A fatal thing to write

A little while back I wrote about cheap cars.

We have bought a cheap car it's still cheap but it was someone dumping a problem.

This was a modern car with all sorts of leccytronics which were in meltdown.

Now, it turns out this was a very simple problem, but of course the computer is only as good as the nerd who programmed it.

So, when the catalytic converter jammed with carbon, most likely because the owner was being "green" and running the thing on chip shop fat, it started dumping lots of unburnt carbon loaded gas into the inlet side of the engine which sent the computer into meltdown.

This we took, based on what the computer said, as our cue to throw all the electronics out and re configure the engine with old fashioned mechanical injection.

Of course the puter had some virtues and at least with the fault the engine would sort of run.

With all that replaced by old fashioned mechanical devices; we ended up with an engine that barely would.

The grease being a bright engineer worked out that the inlet side of the engine was choked.

He has been dealing with a very blocked pipe.

The way this was dealt with is simple, you fill the pipe with paraffin let it soak into the grime and then torch it out.

This means sticking the blowtorch into the pipe to set it alight and then following up with the airline. 5 foot jets of flame are us!!!

This all went down well with young Taliesin, management was less sure.

Now it all goes back together and we see where we go from there.

R