Re: General rant about everything
Posted to Emissions Forum on 7/10/2012
Danny,
Thanks for making me smile with your capture of a 1983 E150!
About ten years ago, my friend's dad (a nice but salty old
fart) brought one in for inspection. I popped the hood and
immediately saw that he had chucked the EEC III distributor
and replaced it with a 'points and condenser' unit. As I
closed the hood to reject it, I asked him why he had done
that. "It was bad, I couldn't get the damn thing to run on
more than four cylinders after I changed the plugs and
wires", he said. Those of us who have been around for awhile
in a professional capacity know exactly why it was messing
with him, but he was too "old-school" to know or care. I
don't know what happened to that van, but I never saw it
again.
Later,
Michael T. Barry
Michael Barry Technician Quick Stop Smog & More Sacramento, California, USA
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