Comment on About to ruin your whole day
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
My grandfather (a small plane mechanic and gadget guy since the 1930s) was always weirdly enamored by dashboard warning lights because, “In my day, you’d take the car for a drive on Sunday and spend the rest of the week fixing it. Problem lights would have been redundant.”
I’ve been thinking about nuggets like from him ever since acollierastro posted her spark plug video.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 days ago
What’s wild is that edge in the eighties when we were getting around to fuel injection. If you had a carb, you had to know a little bit about maintenance. But by like 87/88 everything is fuel injected and it’s awesome. Especially if you have port injection cause you’re cleaning your valves too. Worked with a WW2 vet who was explaining to me about when they first started adding sodium to valves and how revolutionary that was because they used to have to get their valves ground and reworked periodically. When have you ever heard anyone talk about their valves? But that’s like something people needed to know about back then.