[elky] Re: New Injectors
- From: Jared Ryan <jryan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:23:30 -0500
Oh, I totally agree with learning from other people's mistakes. That's why
I set the minimum idle in park. I don't trust the parking brake not to
somehow become dislodged, or a wheel chock to move.
Shoot, the dynamometers they use for emissions testing make me nervous.
They don't tie down the car at all. What if the dyno suddenly seizes, or
something like that? The car will launch, and the state - which mandated
the program - would deny any and all liability.
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:17:20 EDT, STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx wrote:
> I always was a safety first kind of guy. I always have this fear of an
> unmanned vehicle taking off in gear. If I ever did any adjustments, in
> gear, I
> always had someone sit in the driver seat, and let me tell you why. Two
> true stories that happened to friends of mine, and it will NEVER happen
to
> me.
> First, a friend doing an idle adjustment in a Pontiac dealership. R
> evving the throttle by hand the car goes into drive, shoots forward, and
> pinned
> him against the wall. He broke his pelvis bone, and was out for six
> months.
> Second, A friend owned a body shop, and just finished a full
restoration
> on a 69 Shelby. He was going to move it out of the shop. ...... He
started
>
> it, and left it running to warm up as he opened the door. The car goes
> into reverse, and because of the fast idle, is now shooting for the open
> door.
> The driver's door was open, and that gets folded back going through the
> door. The car is now moving at a good speed across the street, and all
he
> could do was watch. Luckily there was no traffic, and across the street
> was a
> field of weeds. As he watched, and cringed, no one was hit, and it
missed
> a
> pole by inches. He figured the tall weeds would catch the car. As luck
> would have it upon entering the weeds the Shelby came to an abrupt stop.
> There
> was a fire hydrant hidden in the weeds. It left the nastiest crease in
the
>
> center back of the car. All the repairs were on him. OUCH.
> Learn from this.
> -Staten Island Frank-
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