HELP!!!!! (First rally story inside w/ pics)

OP your parents are having quite a week!

Yup.... Better that you owned up to it.... Do your parents know about the oil pan? Has it been looked at by someone who knows what he is looking at?

A crushed oil pump pick-up will be the end of the engine... Think you are riding the bike a long time now?

.... I ended up with Mom's Volvo.... Hee-hee!!

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JohnLane

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I squeezed my fat ass and looked under the car and nothing seems squished or messed up except my belly lol. Everything looks good. No dents, cracks, or scratches. If the oil pump pickup was damaged, wouldn't the light come on on the dash?

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I squeezed my fat ass and looked under the car and nothing seems squished or messed up except my belly lol. Everything looks good. No dents, cracks, or scratches. If the oil pump pickup was damaged, wouldn't the light come on on the dash?

The problem with the idiot lights (dash lights) is by the time they come on, it may be too late, especially with oil starvation.

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I squeezed my fat ass and looked under the car and nothing seems squished or messed up except my belly lol. Everything looks good. No dents, cracks, or scratches. If the oil pump pickup was damaged, wouldn't the light come on on the dash?

The problem with the idiot lights (dash lights) is by the time they come on, it may be too late, especially with oil starvation.

Typical On pressure is 4.5 to 6.5 psi. I have spat out no1 and No3 rod bearing and still had more than that for pressure....Normal clearance is .0015 to .002" between the bearing and the journal and the bearings are .055" thick each one or .110" total.

So instead of .0015" I had .1115" or 74 times the normal clearance...no light..

So for the next motor I got a Longarcre "early warning" switch that cam on at 20 psi...For one friend we got a 30 psi switch AND a semi-trailer running light with a 21w bulb---like brake light wattage.. It would light up the inside of the car real good, pretty hard to miss.
Got the idea off the works Quattros.

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John Vanlandingham
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However, it seems most of us recall being young and stupid. As much of a goodie goodie as I was as a teenager, I still did some pretty stupid shit in my parents cars and my own.

Well, it's great that that is YOUR experience. I never, EVER screwed with other people's stuff when I was younger. Did I break my own shit? Sure. Lots of it. NEVER my parents though. In fact, they never let me drive their vehicles period (well, when I had my learner's licence which requires an adult who owns the vehicle to be with you at all times). I never tried to "steal" their cars for an evening of screwing around, because I can't even fathom somebody who thinks they have the right to take someone else's property and wreck it for their own amusment (that is called being a worthless shit IMO).

I take serious issue with people advocating that just because you are young somehow resolves you of any responsibility, like it was an accident. He chose to take the van, end of discussion.

Let he amongst you who is without sin cast the first stone. _{Some very wise guy (too bad his alleged "followers" never can remember that command)}

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Let he amongst you who is without sin cast the first stone. _{Some very wise guy (too bad his alleged "followers" never can remember that command)}

Not all of His followers forget this

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12xalt
However, it seems most of us recall being young and stupid. As much of a goodie goodie as I was as a teenager, I still did some pretty stupid shit in my parents cars and my own.

Well, it's great that that is YOUR experience. I never, EVER screwed with other people's stuff when I was younger. Did I break my own shit? Sure. Lots of it. NEVER my parents though. In fact, they never let me drive their vehicles period (well, when I had my learner's licence which requires an adult who owns the vehicle to be with you at all times). I never tried to "steal" their cars for an evening of screwing around, because I can't even fathom somebody who thinks they have the right to take someone else's property and wreck it for their own amusment (that is called being a worthless shit IMO).

I take serious issue with people advocating that just because you are young somehow resolves you of any responsibility, like it was an accident. He chose to take the van, end of discussion.

We got a friends dads truck stuck in sill deep mud once, abandoned ship and walked back to house. In 5th grade. That was how we learned to drive. Atv's first then old trucks. Took the crash car across town to mall for first time in 6th grade.

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Grant Hughes

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john vanlandingham
Let he amongst you who is without sin cast the first stone. _{Some very wise guy (too bad his alleged "followers" never can remember that command)}

Not all of His followers forget this

But you have to agree that is a cornerstone belief and most fail to even try..

Then again some us on "the other side" understand it and TRY to follow at least that.. Try, that is.

I mean the poor kid admitted and posted things, and basically confessed it was major bluider, but the failing was in the considering and trying to conceal it..
The prang was a dumb mistake, the reflex to conceal and lie was conscious, thought out action... But as I say, the kid is in a home and a culture were honesty is evidently a variable commodity. In HIS world he's doing what he was taught to do.

