hey everyone, post you're absolutly FREAKY occurances with cars here. I'll set the mood with two tales...

I was driving home in my 84 pickup at a leisurly pace and i just hear this THUNK underneath the floor. I just immediatly look at the gages and i see my oil pressure dropping and i smell oil. as luck would have it i was right near my friends house. I pulled in there and got out, i noticed a trail of oil on the road leading to my truck. Sure enough i look underneath the truck and my oil filter is missing, oil is just pouring out, it wasnt even all drained out yet. I tried to find something to catch it in, but i just said screw it as my friend came out to chat.

We followed the trail of oil up the road which naturally led to the oil filter about 100 feet up the road, right where i heard the noise. now heres, the freaky part....it was undamaged. I still have this thing sitting in my house, its threads were totally fine, there was no hole at all in it, in fact it looks brand new aside from the oil that was on it.

the engine never burned or leaked oil before this. Now....how the hell did this filter come off? think about it.... If it was loose in the first place i would of been leaking oil all over the place all the time: way before it would of fallen off. If oil pressure got so great that it blew the filter off, it would of ripped the threads all up, and the threads were fine. obviously nothing hit it as it wasnt damaged, and imagine the rest of my engine would be too.

Heres the only theory i could come up with. Somehow this filter magically spun itself off at an amazing pace. I mean thats the only way. If it slowly spun off then the trail of oil would of been way longer, but it ended right where the filter was. It had to just spin itself off instantly. How on earth that happend...i have no clue.

I just pass this off as an act of ***, except i dont understand it. It wasnt like i stopped at my friends house and met my wife to be or something. i just fix everything up, drove home, and played video games for the rest of the day. The engine never did this again....

next tale of the supernatural. My friend races buick 455s and one day he was getting ready to put his gs into storage. He was working on the carb and had the aircleaner off. i was inside the car and he came to the window and told me to rev it a few times. I did, it was sounding very nice. But then on my third rev we just heard this THWAP!! after that the engine just started sputtering and sounding like a washing machine off balance. i immidiatly cut the engine and we ran over to look at it.

Everything actually looked normal on the outside. but after a few minutes my friend says "where'd the carb stud go?"

After several hours of work we discovered what happend. When he took the aircleaner off he placed the air cleaner on the engine, about 4-5 inches away from the carb. He also put the carb stud on top of the air cleaner.

By some "miracle" when i revved it, the engine created enough vacuum to suck the carb stud into the carb. I know this sounds insane.....but trust me, it happend. The stud actually made its way through the intake and down, past the valve and mostly into the cylinder. the valve must of tried to close, but the stud was partially in the way and left it open. naturally the piston came up and ended the rest of this story.

I dont know how many hours we spent trying to figure this out. But all i know is we found the carb stud and a valve smashed into the piston.

anyone got anything else. or does this sort of thing only happen to me?

 

My car used to cut out on me and die when I would be out in the middle of nowhere, when I was on a date, it was the weirdest thing. I'm married now and for some reason it never happens anymore, spooky.

 

Had my '81 Camaro for about 4 years at the time, and the horn never worked. One day for no reason the damn thing went off, and whouldn't stop. I pulled over, and unhooked it. Latter that day I hooked it back up, and it's never went off since, and it's been 14 years now.
Explain that **** -- please ?


Ron

 

Whenever I have money, my car makes it disappear.. It's the freakiest thing. Same for gas..

 

years ago, when I was in high school, some friends and I decided to play a little trick on another of our friends, we opened the hood on his renault station wagon and completely removed the coil wire from the car (had it in the back seat of my car). when my friend came out of the school to go home he got in his car and started it right up, no problem, since we never lost sight of the car after we pulled the wire we knew there was no way this could happen, but it did. we had him shut it off and told him what the deal was, we gave him the wire back, he reinstalled it and had a hell of a time getting it started again.

Go figure ????

WIERD BUT TRUE

 

HAHAHAHAHA!!

I had a '98 Ford Ranger once that would just die on me and no dealer in all of Missouri could figure it out. One day it died so I bounced it off the rev limiter for seems like 10 minutes and it sucked the entire paper air filter element in the engine. The engine was screaming along and THWUP..chug chug...

It also used to knock so bad and blow the ends of spark plugs...silly Ford. You could hear em blow up too...makes me wonder what those bits of spark plug did to the inside of the cylinder.