In my past life I worked in the automotive industry for over 20 years. In that time, I realized that the hard part about fixing cars is not changing an alternator or removing and replacing a transmission. The hard part was always figuring out what was causing the conditions of failure and what you had to do to fix it. I distinctly remember an older customer with a late model Mercedes-Benz. The dealer told her she needed a new transmission computer as the car would not drive correctly, shuddering and hard shifting. When she dropped it off, I asked her when the problem started. She said had loaned it to her son and when she got it back it was broken. We scanned the transmission computer but found no issues. We ran the adaptations for the transmission, basically ctrl/alt/delete, restart and defrag for a control module. The car ran beautifully. I recognized that the adaptive transmission learned her sons full throttle highway driving style, and grandma going to church and bingo style just didn’t work the same. The dealer didn’t recognize this. Her $4,000 engine computer was fixed with a $100 reset!
Great article!
I would add one more important item to the troubleshooting – make sure your fuel does not have water. And learn to drain carburetor bowl. In fact if it does not start and you check everything that mentioned in the article, open and carburetor bowl drain valve and pump good fresh fuel through the system. Close the valve and try to start.
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