Racing and restoration friends. I have never heard of this one happening
before:
This weekend...between watching the twins when my wife needed to go out...I did
three
way duty on vehicles: rebuilding a Rochester Quadrajet for my 86 pickup (man,
are they
ever nasty to do), changing the oil in my wife's Jeep (at least there was
something easy
to do this weekend), and pulling the dash apart on my 86 Corvette convertible
to get to
the radio wiring and amplifier relay that's behind (it's a Bose stereo).
Well, my shop isn't overwhelmed with light so I hung a halogen light right down
above
and by the windshield (on the outside about 6-8 inches away) so I could get
light down
onto the top of the back of the dash (had already pulled the dash pad). Anyone
who been
back there knows that it's a mess and the space is tight and it took me a long
time...and the halogen light heated up the windshield enough to put a big crack
in
it...I even heard it snap. (All four wheels were on the ground at the time;
the car was
definitely not flexed.) I've never seen or even heard of this before and never
considered that it could get hot enough to break glass though I know care must
be taken
with halogen lights to avoid getting burns.
So keep halogen lights away from windshields; I guess it could do the same to
rear and
side glass as well.
Question to the BSPers: I have a race next weekend; will the car pass tech
inspection
with a cracked windshield? I doubt I can get it fixed in time and so may have
to punt
the next event.
It was a rather snake bit weekend overall. After all that, I still didn't get
the radio
and speaker amplifier relay working and in fact took a step backward...now no
power at
all on the radio (yes, the fuses are all good and all cables are connected.)
I slid
the radio out while the battery was disconnected, but I never disconnected any
radio
cabling. Whatever...round two of debugging to begin...
Mark Noakes
BSP #32 86 Corvette Indy convertible
Knoxville, TN
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