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Saga of the blue 65 coupe

Sounds like you and I are having the same luck of late.

I pulled my motor to clean up the bay and replace it with a new one. If it could possibly have gone wrong with mine, it has. Hoping it will be running today finally after only four weeks.

One time I actually did have a battery literally blow up. I got in the car, turned the key and wham...it was freaky the way the shock wave hit like someone shooting a very large cal riffle.

I just dumped baking soda on it then washed that off...figured that would neutralize the acid.

I could see where an alternator might eat through it....the freak things that happen at times.
 
"nymustang" said:
Damn, that sucks. My car never had a battery hold down. I think I will be investing in one.
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Mine still has the literal strap that was on it when I bought it. I need to look into getting one of the kits from some of the various parts vendors but I keep getting sidetracked time / money wise with other more urgent items.
 
I keep getting sidetracked time / money wise with other more urgent items.
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Let your battery bounce over onto the ALT fan and get a hole chewed into it.... and like Duane, you'll have a whole new list of "other more urgent items".
 
"daveSanborn" said:
.... and we'll all be a lot safer if you just sat in your broke car and made "vroom, vroom" noises.
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Actually it's "vroom, vroom, spit, vroom, pow, vroo, vroo, vroo, tickkkkkkkkkkkkk, vroom, tickkkkkk". Get my drift? Other "urgent" items?? Screw it. Engine will look like that for a while but I highly recomment a hold down for everyone. What a dipsh-- thing to do. The problem wasn't necessarily not having the hold down (although that would have prevented it), it was the fact I didn't set it completely in the tray. Anyway, got the radiator back and filled all the fluids back up and took her down the road. Guess what? She ran pretty dang good. I've got a little "surging" going on under light acceleration so I'm gonna run it this week, see if it clears, and go from there. Thanks to Mark I know how to rebuild a carb so I won't hesitate to pull it and check it. WOT was fun again. I may post a "drove my car to work today" sometime this week. As a matter of fact, I might just video a burnout with my "lucky car" for Dave. Even when it was on 7 cylinders it made that "Wal-Mart burnout" look like a 7 year old on his Big Wheel doing a "puddle spin".
 
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