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I got out of bed this morning. Does that count ??
been there done that but caught it before I fired it up, the distributor went in to easy is what made me look.
Man, there just isn't enough time in the world to list all my goof-ups. I had to assemble/disassemble a 55 intake three times yesterday because I forgot something.. fuel line routing, carb linkage, choke knob. And that's a good day!
It's all just part of the rich pageant of life.
I married my first wife twice. Didn't work either time.
I was given a MS 280 recently and when I got it home I fired it up. The noise it made hurt my ears and scared me. I thought it was going to explode.
I checked the piston through the exhuast port and both crank bearings and could not find anything wrong.
My diagnoise was a bad rod bearing. I proceeded to tear it down until the only thing left to remove was the clutch, clutch bell, brake mechanism, and oiler and could not find any thing wrong. The P & C looked new, all bearings were good. Finally I checker the clutch and the spring that runs the oil pump was not as it should be. That is the only thing that I could find wrong. It is hard to believe that it could cause so much noise. I have not got it back together. I hope the new oiler part is the answer.
Everyone who has worked on something has done dumb things, some will admit it and some will not. Tom
I bolted and torqued the heads on a 350 V8 once and didn't install the pistons first....
I also forgot to fill a car with oil once when doing a change at wal mart.....the guy up top started it and it made a weird noise so he rev'd it a little to find out what is was and then I realized what the problem was and told him to turn it off but he could not hear me...
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