The Gimili Glider.Well there was that airliner that came down on an abandoned airfield after liter/gallon/pounds/kilos conversions were calculated wrong and it ran out of fuel mid flight.
Well that's in the general field of Transportation. Close enough to Towing Wrong? No?
I either hadn't heard that story or had forgotten it. Quite a story. The pilots were reprimanded, but I didn't read what happened to the engineers who put the wrong conversion into the flight manual
7/8" thread size? That seems huge for a spark plug.
According to the YouTube video I just watched on it, they were told to fly it after using a dip stick to check the fuel. There
Doesn't it suck when someone writing the manual is dyslexic
A distributor can go in two ways 180 degrees apart. I bet he had the plug wires on correctly but all you do is loosen the distributor, pull it up a little, rotate the rotor 180, and reinstall it.Doesn't it suck when someone writing the manual is dyslexic
Buddy had an old Bronco jacked up on 44's with a Hurst shifter on the floor.
He decided to do a tune up. Instead of getting the plugs, plug wires, and distributer cap first, he pulled everything off.
He then went to discount auto and got what he needed. Then once it came to installing the distributer cap, rotor and attaching the plug wires, he was at a loss.
So he called the auto parts store for the firing order so he could hook it all back up. Didn't work.
I then called and got the firing order and couldn't figure it out.
Finally he got fed up and sold it for cheap.
The guy who bought it had his wife drive him over. Didn't bring a trailer, and they showed up in a little car.
Guy did the paperwork, handed over the money, got the keys.
He then walked out to the Bronco, popped the hood, disconnected the distributer cap, rotated it 180° and reattached it.
Jumped in and fired the bronco up
Chilton and Haines manuals had the firing order reversed.
I spent a long night in the shop where I worked putting new gears and a Detroit in the Dana 44 in my Jeep.
Wikipedia has a fairly comprehensive article on The Gimli Glider including the aftermath, investigation, and later history. In the article, Wikpedia used the word "dripstick" that I thought was a typo, but I clicked on the word to discover a dripstick is a standpipe that is withdrawn from the underside of the wing until the level of the top of the pipe is at the level of the fuel at which point the fuel begins to "drip" from the tube. The dripstick was correct, but confusion over conversion factors made their calculations wrong. They had the number of pounds of fuel that they should have had kilos of fuel. Since 1 kg = 2.2 lbs, they made it about halfway.
Had this happen to me with a 91 pickup. My buddy’s son dropped a 351 into it (was a 302). We couldn’t get it to run. It just coughed and backfired. I was going by the chilton manual, which was wrong.Doesn't it suck when someone writing the manual is dyslexic
Buddy had an old Bronco jacked up on 44's with a Hurst shifter on the floor.
He decided to do a tune up. Instead of getting the plugs, plug wires, and distributer cap first, he pulled everything off.
He then went to discount auto and got what he needed. Then once it came to installing the distributer cap, rotor and attaching the plug wires, he was at a loss.
So he called the auto parts store for the firing order so he could hook it all back up. Didn't work.
I then called and got the firing order and couldn't figure it out.
Finally he got fed up and sold it for cheap.
The guy who bought it had his wife drive him over. Didn't bring a trailer, and they showed up in a little car.
Guy did the paperwork, handed over the money, got the keys.
He then walked out to the Bronco, popped the hood, disconnected the distributer cap, rotated it 180° and reattached it.
Jumped in and fired the bronco up
Chilton and Haines manuals had the firing order reversed.