If it weren't for bad luck.......

...I'd have no luck at all.

Oh what a day. I need to take a tire into the tire store for replacement. Car has a dead battery. Ok it's been three weeks since it's been ran put the charger on and use the old trusty blue Pinto. I drop the tire at the store and I come back home. Now I'm off to the other farm with the combine. I get there and notice a broken guard. Waiting for the boy to show up, he calls and car broke down. What did I say about an old trusty Pinto. I go see what went wrong and it's a broken timing belt. We push it off the road for retrieval in the evening, go get the car with the dead battery. Great still not up, put the BIG charger on and we have action. Go to F.C Mason for a guard no don't carry. Stop by Hofferbert, no none in stock. Go to Chesaning, how many do you what. Get back put the guard on. Cutterbar keeps plugging, broken knife. No problem I have plenty and two boxes of bolts. Look for bolts can't find either box. $%@@*** Too late, have to wait for tomorrow. Plant wheat instead. Get call from wife, state cops came by broken Pinto has to be moved by dark or it will be towed. Go retrieve car.

Dead Battery, Broken guard, Broken timing belt, Lost cutterbar bolts, Cops


I'm now hiding and waiting for the day to end.

Sorry about your day, but it is kind of funny the way you tell it now!

man ! you still got a pinto ? sheet!, love them cars , I had 4 of them
sorry about your crappy day, but happy to hear a pinto still lives
bob

Geez,and it's not even Sunday.

Im kinda with Ray on this one. I really hate to laugh at your misfortune for today but you did make it sound funny. Hopefully tomorrow is a better day. If it starts out bad just go fishin for the day lol

One more....Somewhere in there boy says there is a fuel leak at the injector pump on the JD 4320. Of course it's the line on the backside against the block. Fortunately I found a wrench and it tightened down ok

With some extended family there was at one time 13 Pintos in the family. Still have two of them one we use and one we're using for parts.

Not toooo bad sparkey!! Wednesday I had jury duty on a rape case. They went through over 130 possibles. I get home and just crash on the bed for three hours. I grit my teeth for almost six hours. Thursday I went to Hershey car show. Yea! Friday I hear something thump once in awhile under the truck. Saturday the thump is getting a whole lot wooorrrser. Take a bus that goes past my house to work Sunday. Monday I go to rent a car with my neighbor till I can get the truck checked out. I do NOT have a plain credit card and my regular one has expired cause I use the debit one. Now here is where the fun starts. Go to just 4 wheels and the lady wants my life history. My debit/ credit card is a Visa but she says it is no good. I have no pay stubs because everything is direct! Being Monday the bank is closed for Columbus day. THIS GETS BETTER. Today my neighbor takes me in again and I have EVERYTHING with me in a super market bag. Gas company, phone, electric, stock account, car registration ,car insurance, ETC. Stop at the bank and get a print out of the past month on my account and it is three sheets long. Go back to the rental place and she starts right back on it. This is not a pay stub! I'm telling her this the activity on my account and it says right here Pay check deposit! She still is going and that is when I swipped up all of my stuff and said I am going to Enterprise!!!!!!!!!!!!! Went there and about twelve minutes latter I had the keys to a 2015 Christler town and country with every single bell and whistle you can think of. What a NICE vehicle! Now I can find a newer used truck as the Explorer has 383,000 miles on it. Tomorrow I am going to make a few calls to regional managers and maybe corporate. Boy was that ever a rant! There is always someone having a better day than you! I think I need a nice big glass of wine.

If the day was twice as long I might have been able to.... Have two or three more breakdowns.

They tell me we have to go through one of those days to be able to appreciate the good ones. I don't know if I agree with that saying or not. For me a day full of small problems like yours is harder to take than a day with one big problem.

I agree

One thing about it, the timing belt is not to difficult to replace on those engines. I had a Pinto and two Fairmonts at the same time, and became quite experienced with the process. The book said to remove the crankshaft pulley but I learned to work the belt past it. It is a lot simpler than replacing the timing belt on these sidewinder engines! I enjoyed that little Pinto.

You can still drive a Pinto. Here is the evolution:

Pinto car introduced in 1971. Goes through some minor cosmetic changes over the years, and by 1980 it is decked out with huge 5mph bumpers and an available V-6 engine. So, Ford throws a frame up under it, shortens the passenger compartment, adds a pickup bed, and the Ranger is born. Still basically a Pinto pickup truck. Same parts and running gear, still a Pinto, chapter and verse. Now, they put a roof over the pickup bed, add a rear seat, and now it is a Bronco II - STILL a Pinto, chapter and verse.
Over the years, the 2-liter engine becomes a 2.3, the V-6 gets a few refinements like hydraulic lifters, timing chain (as opposed to gears), and a bit more displacement.
One of the big shortcomings of the Bronco II is the lack of 2 more doors and a bit more engine. Upped the 2.9 to a 4.0 and added a couple of doors. The Explorer is born. The evolutionary path from the "lowly" Pinto is traceable back to 1971. To make it even better, the transmission used in the original Pinto was the C-3. The later Ranger, Bronco II, and Explorer used an extended version of that very transmission know as the A4LD and later the 4R44e, and finally the 5R55e.
So, today, I still enjoy driving my Pinto SUV. Call it what you like, but I can trace the parts from modern Explorers, Rangers, and Aerostars, all the way back to the Pinto.

I also have a boat with a Pinto 2.3 engine in it

That's life, it happens to all of us, believe iv had more than my share of then the last 18 months!

Did you know 1.72"/1.500 SBC valves fit in a Pinto head?
It's a LOT of work but can be done.
Really wakes that thing up ~grinz~

Don't forget Mercury Bobcat and Mustang II, both Pinto's under the skin!

So let me ask you the obvious. If good luck is a form of luck, and bad luck is a form of luck...then in the overall scheme of things, you were "very" lucky today?

Mark

And just think it was not caused by you trying to work on a Sunday.

At least I think you still had your health, if you would have lost that it would have been worse. Mine changed in an instant when a car did not slow down for a stop sign. As I was told marerial things can be replaced, health cannot be.

(quoted from post at 20:43:57 10/13/15) So let me ask you the obvious. If good luck is a form of luck, and bad luck is a form of luck...then in the overall scheme of things, you were "very" lucky today?

Mark

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The guy has a Pinto? How freaking lucky can he be?? :shock:

:lol:

if you farm you will have days like this

Are you parked in a Syrian refugee camp?

(quoted from post at 07:55:28 10/14/15) Are you parked in a Syrian refugee camp?

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8) Yeah, it is relative. I was just thinking that there must be a good country song in this thread !! :lol:

HAhahahahah ! Good point. Any day you make it home in a Pinto is a good day!

You can put 1.94 Chevrolet valve in a pinto head. My mustang II out ran everything in its class at our local asphalt track.
Ron