[V8] Things that go suck in the night...

[Ed Kellock]

The OXS signal wire won't do that, will it?  Are you sure it was that
and not a reference sender wire or something?

Ed

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Unka Bart" <gatorojo at earthlink.net>
To: <v8 at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 6:24 PM
Subject: [V8] Things that go suck in the night...


> Dang!  I was all tingly with anticipation of how much better the
> Gentleman's express was going to run on the way over to the shop to
get
> the bloody O2 sensor removed.  Thoughts of gas milage numbers
greater
> than 12.0 danced and pirouetted amongst the remaining two or three
> neural synapses in my brain, for I had just succeeded in finding and
> removing the black wire from the 02 sensor where it connects to
> whatever it connects down under the left dizzy...
>
> When I went to start it, it would not start.  Not for me the joy of
> improved starting, oh noo!  Immediate "rhums" or any other starting
> noises for that matter, were not to tickle *my* eager ears, no sir!
>
> Plenty of eager starter-spinning noises, sure!  All of those noises
> that a dedicated V8 lover could ask for in embarrassing
abundance!But
> in the department of actual indications that ignition of fuel/air
> mixture might be occurring somewhere in bowels of the V8 from which
my
> beloved Gentleman's express gets it model name, there were none.
Nada.
>   Nichevo.  Zip.
>
> [insert language unfit for print or ether or even semaphore in this
> location]
>
> Re-attaching the black wire and repeating the attempt to start was
> successful.  Attempts to understand this were, however. not.
>
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