Issue with the Parts Girl

[Rev]

This wasn't a parts person or a customer, but a wrecker driver. After adjusting my sending unit for the fuel guage, my car wouldn't get over 60 mph without cutting out and actually stalling. I knew it must be fuel starvation from what I had done but on the side of the freeway, I was pondering the situation. The hood was up with me poking around under there when a voice said "Let me just tow it to a shop".

I looked up and there was this wrecker driver looking over my shoulder. I said no, it would run but was cutting out at speed. He said no, it would never start or run. I said it would and that I didn't need a tow.

He insisted that it wouldn't run and that I needed a tow. I was getting a little perturbed about then as I wanted to be left alone to try to figure out why the cut out/stall.

Finally I said , " Why do you think it won't start/run?". He said "simple, it ain't got no battery".

To make a longer story shorter, the battery is mounted in the trunk, and I had kinked a flexible fuel line when I worked on the sending unit.

I fired it up and drove home at 50 mph where I found out the problem.

Rev