"root cause" of problem found!

[dhoward]

Originally posted by cowtown
The real question is, when you drive, do you feel your paradigm shift?

Sometimes my paradigm grinds.....

[GSpreeman]

Sounds as if you need a paradigm clutch adjustment. But, it's easy...you're a self-starter!

[cowtown]

Originally posted by GSpreeman
Sounds as if you need a paradigm clutch adjustment. But, it's easy...you're a self-starter!

That will cost more than a paradigms, though.

Don't forget to tip your waitress. I'll be here all week!

Okay, I'm not posting any more to this thread, I promise

[sammyg2]

We as threadmates should be forming a stategic alliance P2P in order to become interdependant for the foreseable future. Blame storming at this point would be detrimental to our collective partnership and is non-value added and can only lead to a 404 exit stategy.
With better peer to peer interaction we can think outside the box and pick the low hanging fruit which will ultimately lead to avoidance of a regime change.
Remaining lean and mean and deconflicted is the only real way to protect ourselve from being voted off the island.
My suggestion at this time is that we get off the bubble and with extensive data mining we can reach agreeance with our SME's and develop a going forward attitude and create a culture of empowerment for our associates.
Sorry, I can't help myself sometimes

[RANDY P]

and then you can bonus and buy that Porsche "branded" car.

[azasadny]

The original starting problem has returned. I managed to start the car after about 50 cranks and several loud backfires, then it started and ran great. I drove it about 60 miles to a Porsche event and I stopped at a gas station. Restarted the car with the first crank. After letting the car sit for 30 minutes, it's extremely difficult to start again. I'm goint to test the pressures using my recently acquired gauges. I'm going to search the PP archives for the testing procedure and take it from there. I'm not going to start replacing parts again and evidently my mechanic didn't fix the problem, so I don't think I'll be taking it back to him.

[nostatic]

you need a more proactive paradigm to grow the synergies while maintaining a prophalactic approach.

A favorite Simpson's moment:

Krusty: So he's proactive, huh?
Lady: Oh, God, yes. We're talking about a totally outrageous paradigm.
Meyer: Excuse me, but "proactive" and "paradigm"? Aren't these just buzzwords that dumb people use to sound important?
[backpedaling] Not that I'm accusing you of anything like that.
[pause] I'm fired, aren't I?

[Don Plumley]

This post resonates with me

As a marketing guy with an MBA, and as both management and a consultant - well, I'm responsible for creating and disseminating a fair amount of verbal fertilizer.

Try this site for a dose of automatically generated web economy BS - quite fun.

[azasadny]

Many of you have followed my intermittent "cold starting" problem that eventually became a constant starting problem that caused my to have to crank my car 20-30 times, with several loud backfires, prior to the car starting. Once the car started, it ran great but the starting problem was driving me nuts. Needless to say, I replaced alot of components (fuel filter and accumulator, cold start valve and thermotime switch, throttle microswitch, plugs, CD unit, rotor, coil, Pertronix unit, WUR, etc...


Each replaced item improved the situation temporarily, but the problem still persisted. The cold and warm pressures were within acceptable limits and I had good spark at plug #1, but the car just cranked and refused to start. To make a long story short, this is what the mechanic found:

- The plugs were improperly gapped (too wide) even though I followed the instructions on the PermaTune CD unit for spark plug gapping specs.

- The plug wires and their "boots" are bad and I will replace them

- The "new" throttle microswitch that Jordi Riera sent to me worked perfectly and the old one was bad

- One of the wires coming off the Pertronix unit had rubbed until the insulation was off and bare wire was showing.

My mechanic "fixed" these things and the car starts on the first crank, idles at 950rpm and runs great. I REALLY appreciate all of the assistance so many of you have provided. I have learned alot from you kind folks. I'll post this update on the other posts that I have been on so that anyone with a similar problem may be helped. I had checked the spark at plug #1 and had a nice spark, but my mechanic showed me that others were weak. I hope this helps others out there....