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Replaced plugs,wires,cap and rotor on an Olds. 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 right? Fired it up and spit,pop fire out the carb,,,WTF? Forgot the Olds dist. turns CCW
I had no idea. One of these days, I'd love to have an Old's engine.
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Replaced plugs,wires,cap and rotor on an Olds. 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2 right? Fired it up and spit,pop fire out the carb,,,WTF? Forgot the Olds dist. turns CCW
I had no idea. One of these days, I'd love to have an Old's engine.
sure didHad you added new oil, too?
Lately, I've been switching between driving my Kia Forte Koup and my wife's Yukon Denali a lot. Pretty much everything iis opposite between the two vehicles. On the Kia, the steering wheel audio controls are on the left side of the steering wheel and the cruise control is on the right side. Wipers are on the right side stalk and light functions are on the left stalk. On the Yukon, cruise control is on the left side of the steering wheel and audio controls are on the right side. Wipers are on the left stalk. At least the headlight dimmer function is the same for both. It gets to be confusing going between the two so much, so I know how you feel.I have plenty I can tell in the close 40 plus years I have been wrenching on stuff, and some of you are telling your best (worse) screw ups. I don’t know if I’ve peaked yet though. That’s like asking me what the dumbest thing is that I have done. I never cease to amaze myself sometimes.
One recent one I will tell. Been having issues with the clock spring in the 07 Jeep. Nothing bad, but don’t want to pull airbag etc to change. Wife lets 2 year old grandson play in it one day. I get in it a few days later, and wipers wide open. Turn knob, wont cut off. Pull fuse, they go off. Reinstall wide open on high. Get aggravated, park it in barn. I’ll get to it eventually.
About 2 month go by, need Jeep to run to back of place, as trailer hooked to pickup, etc. go to barn, Get in. Wipers wide open, when turn the key. Get aggravated again. Pull up to house, wife jumps in, and we head down the driveway to get on the road to the back of the place when it hit me. I stop. Reach up and turn the wipers off and she falls out laughing.
All this time, i had been turning the end of the turn signal stalk, and not getting the wipers to turn off. On the Jeep, that is the headlight switch. The wipers on the Jeep is on the inside of the column, where every other vehicle has them on the turn signal lever.
My most recent DA moment, and she constantly reminds me of it
Yeah,HEI fires like the hammer of Thor. If you ever want to see something cool pull all the wires and coil cover off and turn the motor over. Blue Oyster Cult's got nothing on that light show.I got you all beat. Rebuilt the throttle body on my '89 Silverado and didn't realize that I left out a gasket. Installed it and went to start the truck and gas just poured into the engine. No big deal, I'll just pull the spark plugs and give the engine a short crank to push the gas out the spark plug holes. Turned the ignition switch for a short crank, gas comes out like expected and like not expected, poof, FIRE! This DA didn't pull the coil wire before cranking and apparently, HEI has enough voltage to spark across the several inches between the spark plug wire and whatever ground it sparked to.