Date:         Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:34:46 -0500
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: VW quality & Mercedes FI & Japanese FI - was - Massive
              Maintenance and cost
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
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The irony was not lost on me at the time.

It was one of my better fixes, though, maybe the best of my life and
I've had some doozies. Something I had read in popular mechanics. Find
a D cell (there was one in my radio in the trunk) and jumper cables
and use the carbon rod from the battery (cut away the paper covering
in those days) hooked to the car's battery. Hook jumper cable to the
carbon rod and positive, the other side to ground. The carbon rod
would get red hot when it touched metal, and I welded/soldered the
broken plate and torn wires. Timed it by ear under the barn light at a
ranger's house and put about another hundred miles on it like that.

Jim

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Ah ha, looks like the Triumph was just giving you the old "up yours" on
> account of your passenger's father.
>
> :)
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 16-Apr-10, at 2:45 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>  Maybe it was the TR4 distributor that flew apart in the middle of a Georgia
> forest with
> Dr. Werner Von Braun's daughter in the passenger seat in the middle of
> the night on the way to Atlanta.
>
>
>