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Old 08-30-2008, 11:16 AM
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Thank you. If anyone thinks I'm so stupid, that I need to buy a new car, they may want to review the build I linked to for my truck. It took a couple of days to locate an electrical over vacuum switch that I knew would work. All Mercedes hoses and wiring were gone when I bought the engine.

I'm a master auto-body mechanic, and I'm now training to be a machinist.

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I don't think anyone is saying you're stupid.
Some may have misunderstood your intentions, but I think rcounts is saying that ignorance is different than stupidity.

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Old 08-30-2008, 02:44 PM
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I don't think anyone is saying you're stupid.
Some may have misunderstood your intentions, but I think rcounts is saying that ignorance is different than stupidity.
It certainly is.

My main point was don't be too quick to "jump" on someone assuming that they are either ignorant OR stupid. Doing so can end up making YOU look foolish when it turns out that their question is due to neither ignorance NOR stupidity - but rather due to their situation being other than what you assumed it to be...
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Old 08-30-2008, 05:24 PM
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As is too often the case, that which is crystal clear to the writer was not adequately communicated to the reading audience. Full disclosure of the nature of the task in the original post would have prevented a truckload of confusion.
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Old 08-31-2008, 06:39 AM
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I wonder if the inlet side of a windshield washer pump would provide
enough vacuum to shut the engine off ?

Or for that matter control the door locks ?

Hmmm, me smell a project.

Easy remote door locks.



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Old 08-31-2008, 01:01 PM
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This has been debated and tested here before. It can't. Once the fuel line is clamped the pump can't suck any more fuel.
So I could install a valve on the incoming feul line and stop the engine by starving it of fuel. Clever.
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Old 08-31-2008, 01:11 PM
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So I could install a valve on the incoming feul line and stop the engine by starving it of fuel. Clever.
Clever, perhaps, but hardly original.

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