At 08:58 PM 11/5/98 -0500, Bulley-Hewlett & Associates wrote: >David, > >Oh, oh, oh, I've got it!!! You have a MOUNTAIN of keys on your key ring, >don't you??? Well if you don't your Dreaded Previous Owner did. When I worked as a sports car mech in the 1960's this was a common problem. We had a woman come in with an MGA that, according to her, ran fine for her but not for her husband. He found nothing wrong. A week later the husband comes in yelling that we don't know what we're doing. You guessed it. He had 5 pounds of keys hanging off the switch and every time he went around a corner the ignition shorted out. His wife, with 2 keys on a ring, had no problems. (And a while later a guy came in with the opposite story. The engine was all carboned up, but we could find no reason. A month later his wife came in, and we discovered the reason for the carbon: she drove with the choke out to have somewhere to hang her purse!) |
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