Posted by oldtanker on April 27, 2014 at 14:28:12 from (66.228.255.116):
In Reply to: OT Humble pie posted by JWalker on April 27, 2014 at 13:04:25:
Mine wasn't me. Dad would go on sometimes about getting something used and having to work the "bugs out" when I would complain and say he should have gotten it new. A couple of years after I joined the Army I was home on leave and dad had gotten a used mid 60's Ford pickup. One of the ones that came from the factory choke. He had rebuilt the engine, fresh tune up and he'd done the carb. Well it would only run with the choke half out. It was the middle of haying season and I ask what I could do to help. He'd hired a couple of kids to help with the hay so he told me to take a look at the truck. I checked compression, point gap and timing. Then decided to take a look at the carb. I'm sure you see where this is going. I found a small black insect plugging one of the jets. I got a sewing pin from mom, dug it out and put it in a paper napkin in my shirt pocket. I went out and picked dad and the hired kids up for lunch with the truck. It ran perfect. Dad kept asking me what I'd found and I told him he had to wait because I had something to show him. At the table in front of everyone I pulled
that napkin out, unfolded it and set it next to dad plate. Told him "dad that bug was plugging a jet, don't you know that on this used stuff you gotta work the bugs out"?
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