MD tech session.....thanks

[billsfanmd@xxxx]

This thank you is long overdue but it has been a very busy week for myself so 
I am finally writing a thank you. About 2 weeks ago Rich A put out a DMC 
S.O.S as he was temporarily throwing in the towel....Several owners came to his 
rescue in the form of an informal tech session here in MD. Dave Straggand 
answered the bell as did Bill Robinosn from NC. 

What was amazing is how fast it all came together and the amount of firepower 
that was brought into my garage. Rich's car arrived on a flatbed driven a by 
a friend of Bill's for no charge. Dave Straggand was there to provide triage 
for Richs and my car. With the precision of a surgeon Dave patiently listened 
to both of our engines and began pulling about 10 truckloads of tools and parts 
out of his car. One thing we discovered is that Dave has a fondness for the 
little plastic 10 item or less grocery hand carts as he used many of those to 
transport his tools :-).

He had my car hooked up to his portable computer and gave me a full diagnois 
of my engine. After a few hours of cleaning, fixing, adjusting and replacing 
it was time to re-start the car. It now idles perfectly and drives better then 
it ever has. He even found the mystery ground wire that I have bugged people 
about for 2 years. It was cleverly hidden inside the main wire harness under 
the washer motor. Several peoplehad told me it was the last obvious place for it 
to be grounded.

The work we did on Rich's car was extensive. At 4am when Rich, myself and 
Dave were starting to fatigue and collapse Bill Robinson was still under the car 
barking out orders for replacing the trailing arm bolts. Bill was tireless and 
really helped both myself and Rich out. What made the evening funny is how 
BIll kept telling Rich and me that we could solve all of our problems by ripping 
the Lamba system out :-).....

Bill also let me steal a few of his shiny new bolts so now my engine 
compartment shines. Again, just wanted to publicly thank Bill and Dave S for helping 
out Rich and myself. Bill drove 6 hours + and Dave drove 4 hours to get to my 
house. 

Because of people like them owning a DMC is that much easier.

Mike C
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