[V8] It should always be this easy

Tom Laplante toml99 at todomundo.com
Sun Feb 11 09:51:00 PST 2018


Since this site is so slow, thought I'd share what happened yesterday.  
A few weeks ago the Lago car wouldn't start....no click,nothing.  I 
feared the signal wire at starter had come off, or I get the joy of 
replacing the ignition switch.  Then I remembered the Automatic 
Transmission relay(neutral safety switch).  I went to pull it and it was 
loose(been driving around with cover off and think girlfriend musta 
bumped it)....Pushed it in and fired right up....total time invested 
about 2 minutes.

It had also been running a bit rougher over time and had been meaning to 
get new caps/rotors, just hadn't done it.  So went to pull first plug 
and it was loose!  Not only that but it was 4 prong Bosch with 4 rings 
on it that I payed stupid money for MANY years ago/50K.  Went and got a 
set of Autolite 103's and proceeded to replace them one by one like I 
always do, and all 8 were loose!  I torque everything so either they all 
worked loose, or I never torqued them when I did the timing belt 6? 
years ago....Runs great....Total cost...$17.  Tom



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