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Re: a.m. ride

To: "fred thomas" <vafred@erols.com>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: a.m. ride
From: " Philip Smith" <smith007@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 19:02:17 -0400charset="iso-8859-1"
Would you ship me one of those sadwiches, with mustard please, I'll pay for
shipping. Thanks.
Phil Smith
TR6
-----Original Message-----
From: fred thomas <vafred@erols.com>
To: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, May 17, 1999 4:00 PM
Subject: a.m. ride


>
>About 10 a.m. this day, I decided to take a little ride down to the
>delli for some good "Kosher" sandwich makings, pulled up in front of the
>shop and a nice space was waiting me, made my purchase, started to
>back-up to leave and there was a very big puddle of what appeared to be
>water in my parking space, get out to check on this, and sure enough its
>from my car as I can see the additive "No-Rosion" (pinkish in color)
>laying on the ground. Raise the hood, lots of water under side of the
>hood as well as the hood hold down spring, but no leak showing. I look
>for about 2 mins. and find nothing, start the car with the hood still up
>and very nice water fountain spraying from the top radiator hose, I
>locate a small pin hole on the very top, so 4 miles back home and get a
>spare hose from my travel kit, now this hose was installed 2 years ago
>when I replaced the radiator. As I start to unscrew the front clamp I
>discovered I had installed it with the front clip off and the hose clamp
>facing "UP", no way will a screw driver fit in this small area, so I get
>a 1/4" socket and screw driver head and start feelings where no eyes can
>see for the slot in the screw head, 1 hour and 30 minutes later the job
>is complete, the clamp is now facing 9:00 so it can be removed nicely in
>the future, now for my nice deli sandwich, 2 slices of fresh dark bread,
>a large pile of peppered corned beef and then, yes, you guessed it, I
>have no mustard.


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