I have a story for you auto mechanic guys.
Guy spent a chunk of $ to have his truck LS swapped over in the big city 4 hours away. ‘67 Chevy or something. Had all kinds of weird intermittent running issues, back to the shop twice or something. Finally took it to the local guy in podunk who’s pretty good (has my maybe buy Ford 6.0 diesel now). He puts it up on the rack and in ten mins discovers the batt ground cable is loose.
That reminds me of an old one I’ll tell on myself. When I was a kid my first vehicle was a CJ-7. Modded it pretty good for crawling, Dana 44s, lockers, 35s, beat it til the frame and body mounts fell apart and parted it out but still have the body. Early on, I put a Jacob’s High Energy Ignition on it. Went out to the desert to meet a coworker that was testing the “terrible scout” he and his buddies raced. Never found them and then the jeep just shut off. Crank, no fire. I checked everything I could think of on the passenger side, light on the ign box was on, etc. I called my mom n step dad and they came to pick me up…carried my toolbox across the desert to the highway to meet them cuz I didn’t want my stuff stolen. I think we dragged it out of the desert with my grandpa’s 2wd posi Chevy 1500, a miracle we managed to dodge all the sandy spots. Then we went into town and got another truck and trailer and come alongs. I got home at 1am or something. After work the next day I went to try to trouble shoot it…I had forgotten that the ign sys tied into the factory harness on the driver side and had come partially unplugged because the plastic retainer had gotten brittle and snapped. The instructions had said to zip tie it and I had forgotten. Plugged it in and vroom!
Happy Thanksgiving, y’all!
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