genXgts
Enthusiast
Leading a pretty hectic life as of late, moving into a new building, leaving the Viper in a garage at another building, taking on a new manager for this location to take care of the place. Thought I'd take him out for a ride in the Viper as he had been asking for a while.
Birthday on Sunday, nice day out on the lake all day, have a nice base tan kickin' now. After getting home washed up the GTS and talked to Fred who had wanted the ride for a while and thought now is the time.
We leave the place here around 11pm for a toot, car is running fine, cruise around for an hour or so, get some fuel and take it out on the expressway for a romp. Some gear runs no problem, I turn around at an exit and run thru the gears and on the shift into third it goes completely in and then makes a horrific noise, sounding like a handful of bolts in a tin can. The car is bucking in every gear, still running. Give one more shot of gas into 4th to get some speed and this problem is hard to explain, at one point the was accelerating fine in 4th slowly and then bang, the bucking and can of bolt sounds come on and the car lurches. I shut her down and coast to a stop.
Here is where it gets interesting. It's now 12:30am, the roads are empty, I am about 4 miles from my house with Fred. No tow trucks would be able to lift it without fascia damage so we PUSH the car for 4 miles, thru stop signs, lights, you name it. Few stops at any open convience stores along the way for some fluids. About a 4 hour trip in all, we did make good time and was basically at walking pace the entire time.
Interesting to note no one called the police, as several people stopped and offered help. Thought it was an odd site two younger guys in baseball hats pushing a Viper around the city. What a day, and it was my birthday no less.
Anyone offer any kind of help on the diagnosis here? Motor for sure, noise is from under the hood. All fluids look good with no cross over. Checked the belt and pulleys and things are all bit down good. Balancer pulley is still tight (the 250 lb one). Was thinking it might have been that but isn't.
Thanks for any help gang, I know the descript is vague but all I have to go on right now, what a night, I just woke up now.
Have to look at the bright side, the car is in my garage, unscathed from the incident body wise, and can be fixed on my terms under my supervision. If this happened 3 weeks ago at a 1/4 mile track or road circuit I would have been in deeper trouble hauling wise!!
Birthday on Sunday, nice day out on the lake all day, have a nice base tan kickin' now. After getting home washed up the GTS and talked to Fred who had wanted the ride for a while and thought now is the time.
We leave the place here around 11pm for a toot, car is running fine, cruise around for an hour or so, get some fuel and take it out on the expressway for a romp. Some gear runs no problem, I turn around at an exit and run thru the gears and on the shift into third it goes completely in and then makes a horrific noise, sounding like a handful of bolts in a tin can. The car is bucking in every gear, still running. Give one more shot of gas into 4th to get some speed and this problem is hard to explain, at one point the was accelerating fine in 4th slowly and then bang, the bucking and can of bolt sounds come on and the car lurches. I shut her down and coast to a stop.
Here is where it gets interesting. It's now 12:30am, the roads are empty, I am about 4 miles from my house with Fred. No tow trucks would be able to lift it without fascia damage so we PUSH the car for 4 miles, thru stop signs, lights, you name it. Few stops at any open convience stores along the way for some fluids. About a 4 hour trip in all, we did make good time and was basically at walking pace the entire time.
Interesting to note no one called the police, as several people stopped and offered help. Thought it was an odd site two younger guys in baseball hats pushing a Viper around the city. What a day, and it was my birthday no less.
Anyone offer any kind of help on the diagnosis here? Motor for sure, noise is from under the hood. All fluids look good with no cross over. Checked the belt and pulleys and things are all bit down good. Balancer pulley is still tight (the 250 lb one). Was thinking it might have been that but isn't.
Thanks for any help gang, I know the descript is vague but all I have to go on right now, what a night, I just woke up now.
Have to look at the bright side, the car is in my garage, unscathed from the incident body wise, and can be fixed on my terms under my supervision. If this happened 3 weeks ago at a 1/4 mile track or road circuit I would have been in deeper trouble hauling wise!!
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