A nightmare trip
01-13-03, 07:42 PM
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A nightmare trip
In an early thread I described how I broke down with an ignition problem late at night and in a remote county area. What followed was a night to remember.
I was still 250km from my destination, and had to persuade a good friend to drive out to pick me up, which included a ferry trip. Always by nice to friends even if they drive a Honda CRX vtec!!!
They arrived in the town at 11 o'clock, to find everything in darkness except the dim light of the local bar. She went in and found it lit by candles. Isn't this romantic!
Like bloody hell, the powers been off since mid day and the beers ******* warm. Some drunken character offered to get in her car and show where the road station was.
Finally she arrived much to my concern as how three of us coukd fit into a two seater! Then the nightmare really started. Expecting to pick up fuel fom the 24 hour station she was almost out of fuel. Now fuel pumps dont work when the powers off so she joined a band of 20-25 other stranded cars all waiting for the power to be put backon after a major storm had created destruction on the electricity system over a 160 km wide area.
By midnight still no power so the station manager who I knew slightly decided to help me out by illegally siphoning off fuel out of the inlet to the main tanks. We rigged uo a 44gal drum hand pump to a garden hose and by the light of a small torch went to work very quietly not to let the other stranded people know what was going on. We got about 20 litres into a can and quietly pored it into my friends car.
It would not start! To our horror we discovered we had poured in 20 litres of water! The delivery driver had not put the cap on the tank properly and the flash flood with the storm had filled the inlet pipe with water and it had not drained into the main tank where it would have sunk to the bottom. My friend who had been asleep in the car was not very happy.
We pushed the car over a drainage dip and got to work to ge tthe water from the EFI Honda CRX so we had to place wood across the bottom front then jack it up to drain the water out of the tank drain plug before it could do damage.
Luckily at that moment the manager remembered there was a boat out back which may have some fuel in its emergency tank. We managed to siphon out 18 litres. three was used ti flush the system and 15 into the tank.The time was now 2 in the morning.
It was 150km to the next town so be coasting as much as possible just got there after 50 km on empty. The storm had come back in with heavy lightening and rain. We finally arriving back at my friends place at 5 in the morning totally exhausted. Fortunately while having to be in the hospital at 8 o'clock no surgery was scheduled! Latter I found out power was not restored until mid day after 24 hours out of action. So in one respect we were very lucky.
The moral of the story is always carry spare fuel, be nice to your friends and on good terms with mechanics!
I was still 250km from my destination, and had to persuade a good friend to drive out to pick me up, which included a ferry trip. Always by nice to friends even if they drive a Honda CRX vtec!!!
They arrived in the town at 11 o'clock, to find everything in darkness except the dim light of the local bar. She went in and found it lit by candles. Isn't this romantic!
Like bloody hell, the powers been off since mid day and the beers ******* warm. Some drunken character offered to get in her car and show where the road station was.
Finally she arrived much to my concern as how three of us coukd fit into a two seater! Then the nightmare really started. Expecting to pick up fuel fom the 24 hour station she was almost out of fuel. Now fuel pumps dont work when the powers off so she joined a band of 20-25 other stranded cars all waiting for the power to be put backon after a major storm had created destruction on the electricity system over a 160 km wide area.
By midnight still no power so the station manager who I knew slightly decided to help me out by illegally siphoning off fuel out of the inlet to the main tanks. We rigged uo a 44gal drum hand pump to a garden hose and by the light of a small torch went to work very quietly not to let the other stranded people know what was going on. We got about 20 litres into a can and quietly pored it into my friends car.
It would not start! To our horror we discovered we had poured in 20 litres of water! The delivery driver had not put the cap on the tank properly and the flash flood with the storm had filled the inlet pipe with water and it had not drained into the main tank where it would have sunk to the bottom. My friend who had been asleep in the car was not very happy.
We pushed the car over a drainage dip and got to work to ge tthe water from the EFI Honda CRX so we had to place wood across the bottom front then jack it up to drain the water out of the tank drain plug before it could do damage.
Luckily at that moment the manager remembered there was a boat out back which may have some fuel in its emergency tank. We managed to siphon out 18 litres. three was used ti flush the system and 15 into the tank.The time was now 2 in the morning.
It was 150km to the next town so be coasting as much as possible just got there after 50 km on empty. The storm had come back in with heavy lightening and rain. We finally arriving back at my friends place at 5 in the morning totally exhausted. Fortunately while having to be in the hospital at 8 o'clock no surgery was scheduled! Latter I found out power was not restored until mid day after 24 hours out of action. So in one respect we were very lucky.
The moral of the story is always carry spare fuel, be nice to your friends and on good terms with mechanics!
Last edited by PaulFitzwarryne; 01-13-03 at 07:56 PM.
01-13-03, 09:06 PM
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well... i dunno about carrying around a jerry can of gas in your trunk. maybe a bottle of that "rescue" safety gas, anyways.
a least, in the end, all you lost was a few hours of sleep, and you got a stry you can tell for years out of it!
a least, in the end, all you lost was a few hours of sleep, and you got a stry you can tell for years out of it!
01-14-03, 02:21 AM
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Whats 'safety' rescue gas?
Other than the boy racer look, I really like the 1994 onwards CRX with the vtec engine giving 160hp stock, unfortunately it never was marketed in the USA. Its not got the character of a Gen 1 but its a practical sportscar if you are not mechanically minded.
Other than the boy racer look, I really like the 1994 onwards CRX with the vtec engine giving 160hp stock, unfortunately it never was marketed in the USA. Its not got the character of a Gen 1 but its a practical sportscar if you are not mechanically minded.
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