DeTomaso Mailing List: February 98, Message #155
     



From: 	MikeLDrew@aol.com

Subject: Re: Parts hauling

Date: 	Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:12:01 +0000



John wrote:



>with a decent tank bag you CAN haul pantera parts, right Jack, Mike?



>>>HAH!  When I was just a pup, and had owned my Pantera for about two weeks,

I (myself, actually, not smart enough to realize I had no idea what I was

doing and shouldn't have been let anywhere NEAR the underside of a Pantera

without adult supervision) completely overhauled the rear bearings.  Jacked

the rear end, pulled the right hub carrier no sweat, then tried to pull the

left one and the lower shaft was seized onto the hub carrier.  So eventually

I pulled the whole lower control arm and hub carrier together as a unit.



Took all this stuff (complete, with brake discs and everything), loaded it

into a big duffel bag, then managed to bungee-cord the thing to the back of

my motorcycle (since the Pantera was, at that time, my only car!)  Somebody

once told me the complete hub ass'y weighs 90 lbs.  So I've got two hub

ass'ys, plus this big a-arm sticking out the side, strapped onto the back of

my GPz1100, maybe 200 lbs.  I wobbled and weaved across town to the machine

shop, they pressed everything apart, I realized I needed one new axle, so

loaded up all my stuff and rode back home.



After driving with a friend (in a car) down to Jack DeRyke's house that

weekend, and a complete circus as we tried to get the a-arm and hub apart

(broke the a-arm in the process!), the next week I loaded up my bare hub

carriers, new axles and bearings on my motorcycle again and rode back to the

machine shop to have everything pressed together, than rode back to the car

and installed them.



You'd be amazed how much junk you can pack on a bike if you're careful, and

not smart enough to figure out you really should be driving.  How about SIX

24-pack cases of Coca-cola? (Hey, it was on sale!)  Or a pair of Cleveland

cylinder heads?  Or a complete Macintosh computer (and printer!)



'Course, I went and bought a beater Scirocco a few years later, and now haul

everything in that.  Well, mostly...:>)



Mike