So, been driving my new 86 tbird doing pizza delivery. It's incredibly good in snow.I live in a relatively rural area and some drive half a mile down dirt roads to get to houses. Well, this means driving through a ton of deep snow, making the tbird much better then the fiesta just as far as ground clearance goes. Several of the places I delivered to today, the snow was higher than the door of the car when I opened it.
We got 10" of snow and then hit a killer cold snap hitting -7°f the last two days and giant chunks of snow and ice have been building up in the cars wheel wells. Today, while driving on the highway, I hit a bump dislodging a.big chunk and it was loud, hit the floor of the car hard. When I got home I could smell gas. Crawl under it and cycle the key, gas squirting everywhere. I almost stopped at a car wash and cleaned out the wheel wells, but decided it was too cold and I was too tired. Now I get to spend all day on my day off swapping fuel lines of my cougar.
Wow you live in an incredibly harsh enivronment LOL. It's like here, only the temperate-ness is far worse. I mean, you get pretty hot summers right?
Yeah, my 83 5.0 cougar was my delivery beast for several years. I ran 14" ranger truck snow tires when I was delivering in the winter. Never got stuck.
I smashed a hole in the rusty fuel return line while struggling to get the oil filer off once. Maybe you'll get lucky and it's just the return that's broken. You can patch the return with rubber fuel hose since there isn't much pressure on it.
Yeah, average lows here hit negetives a few times a year, but its particularly cold right now. In the summer ive seen 110°f for a few days a year. Coldest ive ever been here was -12°f for about a week, tyat was when I did my t-5 swap.
Ill get it fixed, just venting.
I'll bring the beer cooler...
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Funny story, it was raining today, its 48°f right now. Everything is flooded. But warm enough to work on the car. I decided to just splice the fuel line which worked really well. $10 cause I had to buy a few fittings, but the car is fixed. Plus no more ice stuck in the wheel wells.
It's supposed to break freezing today for first time in three days... Gotta see that, was 23* last time I checked... snow is setting here and not melting...
Yup tomorrow's gonna be well into the 40's with rain. I'm sure it will clean the roads just in time for another drop and fifteen million tons of salt to be dropped on every road around here once again...