...and the moral of this story is..??

[rokndad]

Dan, don't feel sheepish. I did the same thing with lots of expensive parts and a ton of time. It was the batteries!! Duh!!

[DAVID GAGNARD]

As they say, $hit happens!!!!!!!!!
Since my early days of driving cars with points and condensors, I learned (the hard way) that after a tune-up and the car still ran like crap, I could have installed defective parts, so I made it a habit of starting the car with out the air cleaner after dark, just to check for spark arcing..........You'd be surprised at how fast those old factory plug wires go bad..........to this day, I still start and check my car after dark for that very reason..........

David

[LRcobradreamer]

I try to remember the KISS prinicple, Keep It Simple Sam (could substitute a different word for last S, but I won't go there). Eliminate the simple, easy things first, then move on. I admit I sometimes forget, but is memory the first thing to go or the second as we age, I forget.

Glad you got it fixed.

Lee