Tuesday, April 24th
Mike got straight to work on trying to get the car to run, since we were suppose to leave for St George later that day. He tried numerous things and ruled out everything,but then decided that there must have been bad gas in the used gas tank we had put in the car. So he pulled the gas tank. We couldn't find anywhere that had a gas tank in stock so we talked to Mustang Ranch which had one they said we could use if we bought a replacement for them when we got home. So Mike and switched that out. They put new gas in but the car was still having problems so finally it was decided we would just trailer the car. Mike's parents were nice enough to trailer my car, even though it meant the Pace Car staying home.
Mike putting the car on the trailer.
We really tried everything we could think of on the car. We even stopped that evening in Springville and tried one last ditch effort to get it running but to no avail. So the next day (the 25th) we ended up taking the car to a mechanic shop in St George. $200 later we at least had an answer but no solution. So everything checked out ok so it has been deemed that the sludge from the bad gas is making the valves stick, therefore the car is backfiring. Mike did however get to drive the car down the street before it died and had to be towed back to the shop. It was frustrating not being able to get it run, but we decided that we could not put anymore money into the car and Mike would just fix it when we got home.
This is the car while at the shop.
I realized I had not gotten a good picture of the car so I took a picture while the car was in the parking lot of the shop.
It still blows my mind how good the car turned out. I Love it!
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