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Re: carbs(stupid question)

To: "Tom Hendricksen" <tom@fransfancies.com>,
Subject: Re: carbs(stupid question)
From: "Daryl Smith" <darylsmith@telus.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 18:26:16 -0700
you can put me in this paddywagon also!
Daryl
'66 1600
Vancouver, BC


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Hendricksen" <tom@fransfancies.com>
To: "Roman Rist" <roadsterregistry@yahoo.com>
Cc: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 3:56 AM
Subject: Re: carbs(stupid question)


> Roman,
>
> Your not alone in feeling like you are a member of this department at
times, I am right in there with you at times.  Thankfully there is no dumb
> question.  I learned something I may really need later from the first
answer to your question.
>
> One of the reasons that I bought third 2000, 29 years after my last one,
was that I THOUGHT I understood the car and it would be easy to maintain.  I
> also like the attitude of a 2000.  Fiat 124 Spyders are nice, and I once
enjoyed one of those, but the car has no attitude.  I owned the 124 between
my
> 68 and 70 2000's.  THEY had attitude.
>
> After changing the starter twice, the engine once (when I get the gasket I
still have to put the manifolds on to complete the change), and working on
> things in general, I am learning that if there was something to design,
the designers had nightmares about the problem and then created designs
based on
> those nightmares.  So far I find these simple little cars are a real bear
to work on in many areas.  Either that, or I used to be a lot more limber
than
> I am now.....  This list, and "dumb" questions from others and myself, has
been a huge help ever since I picked up the first wrench and got my first
> backache.
>
> Tom Hendricksen
> 69 2000
> Portland, Oregon
>
> Roman Rist wrote:
>
> > well I figured out 2 things.
> >
> > 1) boy, does a car run better when you change a fuel filter!
> >
> > still runs so so, but much better.
> >
> > 2) I figured out one of my roles on this list, I'm one of the guys that
asks the dumb questions so the lurkers don't have to (avoiding embarrasment)
> >
> > bye,
> >
> > Roman
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