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Re: scary noise at 6000rpm

To: "Andy Webster" <trunkie@hotmail.com>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: scary noise at 6000rpm
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 12:51:09 -0000charset="iso-8859-1"
Anddy,
One of the first "Laws of Mowog" states that if you throw away spares - that
will be the next item to pack up on the road car !
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From Andy Webster <trunkie at hotmail.com>
To: spridgets@autox.team.net <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: 25 January 2000 07:45
Subject: scary noise at 6000rpm


>Greetings people.
>I was driving home at 2:30 this morning , down swan st richmond, I went
>under the railway lines and was fangin' it in 2nd , to make the most of the
>echo, when SMASH, CLANG BANG etc....
>I was sure that the gearbox had exploded or something equally heavy.
>It turns out the I threw a fan blade. Luckily the radiator, bonnet are
>undamaged.
>The clamp off the top hose/thermostat housing is missing so it must have
>gotten knocked off by the fan blade. I did have a spare set of fan blades
>but I fear they ended up on the skip last big clean up....
>
>


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