[DAVID GAGNARD]

Looks like your on the right track to get the engine/car sorted out......I'd never use that shop again and make sure your friends don't either.....sounds like they did pretty much nothing for the 400+ bucks you paid them..........

Had a friend recently asked me to look at his 9.9hp outboard motor...it wouldn't idle and was very hard to start...he had just recently paid a shop 250 bucks for a tune-up (2 spark plugs) and to clean out and adjust the carb,I think it ran worse when they were done....that was 2 very expensive spark plugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Took me less than 2 hours to take the carb off,dis-assemble it and go thru it and re-assemble it and put it back on,adjust the carb and throttle linkage and basically go thru the whole thing.......he told me it had not run that good in years....

I just can't see how some of these so-called mechanics sleep at night doing the things they do.......but that's just me....

david