Re: Chasing Rough idle...compression?

Posted by Mike On 2011/5/26 18:43:45

Funny story, my dad (long time mechanic) and i were talking about this the other day and he told me about how his parents got their first fuel injected caddy (after he was well into being a mechanic) and it had some running issues, and he opened the hood to look at it and there was 100 clothespin on the lines, some not even fuel, that they had put on.

He tried to explain with the high pressure in a fuel injection system, even if clothes pins COULD help with vapor lock, that it wouldn't work on a FI system anyways and it was probably a fuel filter or injection issue, if fuel at all. Their response:

"You know him, can't tell him anything, he knows it all even though he wasn't around when the clothes pins fixed the (insert whatever car they had when my dad was born, likely an early 50's gm car)"

Once someone "knows" something, you can't get them off it.