Then there was the infamous Speedwwk 2000 great JB Weld
incident..... For those that didn't hear this story..... After
the fan hit the radiator (usually in life something else hits
the fan...), I'm sitting in impound with a qualifier and a
leaky radiator. While I worked on other stuff, Dale Clay. Ken
& Rose went trick-or-treating for JB Weld in the pits. After
shaking down Les Leggitt & others for their secret stashes, we
thought we had it licked. Impound closed before we could add
water to test our work. Zero dark thirty next AM, add water,
discover a BIG leak we had missed.....What to do? the line was
forming to parade out to the start for return runs & my
radiator is taking a leak all over the salt. Well, Ken & Rose
took offf in their car and headed back to Wendover for more
JB. While the line creeped forward (I was last in line) I
could see a "no return" in my future. With 5 cars left in
line, Ken & Rose ran up with 2 tubes of quick-dry epoxy. We
slathered it all over the "holey" area, and I suited up. When
I was on deck & belted in I said "add water & lets see what
happens' Well long story short, the dang thing held water!
Return run was successful. Never did ask where in the hell
they found that stuff at 6:30 AM in booming downtown Wendover
(wasn't time) but you gotta ask; how many people would do that
for you? It would be a short list. So that's my "Bond story".
Ed
---- Original message ----
>Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 08:51:30 -0500
>From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
>Subject: That Dang Ken Bond
>To: <land-speed@autox.team.net>
>
>
So I'm hanging out this morning pulling the Rodeck outta the
car... Gotta
>pull the trans at the same time.... and to get there I had to
remove the
>belly pan... ( step pan according to the lesser informed
)...
>Everything is just rosy till I get to this one silly bolt
that I can't see
>in the cross member.... and after several attempts at socket
sizes.... I
>realize what My Hero Ken has done.... he put a dang Allen
head bolt in
>.... HMMMM Cuss Cuss.... two seconds later life is good....
>
>
Now to be fair and get to the purpose of this post..... Ken
mentioned this
>to me at the time cause we lost the bolt that went there....
and I really
>do want to thank him for taking the time and becoming
involved while we
>were out there on the salt.... Ken and Rose both were real
treats and
>honestly made Speedweek very enjoyable....
>
>
For those of you who don't know how this works... you really
can show up
>on the salt with a pair of hands and desire to be involved
and get dirty
>tired and stinky with the rest of us.... all ya got to do is
look around...
>everyone out there needs something.. and most of us are smart
enough to
>help out in some way...
>
>
Ken again Thank Rose for your time.... Sure enjoyed the hands...
>
>Keith ( oh and by the way... the finger is working good this
week... just
>in case I run across one of the lesser informed )
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