Showerthought: I was trying to fix my old truck's rough idle for months.

I kept adjusting the carburetor in my garage, convinced the mix was wrong. The real issue was a cracked vacuum hose I only spotted when my buddy in Austin pointed at it and said 'your engine is just sucking air right there.' How many other problems have I been overcomplicating by ignoring the simple stuff first?

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elliot_gibson2717d ago

Months on a carburetor? Dang.

milarodriguez17d ago

My buddy spent a whole summer on his, @elliot_gibson27, just trying to get it to idle right.

mason_lopez17d ago

See this all the time with old cars, @milarodriguez. People get stuck on one tiny fix, like a carb tune, and the whole project just stalls. It's like they forget they can move to something else and come back to it later.