so, i'm going to be driving over 100 mile's 1 way tommorow for a concert, and i'm making a pre trip checklist, so far i have- oil, water, tire psi, jack, toolbox, and concert tickets, duh, anything else i need to check before i leave? thanks!

 

Coolant and a Girl

 

ahh im sure youll be fine. its surprising what 12As can be running with

have fun!

 

chek your tire,and set of spark good loock

 

gf, check, coolant on the list.

 

btw it's korn, mudvayne, static-x, black label society, suicide silence, bury your dead. +2nd stage.

 

You should be fine with those things. I drove my FB 800 miles non stop and it still fired up and idled fine once i was done. We had to put my mom's chevy blazer in the shop after making the same trip

 

yeah, i've done it before, i just wanted to see if anyone had any extra advice.

 

electrical tape (saved my ***) and duct tape. Aaaah yep, duct tape, I broke one of the rear trailing (control) arms for the rear end. It is tubular and was snapped in half. A small piece of pipe fit inside for support, and a bunch of duct tape kept things together just fine for the drive home.

 

some good zip ties ........i use zip ties to hold up a oil cooler once

 

Ditto, good idea.

 

My buddy's waterpump failed in Ontario. Millions of people in Ontario, many many big cities and no waterpump "ANYWHERE", I had to UPS overnight my spare to him.

 

Spare alternator belt, and the right tools to change it. Such a simple thing can have you stranded. I've done a few 1600 mile+ round trips in my FB and the only problem I've ever had was a belt started to tear. Changed it out before it got worse and continued without incident. Since then I ALWAYS keep a spare belt behind the passenger seat.

 

put all the tools in a bucket. that way on the 1000 mile road trip, when NODE needs to puke he can empty the tools out and use the bucket.

if your car is halfway decent, you wont need to work on it at all.

 

spare waterpump for sure (JUST IN CASE)....i NOW keep a spare waterpump in one of the bins now ..........


1) spare alt belt
2) ELECTIRCAL TAPE
3) duct tape
4) zip ties
5) tow strap (ask me how i know)
6) spare water pump
7) small box of tools


i would carry all this for a 1600 mile trip...but since you are only doing a 200 mile round trip take spart alt belt, zip tie, elect tape, duct tape, some tools, and one gallon of water .

 

jumper cables

 

cold beverages and mind altering incense

 

AAA membership. That solves most roadside issues.

 

gotta agree there. that is if you get the 100 mile policy

 

check!

 

made it back ok. no major problems other than stop and go city trafic, leading to boiling coolant coming out of the overflow tank, concert was pretty good also (it would have been better but i was the driver) only 3 20z beers for me, at $5 a beer. what concerts have guys been too?