could come up with the plan. I'm better at going with the plan, than creating the plan. Lol! So please, if you have an agenda, post it up. I'm sure it will be fine with me. I'm not far from the usual Bolivar meet spot but will meet anywhere. Just want to go on a nice ride to wherever. I'm game....

I'm still in! I haven't gotten a lot of riding in this year, so an 800 run would be fine with me. Whatever floats your boats!

Hey, I did a few of those moves the other night. Of course, it may or may not have been on purpose, and may or may not have involved me trying to walk down the street after only having a few drinks........

Here's what Cleveland is doing, http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/06/fake_drug_checkpoint_in_mayfie.html

Just throwing it out there! Weather is looking good and would love to go for a ride this weekend. I'm not much of a planner or organizer, so I'm hoping someone will take over and plan something out. What say you?

The only way you'll get US civilians to unite like that now days, is if you turn off cell phone service, cable tv, electricity, the internet.......................

Didn't have a Smokin Joes, but I did have the colors. A guy in Cambridge bought it from me in spring of 2000, I believe. Sure wish I still had this bike.

I don't see a problem with the shooting of the dog. Obviously he hit him with several rounds, and I couldn't just let the dog lie there wiggling like that. I'd have to put a bullet in it's head to stop the suffering.

Ah man, I remember that hair dryer feeling! When I was in Irag in 03 and we didn't have ice or anything, we would put our bottless of water in wet socks and hang them from our mirrors while driving. It would actually cool it down to an acceptable drinking temperature. We would also have our own personal built in swamp coolers. Your t-shirt under your DCU and flack jacket would be soaking wet. You'd just stick your arm out the window and let the wind go up your sleeve and your wet t-shirt would cool you down.

Classic but a goody.

Good news is, it's getting picked up in the morning and going to the garage.

And I was prepared to finish the job until I was told correctly that it was covered.

Yeah, that's understandable, but had my agent not told me it wasn't covered, I wouldn't have touched it. I couldn't just leave it sit there and do nothing.

I always have sandwich bags and a permanent marker handy when I disassemble things. Makes it alot easier to put back together.

Not that easy, gaskets have been broken, nuts and bolts show use. A good mechanic will see that someone has been doing work on it. I'm not going to try to hide the fact that I tore into it because my local agent said it would not be covered. Once he told me that, I wasn't going to just sit around and not try to fix it or find out what was wrong. I only called the 800 number after receiving the advice above.

Alright, my local agent is a dick and will be getting dropped when this is all said and done! I called Allstates 800 number and was informed that my comp will in fact cover this. Cars getting towed to the garage tomorrow. They better not say shit to me about it being torn apart because the only reason I did was because my agent said I wasn't covered!

It's an 06 Hyundai Sonata 3.3L V6. Has the factory ram air type inlet, and water sucked in through it. Tried cranking it forwards and backwards, won't budge. I have full coverage thrugh Allstate and called my local agent and he said they won't cover it because I drove into the water. He told me had it been parked and then it flooded around the car then it would be covered. Is he blowing smoke up my ass? Who should I call?

So I'm driving my car about 2 in the morning last night on a road I don't know and it's raining like crazy. Can barely see out the windshield, when all of a sudden I realize there's water across the road. I tried stopping but it was too late. Water came gushing up on the hood and the motor stops immediately. Luckly the car behind me was able to stop. They help me push my car out of the water and I try to start it. Nothing, just clicking, from the solenoid, I think. I phone a friend with a trailer and we get it home. Today I started tearing into it. Take off the air filter cover and "shit!", filter is soaking wet. Remove the filter box and tubing to the throttle body and water starts pouring out it. Only gets worst from here. So water is definitely in the motor. So I remove the surge tank on top of the intake manifold and the spark plugs. Sure enough, one cylinder is full of water. Why only one? I'm guessing it must have been in the downward motion when the water came in. The rest had a little water, but not much. At this point I still had hope, cause I knew the motor wasn't going to crank over if water was on top of a piston, cause it's not designed to compress water. So I started sucking and blowing the water out with the thinking that the motor should atleast crank over now and blow the rest of the water out. That was a no go, still won't crank. I tried rotating the motor manually with a wrench. Wouldn't budge, locked up. DAMN IT! Drained the oil to see how much water was in the bottom end. Surprisingly, no water. I just changed the oil last weekend, and it still looked new. So I dropped the oil pump pan and found a layer of milky oil in the bottom of the pan. So water did get to the bottom, but not much. And that's where I'm at. I'm thinking I have atleast one bent rod and that is what's keeping the motor from turning over. I'm not doing shit on it tomorrow, but Monday, I'm going to drop the exhaust so I can get the oil pan out and hopefully I can see what's going on. Oh yeah forgot, I can see the valves through the intake manifold and they look fine. Took the valve covers off and was able to push them down. Doesn't appear to be anything broken on the top end. If it is a bent rod, I just hope it didn't screw up the cylinder wall. So if there's any mechanics out there, I'll take any advice you have!

Oh yeah, forgot about that machine!

What have you built Ben? Any pictures or links?

I'm sure you can find someone in Reynoldsburg that'll let you blow em!

Yeah, class is for 4 & 6 cyl.

You have to run stock motor and tranny, and it definitely won't be a beast! Lol! But like I said before, this was initially for his 16 yr old son, and he was all for it at the start. But now he's got a girlfirend, and at 16, you know which head is doing all the thinking now. So it's still yet to be determined who's gonna drive the turd.

Ah, I see. That sounds more likely the situation.

I was told today that Tony Stewart is supposed to be at Wayne County 4th of July weekend. Don't know if it's true though.