We had to laugh......

My pickup needed a starter and I didn't feel like messing with it myself, so I took it to the same NAPA shop that worked on our Chrysler T&C a couple of days ago. I think the starter did it's last gasp when I got it to start to go to the shop, and they didn't shut it off till they had it on a hoist. In the scheme of things, the boss himself wound up replacing the starter.

When we picked up the pickup, I paid the bill and went to leave. When I started the pickup a big yellow "Check Engine Oil Level" light flashed. I knew what had happened. On that pickup, there's an engine oil level sensor in the side of the oil pan next to the starter, and you have to remove the plug from the sensor to drop the starter. When I went back in, the boss was off on an errand somewhere and I talked to his son. The son knew right away, too, what had happened and ran the pickup back onto a hoist, raised it up, and plugged the sensor back in.

Before he did, though, he got out his cell phone and took a picture of the unplugged sensor. He said, "I'm going to email it to my old man and give him a hard time".

You gotta have a little fun, sometimes.

Yeah, stuff like that happens. When my son & I swapped motors in his old beater, we went to start it. No spark. Hmmm... we'd forgotten to swap the cam sensor from his old motor. We chuckled, too.

You betcha. At work they don't bust my chops anymore cause I take pictures of when THEY screw up on something.

Wife called me one night. Battery dead on her car. Told her I didn't have one left on the truck. So I would stop and get one. Got home changed the
battery nothing happened. Wife had the flashlight standing by the battery. I was in the seat when I heard. Don't you need to remove this black thing.
Before you hook up the battery. I removed the black thing cranked up just fine.I heard about the black thing for along time.

Good one! Ron Mn

(quoted from post at 17:30:38 08/09/17) Wife called me one night. Battery dead on her car. Told her I didn't have one left on the truck. So I would stop and get one. Got home changed the
battery nothing happened. Wife had the flashlight standing by the battery. I was in the seat when I heard. Don't you need to remove this black thing.
Before you hook up the battery. I removed the black thing cranked up just fine.I heard about the black thing for along time.

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So that's where this picture came from!

Did a 300 dollar service call to remove one of those black caps once!

My shop forklift has a Y112 Continental. I had some issues with it not wanting to start, after never giving a problem in nearly 18 years, and having just been parked from use about a week before. I found low compression on two cylinders, and the valves carboned up from never really running it hard. So, I got that sorted out, and had her running again as of this past Monday night. The next evening I ran it a little bit to get it warm, and then drained the oil, since I had had it opened up cleaning, reseating, and and setting the valves.

While the oil was draining I realized I'd put the plug wires in the wrong places since the two that had straight boots wouldn't fit on the back of the engine, under the tunnel in the floor panel. So, I swapped the wires.

Got my new oil filter the next morning, got that squared away, and went to start it. It wouldn't hit a lick for anything, but did backfire a couple of times. It was right back to where it had been when it quit before.

I messed with it, off and on, for awhile, as I was disgusted with it by this time. I finally decided to start back at square one and see what I could find.

Somehow when I put the plug wires in the 'right' places so the 90 degree boots were where they needed to be, I managed to get the thing 180 degrees out of time. Man I felt like an idiot after that........ Now she purrs like a kitten.