40 year old parts

[BarryG]

Sat turned into a long day.
We had a great group ride from Sacramento to Berkeley Marina. The place was packed with cars mostly euros. My plan was to go on a ride into the Marin headland, I payed my toll at the SF / Bay bridge then rolled off and boom no go.

this happened

This is the adj rod from the clutch pedal to the clutch master.
I found a replacement and i will weld the broken one. Have any of you used a different adjuster?

standing behind trying to keep cars away from my car.

 

[shanon]

oh no!

that's a classic shot on hwy 80.
hope the fix goes smooth and quick.

-s

 

[rsporsche]

had a similar thing happen to me in my '76 2002. luckily it was after i had started off and was getting ready to shift into 2nd ... so i just kept driving slow into a parking space. then waited for the tow truck.

 

[BarryG]

All is good now,home and repaired.
Here is the worst part. The Caltrans tow truck driver. A swell guy :-(

He told me if i had a bumper he was obligated to "push" me as far as it took to get to a safe spot.

Not your normal tow truck, this was a Beast.

I did get to take some great pic of the east lot.

My ride home

 

[Stevehose]

So did he tow you since you are bumperless? :shock: If so where did he hook up to?

 

[BarryG]

Steve

He lifted it buy the front tires. He slid the lifter just in front of the tires and add the attachment to the back of the tire.
Up and away...

Lucky it broke where it did and not on the Bridge.

 

[verde2002]

had a similar thing happen to me in my '76 2002. luckily it was after i had started off and was getting ready to shift into 2nd ... so i just kept driving slow into a parking space. then waited for the tow truck.

The same thing broke on my 76' 2002 also a few years ago. Went to 2002AD and they wanted $20 for that used eye bolt. Back then the complete cylinder new with the bolt was only $40 so I kindly refused their amazing deal of $20 for a used 30 year old bolt that would fail sooner than later.

 

[alanmcg]

bumperless

that story is almost enough to make me go bumperless. that beast of a tow-truck pushing on my precious, fragile, little back bumper, that is directly attached to my fragile rear body panel?!?! hell no! given a choice, i think id be on the side of the road with my tools taking the bumper OFF!