Injector Seats and such...

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

So, what's the latest from NC????
Your car going to make Cincy?

From: "Lexan Blanchard" <lexan_122874@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:46 PM
Subject: Injector Seats and such...


> Well, got the 1 broken injector seat changed with little effort.  Decided to 
> go with the advice to go ahead and change the other 3 while I am at it.  
> Well, the other 3 won't budge and now another one has broken :(  I sprayed 
> some PB Blaster on them, and will leave them for now.  Maybe they will break 
> free tomorrow.  I am afraid I am going to strip out the allen wrench hole 
> and not be able to get them out.  Why can't 1 thing be simple and straight 
> forward?  I know, bonding time and they all act this way.  Anyone have a 
> better solution than the Blaster and waiting?
> 
> But, good news.  Checked compression last nite (yeah, yeah, I put it off, 
> and put it off).  All 4 are within range!!!  And it was fairly simple to do.
> 
> Also, 1 spark plug looked a little less "used" than the others, so I had my 
> 12 yo son help me check spark.  Boy, so we have some car training to do!!!  
> I asked if he wanted to hold wires or start car.  He chose start.  I showed 
> him where brake was and how to turn key.  I went to wire.  "I can't get the 
> key to turn."  OK, we go through it again.  I went to wire.  He still can't 
> get the key to turn.  I tell him he is fired from starting and must hold 
> wire.  I tell him no hands near belts, and the spark won't hurt.  He freaks, 
> but does it anyway.  Then he turns the halogen work light to where he is 
> looking and tells me he can't see the spark.  DUH!  Finally, he gets it and 
> we have good spark on all 4.  So, I guess the plug is just cleaner looking.  
> I have also learned that my son should move to a city with public 
> transportation.  I try to make this stuff "fun" for the 2 of us, but he is 
> just not interested.
> 
> OT: Gardening coming along nicely.  My mom, just call her Martha Stewart for 
> today, kicked butt on yard work today.  The arbor is finished and we are 
> ready to begin constructing the patio beneath it.  The largest flower bed is 
> weeded and in process of being mulched.  Next bed is about 1/3 weeded (I 
> will finish tomorrow), and we planted a cypress tree in it today.  We have 3 
> pairs of purple martins nesting in the gourds above my vegetable garden.  
> And I have a Caronlina wren that has nested and laid 5 eggs beneath my 
> window.  I LOVE SPRING!!!  Too bad I have to go to work between all this 
> fun!
> 
> Lexan
> 
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