Croc Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Following on from my exhaust cracking activities on Saturday when I had a nice long drive through the Delaware Water Gap, I took the Seven out to see if I could hear better where the loud rattling was coming from the exhaust. Bad move - should have stayed in bed. So about 10 miles from home I notice the temp gauge heading north from its usual 80-85 to 96-100. Not good so pull over and check the engine. Ah ha....its a pin hole leak in one of the cooling hose. So I tightly wrap it to get me home and begin to baby home to replace the hose with a spare I have. Two miles further down the road and the temp guage spikes into the red. Shut it down and pulled over and checked again. This time the pipe catastrophically failed with coolant everywhere, spraying the electrics and frying them. I did not have the kit to limp me home with this so I call AAA and begin to wait for them. 45 mins later the first tow truck arrived - no gear to get me home and I was not going to let him tow me - so I wait for a flatbed. 45 mins later a second tow truck. Sent him away to await the promised flatbed - another hour away. Meantime I had stopped the car in a parking area just off a roundabout. I'm waiting under a tree next to the roundabout keeping cool. It's highly entertaining watching the incompetence of most drivers in a roundabout (do I give way to those in the roundabout? Or do I make them give way to me? Or do I just have a near miss?). Well, here I am minding my own business watching a Ford Explorer get carved up by a Honda rice cooker heap when next moment the SUV is heading straight at my tree. So I run for it and when the carnage is over there are 2 bent cars (Honda and Ford), a tree knocked over and me slightly shaken and my near miss. Luckily the tree branches just brushed the back of my Seven - no damage. The drivers, wives, extended family all exit from the vehicles and start screaming at each other. AAA truck choses that moment to arrive and I am off home - I can leave that madhouse. I decide it is not my lucky day for cars. Rustled up a few friends for a BBQ and open the beer. Before I start I decide to fix my BBQ table to stop a wobble - easy - just drill a hole and put a bolt through. Of course I have an audience of friends to make fun of me. So happily drilling away holding the table at the area where I am drilling when next moment extreme pain in my finger and hand and I cannot move my hand. Yes I drilled all the way through my finger. One friend said no problem just reverse the drill....so I did at full speed....that provided more damage and cussing from me but I was free from the table. My cry for help was answered by another buddy who is also a doctor (GP). He was useless - "Dude, thats just gross. I need another drink before I can deal with that." So BBQ delayed while I headed to the emergency room for patching. My friends just stayed at my place drinking my beer, wine and spirits. The emergency room doctor was a beacon of hope and comfort "What were you thinking? Are you F#$%@# nuts?" So he stitches/patches me up, gives me a tentanus injection. I head home for a drink or three. I then discover over the course of the next 2 hours I am allergic to tentanus injections as my left arm is now double its normal size, red, throbbing, feels heavy and extremely sensitive to any touch which causes pain. Back to the same doctor - "Not you again? What did you screw up this time? Why did you not tell me you are allergic to tetanus?" (how was I to know?) Such a reassuring bedside manner. Apparently it will take a few days for the arm to go back to normal. So get back home to find the party over (lots of empties but no BBQ). But where is the drill? Cannot find it. This morning I empty the dishwasher which some thoughtful person had loaded and put on wash for me while I was at the emergency room. Ah ha...there it is! Some @#$$%% muppet friend loaded my electric drill into a dishwasher and turned it on! I am going back to bed....the world is a safer place without me. So how was your weekend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
locost7018 Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Holy crap! Remind me not to attend any events with you! Teehee. Sorry to hear about all your troubles. I know bad things happen in three's so you have two three's in a row. So you should be safe for a while. Russ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitcat Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 You are living in a bad sit-com. And to think I felt lousy because I had to work all weekend. I feel much better already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southwind25 Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 bad weekend rants? We wanted to do a good deed and take our friend Trenia to see her family. lets start off with being in the middle of kentucky, 450 miles from home with a blown transmission (bearing failure) in our subaru wagon. towing it home would cost more than the car is worth..so.. we take it to a local transmission shop and pray it gets fixed sometime later this week. We get stuck trying to find a rental car for 1/2 a day friday, we finally find one 40 miles away It rains most the weekend so the 4th celebrations saturday are cancelled in the area we are visiting. But thats ok because Trenia is sick in bed all saturday. Mary twists her ankle down a set of steps and she ends up in bandages and ice. We go for a ride sunday on our friends dad's boat, and the kill switch breaks. but thats ok because it starts to rain again on the lake. Mary goes to take the se7en to work this morning and the battery is dead... No good deed goes unpunished!! and how was your weekend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
