Reviving the herd, Or, "How to lose money and friends and anger the wife" Options

[paxton]

See my first post:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=243052

I won't clutter up the board with a bunch of threads, so I'll contain my questions to this one.

First up is the green machine. Kind of more like sunflower than green, but I digress. The green machine has no battery. It will not start, obviously.

But first a little story. For the past few days, the keys for the green machine have been missing. I have a devious little boy who likes to grab things and put them away in his many toy boxes/behind the couch/underneath things I didn't know there was an underneath to. I also just sold an old 412 and thought maybe I left them in there for some odd reason. I had turned the house and the garage upside down. No keys.

I gather the family (which includes 3 older kids who always want money) and I said whoever finds the keys in this house will get $50. They never worked so hard. My wife wanted money to (surprise!) so she was in on the hunt too.

On a whim, my wife went out to the car and looked in the ignition. Silly woman. That car doesn't even have a battery in it. Why would you look in... "I found them!" she yelled. What? You found the keys? IN THE IGNITION????

Of course they would be in the ignition of a non-running car that doesn't have a battery. Of course... Then I remembered: I sold the 412 and moved the green machine in its place. I had to turn the key to keep the steering wheel from locking.

So I'm the idiot and I'm out $50.

Back to the car.

The previous owner told me it will start (and run) if you use some starting fluid. If you turn the engine off, it will not start again, until you use starting fluid.

My plan is to drain the gas, refuel, replace plugs, wires, and cap (at least), and then check each of the injectors. Change oil and new filter. Any other guidance?

[Cupomeat]

Great story and remember that it may have been very likely that that particular $50 would go to your wife anyway, so think of it as you got work for nothing!

Where I grew up we left keys in the ignition all the time in the driveway. I wish I could do that now (and still retain the car).

as for the 1.7, i think they covered it, but go over the basics first like others have said and then let us know.

[poorsche914]

I always leave the keys in the ignition in the 914 when parked in the garage. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Like your "devious little boy who likes to grab things and put them away", I have a granddaughter who, at age 4, wanted to play in my 914 while it sat in the garage. I told her she could since I was there in the garage working on something 914.

Later that day, I discovered the keys were missing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
I asked her what she did with them but she only cried and couldn't remember (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
Earlier that day I had come across a full ignition set with key so I simply swapped it out.

We later found the key hanging on the key hook where my wife and son hang their keys. She had put the key where she thought it belonged (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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