Once upon a time there lived a middle aged prince. He was a happy man as he had invested way too much money in a toy. Since he had wanted this toy for many years, he held no anxst for the invested dollars. One day while he was enjoying his toy, is suddenly started to act up. It began to cough and sputter and surge and buck and he couldn't figure out what was wrong. So he adjusted the timing. He reset the valves. He messed with the carburetor. He hired someone else to mess with the carburetor. None of this seemed to help. One night in frustration, he pulled the air cleaner off and was about to start tearing things apart just to be tearing them apart. One of the neighbor kids came over and asked what he was doing. (All of the neighbor kids loved it when the prince played with his toy.) So he explained the situation to the kid. The young man happened to be taking auto shop in high school and he commented on something about a distributor cap and a crack. Well, the Prince had just recently put a new cap on this particular distributor so he said that couldn't be it. (REALLY DUMB STATEMENT!) Anyway, to make a long story short.. After all of the BS the prince had gone through and the money he'd paid, all of his issues boiled down to a defective distributor cap. It had a small piece blown out of one of the wire housings and it was invisible with the air cleaner on. With the air cleaner off and the motor running, you could clearly see that the cap was shorting to the retaining clip. New cap.. no problem. The moral of the story is don't always assume the worst. Start with the simple stuff first
and listen when young people talk
. Sometimes they have some very important stuff to say.
Signed, The Dumb Prince in Mesa
