LONG LIVE RED CHINA (Would you like your troll mein with soft or crispy noodles?)

12/26/05 | C.L. Gartman

[Monkey Face]

Also, tomorrow, I'm taking it in for a tune-up and for a front-end alignment. I need to know if I should have them check something else...

[Darksheare]

The ignition cylinder is awfully rare to go, but when it does, it does some weird stuff.

Solenoid picks, and there's clicking.

Face, does the starter engage and actually try to crank the engine, or does it merely sit and click?
(My beat up car fried the main wire from the solenoid to the starter, it clicked, tried to start, and then I had wire smoke coming out from under the hood..)

[Ciexyz]

btt

[Irish_Thatcherite]

To about six decimal places, accurate enough for me!!

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Still here!

[stephenjohnbanker]

: )

[NicknamedBob]

"I'm worried about the trip..."

Another piece of information is whether it will start on a roll during this period. You said it was a standard transmission. That sometimes adds a clutch or brake switch into the confusion.

Worst case, keep somebody handy to give you a push-start, or always park on a hill.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

And they use whips in the labor camps!!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Your car turned on you.................it has happened before.

[stephenjohnbanker]

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEE!!

[Baraonda]

"Entropy."

I tried once this entropy theng. Dropped an egg on the floor, but the egg did not return to its previous state. Did I fail or did entropy fail?

[Dead Corpse]

Key off. Foot on the brake. Try and shift into first, then back into neutral. Do this a couple times. If it catches, its the reverse lockout switch. Kind of a "nothing" part that can be annoying to change out depending on where the manufacturer wired it in at.

Also, if that starter was a boneyard scavange, it might be giving up the ghost. If it was new, it could be something as simple as a wire coming loose. If you are gonna have it in for a tune-up, have 'em take a peak. You'd think they'd experience the fault while working on your truck if they turn it on/off more than once.

[Darksheare]

Yeah, the Flying Dutchman does that.
It has also had the seatbelt refuse to release.
I swear, this car is gonna be the death of me.

"Doomed to drive the roads for eternity!"

[Monkey Face]

"...Face, does the starter engage and actually try to crank the engine, or does it merely sit and click?..."

Hmmm...It just clicks, now that I think of it. I tried to start it by popping the clutch while it was in a roll, but it wasn't a steep enough hill, I'm sure.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

I tried once this entropy theng. Dropped an egg on the floor, but the egg did not return to its previous state. Did I fail or did entropy fail?

A broken egg is in a more stable state than is was before it broke, it's entropy increased when it broke.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Tut tut, kinky communists....

[stephenjohnbanker]

Sounds a bit like Christine. Was your car ever owned by John Carpenter??

[stephenjohnbanker]

Yeah, those Kinky Kommies.

[Monkey Face]

I'm hoping that will happen...I mean, that it does it while it's in for the tune-up. I can delay my trip by a day, but more than that would put it into next motnh.

[Monkey Face]

No...not be Stephen King, either...*snort*