athens7 Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 OMG Mike!:ack: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 My day was slightly better... following a long weekend of attempted vacation (went to the mountains, but had to keep on emails, phone calls, etc...), Sunday was spent driving back. Took 6 hours on a drive that normally takes just over 4, coming back. My son threw up in the back along the way. Then I started work at 8PM again, until 2:30 in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHKflyer52 Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Holiday weekends. :ack: That is why I tend to stay close to home and off the roads, they just seem to have more things go wrong. Croc sorry to hear about your adventures but you will now always have something to laugh about for every 4th of July weekend besides fireworks and what others have done like washing your drill in the dishwasher. :flag: Still chuckling about that......:rofl::smilielol5: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderbrake Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 I have to say that my weekend was not nearly as much fun as yours. but my Monday was great, as I almost peed in my pants laughing WITH you as you related your story. My cry for help was answered by another buddy who is also a doctor (GP). He was useless - "Dude, thats just gross. I need another drink before I can deal with that." This was the highlight..... only a real buddy could come up with a line like that. :smilielol5: I hope all else goes well for you, and be aware that you are not the only one who has drilled a hole in his finger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxologist Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Mike and Robert, simply put, u got me beat. I think my year of crap luck has passed. at least i know where it landed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Croc Posted July 6, 2009 Author Share Posted July 6, 2009 Gee thanks Jon...if this is your luck you can have it back!!! Having now read Robert's disaster weekend I feel slightly better. I no longer think I was the most unlucky although my finger still hurts and its gone an interesting shade of black and my drill is destroyed. Let me find the usual painkiller - a nice whiskey. A few of those and I will be comfortably numb. :cheers: Bring on Tuesday...:seeya: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slngsht Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Strange weekend http://forums.corvetteforum.com/off-topic/2370163-bet-no-ones-4th-ended-like-mine-did.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southwind25 Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 i wish a wiskey would have helped me...but we were 10 minutes late... after the Jim Beam distillary and museum closed!! that was the last nail in the weekend coffin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondo Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Wow! I haven't had anything like that in years... though I'll make sure to let you guys know if I do as it was amusing to hear;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rzempel Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 Ouch! Until I read of your pain, I thought I had a miserable day on Saturday. But, all I did was suddenly lower my car off the jack, catching my right hand between the upper shock eye and mounting pad. That made me a bit cross-eyed while I fumbled to get the jack back into position to lift the car up so I could have my hand back. I only have a bit of bruising, but you'll probably have an interesting scar with a story to tell.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solder_guy Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 As an ER doc .. I'm appalled at the bedside manner story you tell! If that doc behaved like that at my ER he would not last! Tough day for you .. This past weekend I worked all nights .. no fireworks injuries and no deaths! Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solder_guy Posted July 6, 2009 Share Posted July 6, 2009 http://forums.corvetteforum.com/off-topic/2370163-bet-no-ones-4th-ended-like-mine-did.html :smilielol5: Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyper Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Sounds like a rough weekend. Mine may not be so bad, but my girlfriend was in the ER on Sunday in Buffalo for a really bad UTI and their bedside manner really left something to be desired. She had to wait 3 hours for a sterile cup (every hour they would come in and ask why she didn't give them a sample yet) and another 3 for some painkillers and antibiotics. I also saw a guy that was stabbed in the face waiting for over an hour before anyone touched him. All of this while the nurses joked and bitched with a nearly empty waiting room. There may be something to this socialized health-care I keep hearing about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
11Budlite Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Mike, Robert, etc - Sorry to hear about your misfortunes but thanks for entertaining us! :smilielol5: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al N. Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 All kidding aside, I would advise looking into the Raceline water rail. After exactly 3 hose clamp failures in my first 6 months of ownership, I went this route for the car that Morgan now helms. A very sano set up, IMHO, and not that expensive of an upgrade, all things considered. Many of the Birkin guys run them, due to an issue with engine ancillaries fitting in a certain frame config. Note that whenever I've mentioned the Raceline kit to the folks at RMSCI/Cat USA (I still love ya, Ben!), they've felt that the rail had issues of its own, including temp spiking and/or lack of a bypass valve (remedied by drilling a few holes in the thermostat valve) ....but other owners I've spoken to say these issues may only be a problem in race conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WestTexasS2K Posted July 7, 2009 Share Posted July 7, 2009 Man I have never had a day that bad. Maybe you need a vacation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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