DrtyFrank
03-15-2003, 11:15 PM
Not really a story...
Left Oklahoma City on October 21st for the 35+ hour drive to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 3 days later, I've made it all the way to Bangor, Maine with no problem(didn't even get shot at when I spent the night in Virginia. Stupid snipers). Freakin' thing ran like a top all the way there, and I'm estimating gas mileage at somewhere around 19 to 22 mpg at 70mph. Woke up Thursday morning to a grinding sound under the hood and a green puddle under the radiator. A/C pulley wheel ate it's own bearings, radiator split and cracked all around the top left corner, and to top it off, my water pump was leaking pretty good, too. $400 bucks later, all that was replaced (radiator too) and I was back on the road by 11a.m. Anyway, kudos to the guys and gals at Whitcomb's Auto in Brewer, Maine for a good job and for shuffling around some other customers to get me on the road again. So, in short, '95 Broncos aren't just great for 'wheelin', they're pretty good at long-hauls, too. Well, mine was... for the most part. Considering that at the time I had 114k miles on it, and 4k just from the 3 days prior to the "problems".
P.S. If you're ever in Brewer, Maine, don't spend the night at the Comfort Inn. Paper-thin walls, roach motels everywhere, and I'm pretty sure it used to be a pretty run-down apartment complex first. :???:
Left Oklahoma City on October 21st for the 35+ hour drive to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. 3 days later, I've made it all the way to Bangor, Maine with no problem(didn't even get shot at when I spent the night in Virginia. Stupid snipers). Freakin' thing ran like a top all the way there, and I'm estimating gas mileage at somewhere around 19 to 22 mpg at 70mph. Woke up Thursday morning to a grinding sound under the hood and a green puddle under the radiator. A/C pulley wheel ate it's own bearings, radiator split and cracked all around the top left corner, and to top it off, my water pump was leaking pretty good, too. $400 bucks later, all that was replaced (radiator too) and I was back on the road by 11a.m. Anyway, kudos to the guys and gals at Whitcomb's Auto in Brewer, Maine for a good job and for shuffling around some other customers to get me on the road again. So, in short, '95 Broncos aren't just great for 'wheelin', they're pretty good at long-hauls, too. Well, mine was... for the most part. Considering that at the time I had 114k miles on it, and 4k just from the 3 days prior to the "problems".
P.S. If you're ever in Brewer, Maine, don't spend the night at the Comfort Inn. Paper-thin walls, roach motels everywhere, and I'm pretty sure it used to be a pretty run-down apartment complex first. :???: