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I suggest a 2-week course of brain bleach,
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Heeheehee...who could possibly forget to take a rag out of an intake - and now uses tagged plastic plugs for that exact reason? [innocent]?
As regards the above, the more common happening is that the engine under repair is started and either runs extremely poorly or not at all. Hours of frantic diagnostic work takes place untiul the aforementioned rag is found and removed.Someone I knew forgot to remove a rag from the intake manifold and ran it through the engine! Rag threads everywhere!
--FreeFlier
Seems as if an engine refit could benefit from operating-room protocols. One needs a medical assistant (akin to a circulating nurse) to keep track of the location and use of every single surgical sponge rag and clamp.Just Old Al wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 7:23 am As regards the above, the more common happening is that the engine under repair is started and either runs extremely poorly or not at all. Hours of frantic diagnostic work takes place until the aforementioned rag is found and removed.
Why no, I've never done that.....[chagrin].
Actually, it's usually not an issue if one has any discipline at all. As I have said before it's when one gets into a hurry that problems happen. Al's protocols and mine are identical because of that - I've been burned (figuratively and a time or two literally) by hurry and lack of coherent planning - hence why it's never become a major issue.
Thankfully it was a Diesel and not a petrol engine...much less likely to go BANG.
Imagine that... It's as if one read the other's mind...
I think these guys drilled a board to bolt on.Just Old Al wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 7:23 amHeeheehee...who could possibly forget to take a rag out of an intake - and now uses tagged plastic plugs for that exact reason? [innocent]?
As I understood it, their response to poor idle was to "blip" the throttle . . .Just Old Al wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 7:23 amAs regards the above, the more common happening is that the engine under repair is started and either runs extremely poorly or not at all. Hours of frantic diagnostic work takes place until the aforementioned rag is found and removed.
Why no, I've never done that.....[chagrin].
If you gotta ask...there ain't no use explainin'.lake_wrangler wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 4:42 pm (The real question is, who set their protocol in place first... )
As long as you don't try to make a perfect protocol that prescribes the precise course of action for every single possibility . . .Just Old Al wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 7:48 pmIf you gotta ask...there ain't no use explainin'.lake_wrangler wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 4:42 pm(The real question is, who set their protocol in place first... )
More seriously, it's something I've made a point of in every organization I've run, either business or personal.
Having spent a decade with IBM...yeah, I know better.
We were infested with MBAs . . . and we weren't allowed to fumigate.
Methinks you've been hanging around women too long...Just Old Al wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 7:48 pmIf you gotta ask...there ain't no use explainin'.lake_wrangler wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 4:42 pm (The real question is, who set their protocol in place first... )
Husband: Is something wrong, honey?
Wife: Well, if you can't figure it out, I'm not telling you!
Only one thing? Old git's doing well.
To be honest, that was his intention all along - that they as you say dine on their own dog food.He not only should have insisted his interns spend some time driving the vehicle on the track, he should have informed them that this would happen before they started working on it. Also, he should have made a point of riding with them.
"Eat your own dog food."
THEY were fixing a car that other people's lives will depend on.
HE has been building a couple of auto mechanics / engineers that other people's lives will depend on.