The 20 cent part.

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Battlewagon
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The 20 cent part.

Post by Battlewagon » Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:02 pm

Driving home from work this afternoon, suddenly the battlewagon surges, backfires several times and dies. Oh s**t says me, timing belt! :(
Popped the hood, reached down and pulled out the inspection bung, slid finger into hole and....belt is ok. :-D
Oh no! computer must have died! :(
Turn ignition on, fuel pump fires up, motor winds over and BANG BANG BANG from exhaust. :confused:
Hmmmmm....seized/bent a valve? Wound motor over by hand, compression on all four pots, so valves are ok. :-|
Scratch head, mumble mumble mumble....problem in dissy? Pulled dissy cap off and hello? what's this? A small screw? reached down to pick it up and....rotor moves. Pull off rotor, and there's a hole in the side of it. Look at dissy shaft, there's a tapped hole to match.
Smiling like an idiot, put rotor back on, put screw back in hole, dissy cap on, turn key and.....It fires right up. :D
A bloody 20cent screw stopped the whole car. Go figure. ;)

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Post by El_Freddo » Fri Jun 26, 2009 2:59 pm

Hehehe... That's a good one! You should have seen me the first time I tried to remove my rotor button, only to find out that it was screwed on!!

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