Pubic Nuisance (1)

In June 2006, Dave bought a Ford Blazer from near Sullivan, about 30 miles south of Terre Haute. It seemed to idle well but had to be towed back to Terre Haute as it wouldn't get above 2,000 rpm. Later that week we tried everything to get it going again, checking the sensors, the timing, changing the ignition leads and so on. In the end Dave simple cut the exhaust off and it worked! What happened was that the catalytic converter was completely blocked, stopping the engine from running properly. It's a very powerful 4.3 litre engine but without the exhaust, now a bit noisy.

Dave also bought a Ford Jimmy, here's how he tested it out...

Jimmy Burnout
Frame 327 from the movie clip

If you see Dave's brother DO NOT tell him about this video
The Jimmy was meant for him!

Original MOV file - click to play, right click and "Save Target As..." to download (14.8Mb)

Original AVI file - click to play, right click and "Save Target As..." to download (51.2Mb)

The original MOV video was taken by Andy. It was converted to a AVI using RAD Video Tools and then converted to a MPG using MGI's VideoWave III. The still image was extracted using VirtualDub.

On 13th June, after getting it to start we took it for its for its run to Coal Creek. It did pretty well for a car that's just come from the streets, but there's some sort of noise coming from the front end we'll have to investigate.

This page created 18th June 2006, last modified 18th June 2006