Thread: A wife can be useful..read on

I'm betting that your wife saw the other thread and when she found the screw popped it in her pocket before planting it in the tyre later..

revenge can sometimes be oh so sweet..

Surely no woman can be that Machiavellian?

Originally Posted by Sue

I'm betting that your wife saw the other thread and when she found the screw popped it in her pocket before planting it in the tyre later..

revenge can sometimes be oh so sweet..

So that's how the female mind works.........thanks for the insight

Originally Posted by spudfan

Surely no woman can be that Machiavellian?

You haven't met my wife have you...?

Wives? Here's my LR tow on trailer yarn from 8 weeks back.

(just an addition, for 'overseas viewers', this was the month that broke several heat records, Sydney's hottest day since 1932 etc. The B.O.M. says it was 41.5C at Richmond on Jan 5th which is the day we towed the Landy. I don't think it dipped under 30.C until after midnight.)

"It was very hot all day. The $1800 Falcon AU (nick 'Little Dog') is now near on 14 years of age. I did get the coolant refreshed and radiator back flushed whatever by my mechanic when I got the wagon a few months back.

"Hot trip up there to the destination towing the car trailer. We were wet backs as I had a tight fuel budget and wasn't running the A/C.

"We loaded up the Landy and left around 4.30pm.

"Little Dog handled the Putty road roller-coast hills towing this Land-Rover LWB - a donkless rolling chassis - with no real drama. Just more revs and more petrol required for the steep bits. No, there was no boiling. The bog std brakes worked well, the trailer sat steady, all of that was great.... and a relief really.

But I was to get a disappointment at about 5.30pm on Richmond road, 2km from the M7.

We lost revs just near Steggles. On the long flat section. I had to pull over as the engine cut out.

There's no shade, no trees. Its just open veggie paddocks. I stayed calm and checked cables, hoses, coolants, immobiliser alarms and warning lights that really tell you nothing. When they're good they're good but when they're bad, they're real bad... When they stop out of the blue you generally need pro or dealer help; and they could tell you its ECM or sensors or anything. Such is life for the clueless mugs like me.

We got very hot for an hour and half while the engine cooled off. Whilst getting cooked we phoned our Falcon brains trust for some clues. After a chat on the simple stuff we concluded at "just get the NRMA". Bend over and be ready for a $400 fee for a engine management module or fuel sensor or something.

I had no cash money so I phoned the wife to join the NRMA over the web back home in Canberra. Where would we be without mobile phones and google? We searched for clues about the flashing red hand warning and carefully checked out the immobiliser fob etc. Now I know more about them. Learning by the roadside in the heat and dust is not recommended.

Anyway, I got a clue. I could definitely smell a bit of petrol when we first had to pull over... and then again when I was checking for simple stuff like loose accel cables and proper spark under the bonnet.

At one time when I was under the bonnet AND by coincidence there was a relatively quiet 5 seconds between the constant noise of passing traffic -it was about 7pm by then- I heard a trickling noise. Well, well.

I had checked for leaks under the engine 2 hours before when it was all very hot under the bonnet. But we found the trickle noise was back with the tank near the back axle. The fuel line was off the filter.

Why did the rubber fuel line thingy decide, after doing the Putty road hills etc, why did it decide it was time to come off? And right when the road was flat and there was plenty of room to pull over? Providence. Rang the wife to cancel the NRMA thing. "Haven't done it yet, I've been busy".

CLASSIC.
I'm not saying anything else. Just .. classic.
We removed the rear passenger tyre, fixed the fuel hose with 2 cable ties and got going again. Hooray. Cold drinks, even happier.

But that roadside heat! Honestly I haven't felt as hot as that for a long time, since Darwin in february 2003. We were soaked, already rank by lunchtime, now we simply reeked.

There were no other travel probs with the rest of the trip and the other big hills like Hilltop on the Hume. Slow as a truck, 80kmph all the way home.

We got home and unloaded, showered, was on -not in- bed at 1am. Still very hot. This was despite a squally lighting n thunder show that had belted hru Canberra an hour before we made it home.

Costs: $100 for trailer and $115 for petrol. Still not in the NRMA...

Well done Little Dog. [pats bonnet] Good Dog!
Where's my meds...

Carzee, I can't believe nobody stopped to see if they could help. Now if had been your Mrs stranded.......

Originally Posted by jboot51

So that's how the female mind works.........thanks for the insight

Do the words "female" and "mind" really belong in the one sentence let alone together?

Spud.

I think that qualifies her for another fire side session