My C3 plays golf
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Drifting
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From: Catlett VA
My C3 plays golf
After watching two perfect top-down days go by with my 68 convert on jack stands waiting for the front cross over brake line to arrive, I got the !@#$%^&* thing installed (fun job involving removing fan shroud) late in the day. I did a quick timing check, since I suspected the distributor had moved (more on that later), and headed out the driveway. It was a nice drive, except there seemed to be a lag and loss of power. After parking the car in the garage, I did my usual check to make sure nothing had come loose, broken or otherwise fxxxed up. Everything was were I left it- including the golf tee I used to block the vacuum line when I set the timing. Probably why it ran like a dog. I think I got a bogey on this hole.
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Drifting
Joined: Jul 2015
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From: Catlett VA
golf tee
Thanks for all the clever replies with golf humor. Makes me feel a whole lot better. I suppose if I had plugged the vacuum line with a swizel stick there would have been a flurry of bar room humor. 
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Drifting
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From: Blanco County, TX
As long as you didn't take a swing at it with an 8 iron.
All these years I thought I was the only one to use a golf tee for plugging the vacuum line. That's what dad always used so it must be the right way to do it.
All these years I thought I was the only one to use a golf tee for plugging the vacuum line. That's what dad always used so it must be the right way to do it.
