Dumbshit, AX saga, 06/04/06, Poland Options

[J P Stein]

Since nobody else wrote about their AX experience at the ORPCA AX this last
sunday, I guess it's up to me.

I got up at Odark:30 and it was rainin'.....sigh....but I gotta haul the trailer & set the course up (with some help from my friends), so off we go leaving the shitbox warm & dry in the shop. That was about the last smart thing that I did that day.

It quit raining befre I got to PIR and about 8ish the sun actually came out & started drying things off a bit....ya'll know where this in going, right? Sure, off we go to get the effin' car....

Brit & I were in the second run grope. The course was drying nicely as the first group ran.......but there were clouds to the West coming our way.
Brit was first out in our group as the weather closed in and got the fast run to that point. It was raining lightly by the time I saddled up.Humm...now I remember why they call them slicks. Halfway thru the run, the clouds opened up.....I hab no top, windshield wipers or other modern conveniences, ya know.....and it's coming down like a cow pissing on a flat rock....a regular frog strangler....so I slither around to a very slow time taking time to hit a cone....I'm coming to the finish when I realise that when I slow down I'm really gonna get wet, so I did and I did.
Whad'da dumbshit (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

[Dave-O]

Hey, if you guys didn't break your cars you did better than I did this weekend. On the first couple runs the car was putting out huge puffs of smoke around hard corners. Parked it for the rest of the day in the hopes I could still make it home.
Turned out to be nothing serious, since the car sat in the rain so much the weeks before the oil bath air cleaner filled up with water and the combination of WOT, hard cornering, and a full mixture of oil and water in the cleaner dumped a bunch of nasty stuff in the intake (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif)

On the drive home something started rattling in the back end when I got on and off the throttle. I was hoping it was just a CV joint, but those are all fine. The drivers side output stub of the transmission was actually loose! It moves freely in and out (even though the expansion bolt is tight) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) I can only assume that something really took a shit in the differential. Now I have a couple transmissions apart on my workbench, one with a good differential and one with a good gearstack...sounds like it will work to me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)