[T3] six hours to nowhere :(

[Greg Merritt <gregm@vwtype3.org>]

	My daughter & I finally made it out the door here for Columbus at
about 7pm last night.  She soon fell asleep and we started making good time.

	A little while into the trip, some stuff in the back by the cooler
started squeaking and making a funny noise.  Kinda like something rubbing
against styrofoam.  Kept cruising.

	After about two hours, we pulled into a McDonald's for some chow.
Went to the back to shuffle things around to get rid of the noise... and
realized that it was coming from the *engine*.  Shit. :(  Sounded more like
little bits of metal clanking around, actually, now that I heard it from
the outside without all of the road noise.

	We were hungry, engine was hot, air temps in the upper eighties and
damn humid. (110%? ;)  We phoned home, ate dinner and cooled off.  Backed
the car up under one of the (mosquito-swamped) parking lot lights and
started to check things out.

	To make a long story short... my best guess is that one of the fan
blades has come off or is loose... or there's a piece of metal (or stone?)
crap in the fan.  Engine runs great except for the noise.
Screwdriver-probe-against-the-ear trick indicates that the noise is loudest
in the inner fan housing.  I took the boot off and tried to reach through
to feel the blades, but none of them that I could get too felt loose.

	At about 10:30pm we left McD's and headed for home. :( :( :(  So
much for the Columbus show... and my poor little 3 & 1/2 -year-old crying
"I wanted to go to Columbuso Hiiiiiiiiiio" all the way home.  ("I know
Daddy--it's a mouse in the engine!  My tiger will scare her out.")

	Got home at about quarter to 1AM.  Blah.  Sorry to those of you
who'll be looking for us this morning.  Sorry we're gonna miss the show.
Sorry I gotta rig something to get the pulley off of my autotranny Square
on the first day of my vacation... :(

-Greg
'69 & '71 Squarebacks
'63 Beetle


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