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. . . but clearly I hadn't seen it all.

Today I saw it all.

A shopping cart cruising down the highway:


. . . until I discovered upon closer inspection that it was actually being trailered:


If you are going to drive a shopping cart on the highway, you can't beat a nice Type 4 engine:


I am slightly crippled in Portland with this !&*%$#*@%!!$!! Facet fuel pump failing on me. How long ago did I almost get killed on I-5 at Lake Shasta when my decade-old pump gave it up?

This Facet piece of crap is barely not yet a year old. I hate crap. It died on the bridge between Vancouver and Portland at 4:30PM in the left lane. With a dead engine I had to do a very insane three lane swerve + exit ramp with no braking to hoard momentum. I hauled into the Oregon DOT yard and discovered that my Pennslvania rain rewiring was FINE! but the pump is crap. NAPA in the early morning before khargis call.
I am getting a pricy rotary Carter pump. To hell with plastic Facet.
ColinGladToStillBeAliveAfterThatDarwinAwardAudition

Did you roll down your window and yell at him to seal his engine compartment?

I have actually seen a bigger version of that at a parade - I think it was powered by a Chevy 350.

I have a ten year old facet...but then I have a 100k GEX also. To think I thought of myself as unlucky.

chitwnvw wrote:I have a ten year old facet...but then I have a 100k GEX also. To think I thought of myself as unlucky.

There's a spare facet waiting for you in Santa Clara if you want it.

covelo wrote:

chitwnvw wrote:I have a ten year old facet...but then I have a 100k GEX also. To think I thought of myself as unlucky.

There's a spare facet waiting for you in Santa Clara if you want it.

Thanks, but not me. I am going Carter rotary. No more solenoid-actuated rubber diaphragms. NAPA Guy and I agreed that Facet quality has dropped. Turns out that the leak I had with the provided filter was not an unknown issue.
Colin

that's crazy.

Thats not the stock coil for that model. not at all.

That's great! =D>
The shopping cart that is...

I remember reading about that Lake Shasta incident too, and soon after my pump died as well. Call it Serendipity?



I bought a Carter pump and never looked back. Of course I sold the bus, but still talk to the new owner every now and then. Still runnin' like a top!

Last night I was stranded in Milwaukie, just south of Portland, due to a sudden valve cover gasket leak... I'll explain what happened at the Lab on Monday.
Anyway, my brother and I are in his bus on the search for new VCG's, driving around in the hot summer day, with not a worry in the world about the time, and pulled into Discount Import Parts only the find the doors LOCKED! DAMMIT! I continue shaking the door, like I didn't know it was locked the first time... and a nice older gentleman walks out and tells me "We're Closed, Computers are down so I can't sell you anything. Come back tomorrow."
In desperation I tell him "Oh kind sir, my bus is stranded and all I need are 2 valve cover gaskets... Could you please? I have cash!"
To which he replied "Come on in, I always take care of my people."

This is one of the MANY reasons I LOVE PORTLAND!

See you Monday?

Amskeptic wrote:

covelo wrote:

chitwnvw wrote:I have a ten year old facet...but then I have a 100k GEX also. To think I thought of myself as unlucky.

There's a spare facet waiting for you in Santa Clara if you want it.

Thanks, but not me. I am going Carter rotary. No more solenoid-actuated rubber diaphragms. NAPA Guy and I agreed that Facet quality has dropped. Turns out that the leak I had with the provided filter was not an unknown issue.
Colin

Why not go with the mechanical fuel pump that came with the bus in the first place?

Discount Import's got good people.

thanks for sharing that.

whc03grady wrote: Why not go with the mechanical fuel pump that came with the bus in the first place?

I think he has a funky case that doesn't have the mount for the mechanical pump?

chitwnvw wrote:

whc03grady wrote: Why not go with the mechanical fuel pump that came with the bus in the first place?

I think he has a funky case that doesn't have the mount for the mechanical pump?

MAF804, I love Portland too! It is 94* and sunny! Always!

You are correct, chitwnvw, I cannot use the mechanical pump because my case has not been drilled out for it.
Colin

Never had a rotary Carter pump die on me, and I've been using them for years. Never had a Facet pump fail .. but I've never used one either.

Oh my...a "big wheel" shopping cart.