The Kindness of Strangers
The Wonder Falcon conked out while I was driving home from work today. I think that the fuel pump quit. The car had stalled on an inside left turning lane on a divided road at an intersection. I couldn't get to the side of the road without pushing the car up a slight incline and through a traffic light. I was pushing away and wondering how I was going to get it through the intersection before my strength gave out.
Then, two young guys in their early twenties came running up and got behind and starting pushing and we rolled through the intersection and I got it off to the shoulder of the road. Those guys were life savers. Before they ran back they told me "Nice car!"
The other drivers were polite and didn't start honking at me for blocking one of the turn lanes. I called AAA and a tow truck was there within five minutes and towed the car to the mechanic that I use.
Everything worked out, but man, I would have been in a pickle if those two guys hadn't helped me out.
I didn't get around to it.
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Originally Posted by
EdsFunny
" ... and now, the rest of the story."
I picked up the car from the mechanic yesterday, and yes, the fuel pump had quit. The fuel pump was about the only thing that I had not replaced. The funny part is that I had bought a new fuel pump about a month ago as a precautionary measure and just had not gotten around to installing it. Oh, well. Now I know what it is like to have a fuel pump fail. I had the new fuel pump on the front seat of the car when I left it with the mechanic. His bill read "install customer supplied fuel pump".
I had also developed a coolant leak that seemed to be coming from behind the water pump. While the mechanic had the car I asked him to make sure that the water pump mounting bolts were tight. When I picked the car up he told me that that they had been "loose all the way around". That has probably fixed the coolant leak.