[DeTomaso] Cam question, Pantera ownership is learning to live with disappointment, frustaition and poor.

[ED PIKE]

I'll bet that "got your motor running"! 

I did that with a lawnmower once and I can just imagine what that was like.

Thanks,
Ed
Ed....-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Mark McWhinney
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 3:06 PM
To: 'Jim Cain'; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Cam question,Pantera ownership is learning to live
with disappointment,frustaition and poor.

You guys know way more than me about engines, so I will humbly submit my own
engine starting folly.

The starter was cranking nicely, but the engine would not catch.  To check
for spark, I pulled a wire, pushed a screwdriver into the connector then
held the shaft of the screwdriver about a quarter inch from the block.  I
asked my helper to crank the ignition.  She did not do it, so I leaned
around the back of the car for her to hear me better.  In doing so, I
touched my knuckle to the block and finger to the screwdriver shaft.  She
had heard me the first time but was just a little slow.  At that instant,
she cranked it.



-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Cain
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 11:30 AM
To: Mark McWhinney; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Cam question,Pantera ownership is learning to live
with disappointment,frustaition and poor.

Thanks Mark,
I was trying to keep the message short. I didn't think all the embarassing
details needed to be published again! 

Jim

----- Original Message ----
From: Mark McWhinney <msm at portata.com>
To: Jim Cain <jwcinvestment at yahoo.com>; detomaso at realbig.com;
rimov at charter.net
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 11:11:58 AM
Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] Cam question,Pantera ownership is learning to live
with disappointment,frustaition and poor.



For some reason, Jim still likes us too.

http://realbig.com/pipermail/detomaso/2005-April/056957.html



-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
 [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Cain
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2007 10:56 AM
To: detomaso at realbig.com; rimov at charter.net
Subject: [DeTomaso] Cam question,Pantera ownership is learning to live
 with
disappointment,frustaition and poor.

Paul,
Don't give up! There is enough expertise on this list to help you
 through
this.

It's a good chance it will be something simple.  I had the same level
 of
frustration with my 
fresh rebuild a couple of years ago. It would start but it would run
 like
crap and backfire
like crazy when I tried to rev it. I gave up and threw in the towel
 after
two weeks.
My new friends at PCNC jumped on it at the pre Vegas tech session and
diagnosed the 
problem: I had installed the spark plug wires in the distributor for a
 460
firing order! 
I followed the picture in the book but I didn't read the text. The guys
 also
found 2 or 3 
things I screwed up while trying to figure out the first problem.

Have a beer or martini (it's 5 o'clock somewhere), chill. It will run.
 And
when it's sorted
out you will love it.


Jim Cain




       
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