If I knew that I woudn't have asked.

The car woes continue, this time through no fault of my own. Thus far I've replaced cap, rotor and coil. Frustrating that none of this has fixed the problem but cheap enough that it isn't worth complaining about. Let's try a distributer. Nobody has one in stock so I have to order it. Welcome to Wausau where nobody has anything but they can always order it. Before leaving the parts store my comments were as follows....... "There's only one bolt holding that in place. Is all that I need to do is remove that bolt, pull out the old and drop in the new" To which I was told "Yes, that's it". Great, this will be a 10 minute fix.

The distributer came in, a day early to my surprise, so I did exactly as I was told to do. The problem is that I WAS NOT told that you need to align a distributer based on timing sequence and the easiest way to do it is mark the old one before you remove it. Nice knowing that now. I must have been pretty close by accident as I got a few pops out of the car before it officially decided not to start.

Today I will resume where I left off as it required more patience than I had yesterday. Times like these make me wish I had a 4 cylinder as the trial and error process wouldn't take as long. But of course it's a V8 so my chances of getting it right the first time are only 12.5% Which is about the same odds as me shopping at Advance again.

FYI. E.I.E.I.O. won the UCWI Play Off game over WAMS and is the regular season champion. This carries the #1 seed in the conference tournament and automatic bid in the 8 team D4 National Tournament. Should E.I.E.I.O. sweep by winning the Conference Tournament only 1 UCWI team will make it. If WAMS wins two teams will go and it will knock one of the LNCUTMV schools out of the dance.