[BaadAssGremlins] Re: 82 Eagle rear end LOCKED UP

["gremlin_corvette_guy" <gremlin_corvette_guy@xxxxxxxxx>]

Best news yet---- You didn't have to waste yer money on the damn inspection sticker  


--- In BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@...> wrote:
>
> From bad to worse catagory: took my 82 Eagle wagon to go get state inspection sticker, get there & horn won't work, worked fine 
> before left house as checked everything. So pulled next door to O'Reillys, popped hood, wiggled horn relay near solenoid, horn 
> works. Took car back next door to Sticker Shop. Left with kids walked down gesser to Taqueria Cancun, ate, walked back, cars didn't 
> have new inspection decal so went inside, guy said, 'everything works except brake lights' so failed inspection, walked back next 
> door to O'Reillys, bought bulbs (even though I suspect a fuse) and went back to car, hopped in, started backing out and CLUNK car 
> locks up in place.
> 
> No forward, no reverse, rear wheels locked, and small of axle oil. The 82 Eagle has been a workhorse for me since early 1990s, and 
> 210,000 miles on it, no issues, runs fine, but rear end is shot. The guy in shop asked if possibly it was emergency brakes sticking, 
> I don't think so with that smell, much less with the metallic noise I heard in rear when it locked up.
> 
> 4 1/2 miles from home with Noah & Jacob, so called Yellow Cab. Yellow Cab is 'system down' so they not taking any calls! So called 
> United Cab, 'due to extreme high call volume we can't answer your call, goodbye' so 0 fer 2. Called Fiesta Cab, almost identical 
> message as United, on hold 5 minutes, hung up and decided to walk home.
> 
> About 87 degrees, so nice, good breeze, and walked down Eddystone, Shadow something, then Westview towards Beltway 8 which was 
> gridlocked at 5:00pm being 1/2 mile north of I-10. Stopped at Sonic boys got a slushie, I walked next door at Shell and found a $10 
> bill on floor and bought a Disani. Past the Wal Mart, down gulley past rabbit ditch (yes, wild rabbits) down Church street.
> 
> Down Brittmoore & Jacob asked if we could take a break, so sat in front of the Iglesas Mexican church. Looked at phone it was 5:40 
> and I said 'wouldn't that be cool if Paige came down about now' and hadn't finished the sentence when Noah said 'there she is!' 
> coming down Brittmoore in her 88 Eagle. so we waved, she stopped and we crawled in, I forgot how a back seat of a Eagle is next best 
> thing to birth control (not that I need any more kids) but damned small seat all crunched up. She dropped us at house, and took off 
> to icehouse at end of street as steak night so she could get a steak and a few beers.
> 
> I got in the 82 Eagle and drove back up with kids, this time with tools, and attacked the 82 Eagle from under, but first seeing if I 
> could push or pull it with the Concord, nothing that rear end is locked solid. So crawled under it and dropped driveshaft, still 
> would not move, so wired up driveshaft to exhaust pipe so wrecker could drag it home, of which it's 10:00pm now and it is being 
> loaded into the driveway. I called over 30 wreckers and all were busy, out of business or phone don't work, prices for a 4 mile tow 
> $65 up to $200. For $200 I would invite Secret Service & their Columbian lady friends. Then have $170 left over.
> 
> I'll tear into this car this weekend, I will probably part it out. I don't want to spend $400 putting another rear end into it when 
> front end is wobbly and can't go above 40mph. Engine was rebuilt at 140,000 and it is a original owner car, and have big stack of 
> records from 1992 when I bought it, this has been the official Planet Houston AMX Swap Meet Tow Car for 20 years, and the Class III 
> hitch has towed more than legally allowed by law. But I told kids 'when the front end or rear goes' that is it. Just didn't think it 
> was going to go quickly, hell, just put 8 miles on it yesterday no issues. The Sticker Shop guy told me 'it died several times' when 
> he was driving it around. Later while I was under it, the owner came out and asked if I thought it could be the brakes locked up 
> since they do check the emergency brakes. But no, this seems to have hallmark of what happened with my 81 Eagle several years ago, 
> just cluNk & lock and shot. More later.
> Eddie Stakes
> 713.464.8825
> eddiestakes@...
> www.planethoustonamx.com
>




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