Murphy's law strikes again

Repeat after me...........

LEAVE. IT. ALONE.

 

Where were 5 yrs ago when I installed the r & p. Slowly I am learning what you preach

 

I have always said that a collision on a car affects everything with the car. Although I would never have thought a collision on a rear corner would have physically affected the engine, I won't ever say it's outside the realm of possibility.
As for what happened with the order, I would've torn them a new one for screwing up so badly.

 

Only on Unibodies. Full-framed vehicles had at least some advantages over vehicles that had the entire collision energy distributed more equal

 

I may have put the cart before the horse you see I had put a brand new motor into the car drove it for 500 miles change the oil and headed on my way to the 2014 hot Rod power tour around the north Georgia/South Carolina line the car started to run funny by the time I hit the state line it barely ran and I got towed into a gas station at that point we needed to order parts and I had to stay At a hotel overnight this is when my car got hit

 

Ah, that's right, I forgot about that; the valve adjustment was needed before the collision?

Ivy: I had the timing set on the engine in my '74 Ranchero Squire jump a tooth after getting rear-ended by a Ford Escort. A week later, it jumped another tooth and stopped running. So I would say a full-frame car still has the potential of what I wrote, simply because the inertial reaction will be the same throughout the entire car. But, there's a guy who works at the IIHS, who is a member of the Ranchero forum; I'll ask him about it, and get back to you.

 

Maybe, the timing chain was baggy. I'm glad that my timing belt has a tensioner.
Why is it that you're always getting into wrecks? Almost every other of your posts is about getting into a wreck of some kind. Were you once a stunt driver?

 

Um, this accident was, oh, more than fifteen years ago...compared to the other "average"driver, I've been in less than ten accidents since I first got behind the wheel back in '81, and none so serious as to require emergency hospitalization. In my book, my attention to driving has basically kept me from the ICU, let alone the morgue, and for the one time in my driving I looked at something for only one second, it was a non-injury collision that didn't even deploy my airbags.

 

She must have looked good and scantily clothed

 

it is hard to figure out what happened since I drove it 500 miles and it ran great. I changed the oil packed and left for the power tour . drove fine for about 800 miles then it started to run rich and eventually died. many things were changed but it never seemed to run right as it couldn't even warm up to 190 degress to tell the computer it was up to temp. the only thing which seemed to make the difference was adjusting the valves .

 

Running cold sounds like retarded valve timing, as if it had jumped a tooth

 

Oh dear. Another one of my politically incorrect definitions has slipped out again. I guess, I should have described the symptom as having its roots resulting from valve timing of lower intelligence quotient. Now that I've explained it in this manner, I can be assured that hooded and masked groups are likely not to torch my car and spray messages on the wall of the building I dwell in

That's because the Escort set full impact on your frame. There are both advantages and disadvantages for both full-framed and Unibody constructions. In certain types of collisions, one is better off in a full-framed vehicle than in a Unibody, simply because the Unibody will devide collision energy to the entire vehicle, which would endanger passengers, especially the driver, because of the steering wheel.
On a full-framed vehicle, passengers are more likely not to survive a side collision, if the point of impact isn't shared with the vehicle's frame

 

All I know, is that I drove away and that Escort (a '97) was towed. Most of the impact on it was the driver's corner and on the Ranchero was the passenger corner. Also, I bonked my hard head on the backlight, but it didn't shatter, luckily for me.

 

Well, since your head didn't shatter on that one, I'd hate to see what the backlight looked like