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Tune up
- Subject: Tune up
- From: gr8hunter1 at comcast.net (Jacob Hawes)
- Date: Sat Jul 30 01:09:50 2005
I have been told a couple of different things about tune ups. One is
that a tune up on a fuel injected car is pretty much just rotor, cap,
and spark plugs, but I was also told that it involves checking the rotor
and cap for burning/carbon build up, change air filter, fuel filter,
check the spark plug wires, possibly adjust the valves, etc...
I am asking because for one, I have never done a tune up, and two, we
are trying to sell the Tempo and it has not had a tune up in the three
years we have owned it (though I think we have only put 20-25k miles on it).
So if I were to give the tempo a tune up instead of paying a mechanic,
what would I need to have? I got ratchets, sockets, wrenches (the
basics), I don't have a book for the car, and I don't have any specialty
tools.
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--Jacob Hawes
Cars:
'78 Lincoln mark V "QE2" nearly abandoned work in progress
'80 Scirocco mk1 searching for a name
'92 Ford Tempo "the... ford" soon to be replaced by rocco as DD
Sharp pointy things:
18" HI Kobra "pillow knife"
17.5" HI Ang Khola Villager "camp axe"
~48" Custom two hander. unnamed
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