why are those 2 tiny wires hanging there
Posted: June 9, 2017, 7:38 pm
went to help a friend work on his 65 dodge truck today
he lives way out in the middle of nowhere
on the way home im flying down the road its 95 at least outside all of a sudden my truck just dies.
off to the side of the road and i pop the hood. first thing i notice is no gas in the filter and none in the glass bowl on the fuel pump.
crap i figure my antique fuel pump has given up the ghost
call my friend, he comes down and takes me back home.
i was just going to hook up my spare electric pump to get the truck home but just because i called the parts store to see if they had a pump. he had one 390 pump with the canister on the bottom which fits the 292 in my truck as well.
had the wife drive me down there and picked it up just because he had it and it fit
deduct $42 from the wallet
so we get back to where the truck is and i start the changeout while my wife looks over the fender watching
get the new pump bolted up and hooking up the line when she says
"hey dont get pi$$ed off at this question but why are those 2 little wires hanging down behind the carb"
"huh"
well s.o.b.
the nut holding those 2 wires to the little post on the coil had disappeared ,1 was the power,the other goes to my alternator.
could not have seen that before i installed the new pump so now its on i cannot return it.
now to insert bad joke
wife asks "got any little nuts"
sent her to look thru the tool bag and car glovebox while i finished up the pump
managed to find the nut, had fallen down onto the valley pan
pair of needlenose retrieved it and i put the wires back and of course the truck fired right up again.
why does this type of thing not happen at home instead of 20 miles away in the afternoon heat.