ever watch a new guy fight a problem thats easily solved?

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ever watch a new guy fight a problem thats easily solved?
I got a call from one of my friends sons , he was having a great deal of difficulty removing a distributor on a common small block Chevy engine in a van, because access was a real pain in the butt! ...made far worse because hes about 18 years old and he was trying to get access with common open end wrenches, I watched him struggle for 2-3 minutes and suggested he use the correct tool, a distributor wrench....., what I didn,t realize in most of these kids have never seen one or heard of a distributor wrench....well for those of you that don,t know what they are they are a wrench that commonly comes in 10mm,12mm, 14mm,15mm 1/2" and 9/16" but there ARE other sizes available, they are designed to make accessing the bolt or nut on a stud , holding the distributor clamp to the intake far easier, so its much easier to loosen or tighten the distributor, now the kids who are brought up on computers controlled ignitions might find this amazing but on the older muscle cars its was very common to use a timing light and move or rotate the distributor to advance or retard the timing.

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Re: ever watch a new guy fight a problem thats easily solved

Bought one of these many years ago. Probably ranks in top ten of my best buys ever including RK and my iPhone.
 
Re: ever watch a new guy fight a problem thats easily solved

I just had a guy have his car towed over to have me look at it, it was a 1987 TPI corvette, it would not start, and when it did act like it wanted to for a second or so it would almost catch and run but would not stay running for more than a 1/2 second, I checked ignition timing and for spark and that was fine.
your best route is going thru a step by step check list, don,t guess verify each system functions

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so I used my shrader valve tool

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to remove the center valve section
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BTW vinyl tube should never be used as fuel line for any longer than a quick test as it gets brittle when subjected to fuel and engine heat over time and becomes a fire hazard

I placed a 3 foot section of clear vinyl tube over the now open shrader valve so fuel would would exit the fuel rail, and flow into a clear quart container, so I could see if there was water mixed in the fuel,...all I got was a bunch of bubbling fuel and mostly air so I realized the fuel supply was not providing significant fuel pressure,or fuel flow volume. the fuel gauge indicated a 1/4 tank but adding 5 gallons instantly got solid fuel pressure and flow, replacing the shrader valve interior and trying to start the car, it fired right up, the major engine problem was, simply that he was flat out of fuel and the gauge is defective

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