RE: PH Fleet: Mazda Eunos Roadster

[Numeric]

A lady stalked into the office where we worked and said since we were affiliated to Chrysler we could dash (not the word used) well go and help start her immobile Voyager. To be fair it was an old dog (the voyager) so I did the tap the solenoid thing and then figured it must be the battery (I have precisely two bits of mechanical ability!)so dragged a wheezing Camaro (well it has a V8 see so must generate lots of electricity) over to her POS. Now I was at the fullest extent of my abilities so attached the leads, revved the Camaro and watched sparks and smoke appear from the Voyager! Since she hadn't seen my genius, mumbled something about alternators - left her to it (a gentleman till the last) and got down to the paperwork of getting the Camaro transferred as soon as possible.

Also put a Ford Escort battery (which turned out to be a coupla millimeters taller than a regular Guzzi one) into my Moto-Guzzi and invented the first electrically heated seat on a motorcycle!

Tricky thing this electricity stuff!!

[tomv1to]

RudolphsOwner said:

Last Monday afternoon, 30 minutes outside Glasgow, the best choice I have ever made in my life was to move from London to Scotland...

I did it the other way around and I can say now the worse choice I ever mad ein my life was to move from scotland to london.

[Donkey62]

Dan glad you got away with the fuse it did its job!

fyi +positive battery terminal is usually bigger than -negative to help stop you forcing the negative lead over the bigger postive terminal on the battery.

[jtopps]

Dan Trent said:

Thanks MichelV but I think I'm OK - appreciate the offer tho!

And do I ever head up north? From Stokesley - the Helmsley road is my friend! In fact, am long overdue a blast across t'moors... Sounds like I need to gatecrash a meet!

Well if you ever fancy a run out on a weekend feel free to drop me a message. The Eunos owning community on PH are brilliant and very helpful and it would be nice to share a few experiences.