Like, namaste dood.

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However, it seems most of us recall being young and stupid. As much of a goodie goodie as I was as a teenager, I still did some pretty stupid shit in my parents cars and my own.

Well, it's great that that is YOUR experience. I never, EVER screwed with other people's stuff when I was younger. Did I break my own shit? Sure. Lots of it. NEVER my parents though. In fact, they never let me drive their vehicles period (well, when I had my learner's licence which requires an adult who owns the vehicle to be with you at all times). I never tried to "steal" their cars for an evening of screwing around, because I can't even fathom somebody who thinks they have the right to take someone else's property and wreck it for their own amusment (that is called being a worthless shit IMO).

I take serious issue with people advocating that just because you are young somehow resolves you of any responsibility, like it was an accident. He chose to take the van, end of discussion.

I always had permission to have the vehicle. I didn't get the impression he did not have permission to use the vehicle because he said he lost his right to use the vehicle after he fuckered up. You can't lose something you never had.

But I certainly don't think I should get a speeding ticket in the mail every time I go over the posted limit and didn't get caught either. You fuck it up, you make it right if you break it. You fuck it up and you can't make it right and get caught, well, he learned what happened on that end.

On the one hand, stupid shit happens when you're a troubled teen hoonin' in a borrowed rig.

Little stuff, like inadvertently taking dad's 79 F250 down an ATV trail and having to move half a ton of stone wall to get cak to civilization, and then spend several hours with rubbing compound to take care of the scratches...or running out of road with the Probe GT (giggity) company car and needing to use $8.00 in quarters to get the Sippi hole out of the undercarriage...well that's just superficial stuff.

Ripping body panels off, yeah, you're gonna need to 'fess up and take the arse whipping.

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Andrew Steere
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Like, namaste dood.

You reminded me of yoga classes I took at the university. The most annoying instructor on the face of the planet. Chi, and flow, and energy. That I get. Hitting symbols and chanting, that crap threw off my concentration.

Namaste dude.

I think most of us have done something that our parents really don't need to know about. Atleast you told your folks about it. I have 2 boys learning to drive now. We are taking bets on who wrecks the truck first. Picked up a 99 Dodge xtra-cab for $250 and they are going to be sharing it. It already looks like it has gone three rounds thru a demo derby but runs like a dream and has ice cold A/C. Have told them it is better to let me know now than to find out later, things will go better for them.
I have done stupid things with the parents cars when I started to drive but I was the one fixing them too. Nor is that an excuse for me or what I did to acouple of cars before I bought my own to thrash.

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Brent Dacres
Cincinnati,Oh

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I think most of us have done something that our parents really don't need to know about. Atleast you told your folks about it. I have 2 boys learning to drive now. We are taking bets on who wrecks the truck first. Picked up a 99 Dodge xtra-cab for $250 and they are going to be sharing it. It already looks like it has gone three rounds thru a demo derby but runs like a dream and has ice cold A/C. Have told them it is better to let me know now than to find out later, things will go better for them.
I have done stupid things with the parents cars when I started to drive but I was the one fixing them too. Nor is that an excuse for me or what I did to acouple of cars before I bought my own to thrash.

I'm going with the younger of the two!
My family had a Crash Car. It was some beat up american sedan from the early 80s or late 70s I think. It was probably worth around $200 or less and was passed down through at least two generations before it finally shit the bed.
Parents that buy their kids super nice cars always amazed me. I remember throwing a soda into the open convertible of a local lawyers' son's brand new convertible in high school on the drive back from lunch.

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Grant Hughes

Cars were just something to use to haul a moto-cross bike to the track for me into my 30s... Things like driving wif my knees while making sammiches on the autobahn nach Berlin in December rain/sleet, or driving 70 from Berlin to Travemunde bei Rostock thru the old DDR (in my Austin A55 with the "big 1.5" and RHD, and being in the passing lane on a 2 lane road for 3-4 minutes at a stretch passing endless convoys of Ural's like this:


weren't nothing---the poor terrorised hitch-hiker kept pointing to the signs and saying siebsig! (or closer in the dialekt siebsich!!!) he was right! It said 70 and I was gonna do 70...

Don't know why he was so scared?

I had some sort of driver's licence and I was 17....

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John Vanlandingham
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