It was a bad day for my truck....

[Hotrod70C10]

Here's my story for today, I went out to adjust the kickdown for my turbo 350 earlier. In the process I accidently unhooked the power lead to my HEI. Well, I cranked on it a few times and pumped the gas pedal on top of the fuel that was built up from setting the kickdown. Here's where things go bad, I checked the distributor and there it is the power is dangling freely. I hooked it back up, hopped into the truck, turned the key and.................BOOOOOOM! I haven't heard an explosion that loud in my life!!! The neighbors not to mention everyone else on my street came outside to see what had just exploded. I fired it back up after it died from being flooded and guess what, It sounds like i'm running straight pipe on the passenger side. I checked under the truck and find that my good old super turbo muffler had split at the seam covering the whole lenght of the muffler. I decided to go pick another one up from the auto parts store the only thing is I had to drive it to get another muffler. The nearest parts store was closed so I went down about 2 miles to the next one which was open. I didn't know that sunday night was now considered a cruise night down the street that the parts store was on. I picked up the muffler and headed to the house. Since there were a million high school kids out on the roads there were quite a few cops. Guess what! I was stopped for my exhaust LOL!!! This time I didn't get introuble though, since I had a muffler in the bed of my truck and I told him he could check out a freshly detonated muffler under the passenger side of my truck. Not too long ago I was stopped and asked about emmisions equipment. I would imagine most of you guys remember that though. Well....I got the new muffler on after chiseling away at a spot weld on one side of the pipe. Do any of guys have a similar story? Sorry this is so long