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TOY: .On the road with Bouncing-Betty! :^)
Hi Toyota Folks!
Hey, I hope you are having a good Tuesday!
I have some good Toyota 4wd news! :-)
Yesterday afternoon, June 16, 2003, at approximately 5:15 pm (CST)
I drove Bouncing-Betty out of my garage for the first time since
installing her 3.0L Toyota V-6 engine.
- http://fly.hiwaay.net/~deesmith/skeletor.html
(Yes, I do have 35mm pictures of this historical event. Once they are
developed I will scan and post them on the web page with the above URL.)
On her maiden drive with the 1991 Toyota V-6 engine I drove her 5.9 miles
through my subdivision.
I wanted to keep her close to home just in case of any
unforeseen "gotcha's" that might get me. ;-)
That proved to be a wise idea, after three trips through my neighborhood= 5.9
miles, I backed her into my driveway and shut the engine off long enough
to go inside and get a bottle of water.
When I came back outside and tried to restart her, nothing! :-|
By this time the rain had started and I was really wanting to park
Bouncing-Betty back in the garage.
I gave, my neighbor, Greg a call and he came over to help.
We tried a roll start and voila, she started.
Then we carefully backed her into the garage under her own power. :-)
During the "test-drive" yesterday Greg drove her while I rode shotgun
for 2 of the 5.9 miles. We both noticed that the front leaf springs have
a slight Negative arch. This might be from their age, (19 years),
and from the added weight of the 1991 Toyota V-6 engine.
It was such an adrenaline rush to actually drive Bouncing-Betty out
of the garage and through my neighborhood yesterday afternoon!
Thank you for letting me share this achievement with you!
Happy Trails,
~ Dee
- http://fly.hiwaay.net/~deesmith/index.html
Huntsville, Alabama
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Yeah! Go job!
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Dee-
Congratulations! A few years ago I took my dad's 1971 Porsche 911s from under a tarp and tree limb with water in the cylinders to a real running automobile without much experience working on vehicles and NO experience with Porsche's. Outside of some fire/ems calls I have run, it is one of the greatest feelings ever!
Please post pics, I'd love to see them!
-dave
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From: Dee <deesmith@hiwaay.net>
Sent: 06/17/03 09:37 AM
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Hi Toyota Folks!
Hey, I hope you are having a good Tuesday!
I have some good Toyota 4wd news! :-)
Yesterday afternoon, June 16, 2003, at approximately 5:15 pm (CST)
I drove Bouncing-Betty out of my garage for the first time since
installing her 3.0L Toyota V-6 engine.
- http://fly.hiwaay.net/~deesmith/skeletor.html
(Yes, I do have 35mm pictures of this historical event. Once they are
developed I will scan and post them on the web page with the above URL.)
On her maiden drive with the 1991 Toyota V-6 engine I drove her 5.9 miles
through my subdivision.
I wanted to keep her close to home just in case of any
unforeseen "gotcha's" that might get me. ;-)
That proved to be a wise idea, after three trips through my neighborhood=
5.9
miles, I backed her into my driveway and shut the engine off long enough
to go inside and get a bottle of water.
When I came back outside and tried to restart her, nothing! :-|
By this time the rain had started and I was really wanting to park
Bouncing-Betty back in the garage.
I gave, my neighbor, Greg a call and he came over to help.
We tried a roll start and voila, she started.
Then we carefully backed her into the garage under her own power. :-)
During the "test-drive" yesterday Greg drove her while I rode shotgun
for 2 of the 5.9 miles. We both noticed that the front leaf springs have
a slight Negative arch. This might be from their age, (19 years),
and from the added weight of the 1991 Toyota V-6 engine.
It was such an adrenaline rush to actually drive Bouncing-Betty out
of the garage and through my neighborhood yesterday afternoon!
Thank you for letting me share this achievement with you!
Happy Trails,
~ Dee
- http://fly.hiwaay.net/~deesmith/index.html
Huntsville, Alabama
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