I'm gonna miss following this thread

Did you refer the new owner to the forum?!

 

It gave me very little problems in the short time I got to use it. Just an odd starter problem where the starter got isolated from ground by oxidation of the aluminum. I was shocked how fast that happened since I just cleaned and installed the starter only a short time ago.

I forgot to tell the owner about the forum, it all happened so quick I didn't have much thinking time. It will be interesting to see if he pops in though!

 

Sad to see it go but you gotta do what makes sense.

 

Yes it is.

But I was just thinking, my oldest is turning 11 which means she will be driving in 5 years and probably taking over my civic so I will NEED another daily driver.

 

So what the hell happened? You went from July to December and nothing in between indicating a sale or how it happened? We need some closer here and need the nitty gritty details on what led up to the sale of this beast you hunted for and found one day locally then out of a whim she's gone with the wind...

 

Closure....is what he means

 

You didn't mention the FTE forum????? Did you at least disclose to the new owner that the engine came to you in pieces.

 

Haha.

After I got the X together I had the wife drive it some, it didn't take long for her to come back and say it was to hard for her to park at work and get around. She was always nervous driving it because of the size and she mostly city drives. So after that it sat quite a bit. I used it here and there for trailers, picking up construction materials, and whatnots. I found some newer tires for it and had them installed (tires it came with were old and very bad). Then one day while the X was sitting out back a guy stopped and came up to me to talk. Turned out the guy was the father of the guy I bought the X from. He said I bought the X out from under him (jokingly) and he was curious what was all wrong with it, what I did to it, and if I would sell it to him.

Funny even though he knows exactly what I bought it for, knows the motor was in pieces, knows no one really knew what "the noise" was, still he wanted it as if X's are rare or something. Thinking quickly in my head I was adding up what I had into the X, considering what gas X's sell for, mileage, condition, everything in the short few minutes I was talking with the guy I threw out a number I thought to myself was "too high" but still somewhat close to what top dollar X's sell for. Then like I mentioned within an hour there was money in my account and the X was gone.

Strange how things work out. Maybe it will start to make noise again sometime, they will tear it apart, and sell it to me again.

 

This was an odd thing!

When I had the tires changed I found out what this noise was... Turns out it was the head (the pointy end) of a body hammer and there was NO damage to the tire. How did it get in there?

 

So I'll ask because it isn't any of my business..

You still have the 7.3L Ex, but sold the V10?

 

That wouldn't be the strangest tool to be substituted for a tire spoon that I have witnessed used on a do it yourself tire change.

 

I think I found the video of that tire change. They were using that hammer to hold the bottom side of the tire on the bead and it was sucked in. You can't quite see it, but you can tell by their reactions.



LOL!

 

I used to mount all my tires on a small fleet of commercial trucks I had (19.5 , 22.5 and 24.5 ) and used the ether method of seating the bead many, many times (on every tire I mounted).

1) that dude used waaay too much ether (obviously).

2) no need to use an extension of any kind when lighting. After you spay some in the tire, just make an ether trail across the tire and light it out on the tread or make the trail to the concrete floor and light it there like a fuse.

Amateurs !!

 

Someone asked a question on youtube about the y-pipe I built. I had to comeback and search out stuff. This thread is an interesting read. I've lived it and still forgot about some of the things I had to do with this X.