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|    mark lewis to Ron Kinney    |
|    Oil Change    |
|    18 Jun 19 15:28:42    |
      REPLY: 20.fidoautomoti@1:104/115 216e264f       MSGID: 1:3634/12.73 5d093ee1       PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20180707       CHRS: CP437 2       TZUTC: -0400       TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 07-09-15               On 2019 Jun 18 08:07:54, you wrote to me:               >> are you talking about the two nuts on top of the coil where the two        >> wires that provide power and ground are connected?        >>        >> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Igncoil.jpg        >>        >> they should come off quite easily... if the threaded studs break, the        >> coil needed replacing anyway...               RK> Thats exactly it. Everything always looks good on paper, but this was how        RK> it all unfolded.              [snip]              holy geez, man! that is really whack... i've seen similar but was wrapped in       another project and was unable to watch it unfolding... that was back in high       school...              then there was the time my mother got a gasket kit because she needed the       valve cover gaskets replaced... they had been leaking oil and she had       overtightened the valve cover bolts which caused the gaskets to split and       break... this was a '70something toyota corolla... one of the gaskets in the       kit was the exhaust gasket and she insisted that it be replaced, too...              two broken exhaust studs, several broken drill bits, and three broken EZOuts       later, she drove it to the dealership... cost was two diamond drill bits,       several more EZOuts, and several hours of labor... plus, of course, the       replacement studs which ended up being all eight of them... she didn't worry       about doing any of the other gaskets (timing chain cover, oil pump, water       pump, etc) after that...              i think she was happy to replace the vehicle after a train yard engine caught       the rear quarter panel and rolled it over a year or so later... that's another       story altogether, though ;)              )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... Fancy Restaurant: One where they serve your soup cold on purpose.       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 15/2 18/0 116/116 123/0 25 50 150 755 135/300 153/7715       SEEN-BY: 154/10 30 40 700 203/0 221/0 6 226/16 17 227/114 400 229/275       SEEN-BY: 229/310 354 426 728 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 261/38       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 292/854 317/3 322/757 340/800 342/200 393/68       SEEN-BY: 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/1 2452/250 3634/0 12 15       SEEN-BY: 3634/27 50 119       PATH: 3634/12 154/10 280/464 229/426           |
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