Re: True Confessions, Join In

Posted by captaink on April 13, 2005 at 07:24:50 from (66.115.214.56):

In Reply to: True Confessions, Join In posted by Michael Soldan on April 12, 2005 at 15:17:51:

I have two for you guys.

A couple of weeks ago, I jumped in my maintainer and turned the key to the start position, but nothing happened. Couldn’t figure it out, batteries were up, but nothing was happening when I turned the key to the start position. Finally jumped the solenoid with a piece of wire, and it fired right up! Now to figure out why! I started tracing wires, safety switches, etc. I finally went to the parts book and started looking at wiring diagrams, parts, etc and noted that there was a start switch. It took a couple of seconds for the gray matter to kick in, but I finally remembered that there was a separate start button on the side of the cowling for the dash that actually was the START button. I crawled back in and hit the button and the old girl fired to life! Course it might have helped if I had had snow to push this winter to keep me refreshed. :>)

The other one was back when I was a lot younger. I pulled my prize car into the shop to do an oil change/tune up. Of course the first thing I did was drop the oil, and then I proceeded to pull the plugs, distributor cap, points, etc. I got the tune up almost done and got called away to do something else. I got back to the car, hooked up the timing light, jumped in and fired it up. I got out and started walking to the front of the car when I saw the drain plug lying on the floor! Yup, you guessed it; I forgot to put oil in it! :<( I shut it off, finished the oil change and crossed my fingers. No serious damage was done. The engine is taking a sabbatical right now, but had about 280,000 miles on the crank and it was still standard size.

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