Loaded my maverick up to go get floor boards welded 4 lil holes ...Stopped to get ice cream and a car show was there people was impressed with the mav...So i decided to start it up omg it shook the ground... Then busted a fuel line and caught on fire ...Flipped the grabber hood off to put it out and busted the front of the hood......Have to get new dist...Coil and rewire under hood ...Everything was new when i put the big motor in But the fuel line...I over looked it
Daaaaannng thanks for reminding me of the first thing I need to replace on mine......sorry you had that kind of luck today but it could have been worse.
But good thing it fired up and got alot of complements on it till it caught fire lol its all fixable hurt my pride more than anything
Dude that sucks!! Sorry to hear about that!! Hope you get it back on the road soon! I know what it's like to have a new engine go down so quickly. Had a freshly built 302 in my last Mav. A friend of mine and I assembled it and put it in. Started and ran like a top for about 5 minutes, then the motor blew. Found out later that my friend neglected to tell me that he "may" have dropped a carb nut down my intake... So another $1500 later I had another new engine that I assembled MYSELF. Never let friends drink and help you assemble engines lol!! Could've been much worse. Good thing you caught it quickly!
Yeah thats the way Mavericks are, well at least mine, if ya start talking good about it......something happens.
that happened to me the other day i just got my inline 6 put in and it sounded like a v8 at idle and i shut it off and some people asked me to start it and i did but after a minute the radiator over heated and started spraying hot antifreeze everywhere
Oh....hell's no! Remind me to have anyone stand back 50 feet next time I get my car started....hopefully that never happens to my POS. It has enough issues without turning into a radiator spray bomb.
hahahahahahah ya i had the hood up and it did spray pretty far still the first day i started the car sense i got three months ago
I think we all have one of these horror stories. heres mine. I just put a new cam in my engine along with new oil pump edelbrock 650 4brl carb 8 MM wires bosch platinum plugs double roller timing chain and gears push rods and lifters then fired it up sounded like a BEAST then something VERY quickly went wrong. it started back firing through the carb and stalling out on me. I couldnt figure out why. everything was in perfect time. new everything turns out I pulled a stud in the head since I neglected to change the valve springs that came in my cam kit sure felt stupid when I knew everything was together and lined up just right then got a couple of friends over to check it out and that happened my sons comet had a breakdown a block from home on its first journey out. ran out of gas then we got gas in it and couldnt get it to pick up the gas nothing was going into the carb. thought the fuel pump was out then smelled gas strong. looked and found a HUGE hole in the rubber gas line.cut the line put it back on the metal line and what do you know it started lol
omg i had that happen to me when i was 15 just got my 75 comet drove i down the block and all of a sudden it just died and after 10 min of tinkering with the carb i notest there was alot of fluid running down the street i got underneith the car and the gas line came off the tank and all 15 gallons ran down the street.
