Talking Shop
I feel like I have no clue when it comes to cars. Angel invited one of her friends over to help me out. I already got the tools that I was missing the other night, but it was still good that he came over. I chatted with him back and forth and he seemed to be just where I was with how we approached car maintenance.
He enlightened me that the problem could be with the air intake. I opened up a plastic cover and sure enough my air filter was pretty dirty. I’m estimating that it will be about four dollars to get that replaced.
He sprayed something down the manifest intake (or was it the throttle body?). I turned the engine on and kept pressing the gas a bit to keep it around 2000 rpms while he sprayed down the chute. It would sometimes have a hard time. It was to help clear up anything down there. A branch came down and almost hit our friend.
While we were looking at the engine, he found a sticker that showed me the proper gap for my spark plugs. It said .035 inches. I’ll need to readjust each plug that I put in the other night. We also were able to remove the spark plug wires from the distributor cap. It was mostly to go through the process so I wouldn’t be confused later on.