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Old May 20, 2002 | 10:47 AM
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Exclamation The Trouble with Tunnelvision

OK, My car wouldn't start and knowing her, it must be the most obscure reason. So for two days I searched for the most exotic problem from a faulty fuel pump to a fried flux capacitor. Then at the height of my frustration, a lightning bolt hits me and tells me to check the spark plugs. Sure enough, two of them were soaked with fuel. Cleaned them up and dried them, turned the key, and she fired right up! As somone once told me, think logically. DOH!
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Old May 20, 2002 | 11:14 AM
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pull the engine and check the pilot bearing. that should help your fuel delivery. also make sure you have enough headlamp fluid.
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Old May 20, 2002 | 10:58 PM
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Did that already. Have to check the ball bearings, it's all ball bearings these days.
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Old May 21, 2002 | 03:20 AM
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Yep. Those muffler bearings get seized up and your screwed!
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Old May 21, 2002 | 03:28 AM
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actually you might wanna check if the shift **** is loose, could be the answer to all your problems. even those pesky electrical gremlins
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Old May 21, 2002 | 03:31 AM
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Sounds like one of the cylinders!
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Old May 21, 2002 | 03:37 AM
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Yeah, maybe your timing chain jumped a tooth...
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Old May 21, 2002 | 08:58 AM
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Make sure you bleed out the blinker fluid lines, they are very very small, you need a 1/2mm socket to do it.
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Old May 21, 2002 | 09:02 AM
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Rotating the tires usually helps in this situation.
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Old May 21, 2002 | 09:59 AM
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I find that loud cursing and spitting is required to fix almost all cars. Then the obligitory offering of knuckle blood. After that, something else will immediately break, but only if you do not have the money to fix it.
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Old May 22, 2002 | 10:34 AM
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cracked piston?
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Old May 22, 2002 | 11:22 AM
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cam shaft?
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