After 3+ long weeks of having my car stuck in the garage she galloped down the road again, the whole family got to enjoy the test run.
The short story (something I'm not good at obviously) is that I've got a metric car in a decidedly standard world. Don't even think about going to your local auto parts store in Southern Alabamy and asking Bubba for a 12mm Banjo Fitting with a Barbed end. Hell, once you find one of those, pay a rediculous amount of money for a funny looking bolt to be sent to you from somewhere else in the country and just need a regular old bolt in a size with "millimeter" on the back and some small fuel hose, they still look at you like you are crazy.
My favorite conversation is this: [This is what I need from you] (Bubba) "What year and model car is this for" (the Geek) "It's for an old 911 but I have a mixture of parts, I'm telling you what I need to make them work together" (Bubba) "So what year and model car is this for?" (Geek) "fine, it's a '75 Porsche 911" (Bubba) "I don't see a part number for anything you are talking about" (Geek) "no $h1t? This is why I'm telling you what I need"
Apparently even mechanics have gone to a lack of imagination in making something work if the computer doesn't tell you a number.
So anyway, I finally got it working, seems buttoned up and not leaking. So far it's starting without hesitation, and I'll know tomorrow morning if I've really fixed my awful hard start problem that's plagued me for 5 months now.
For now, I'll call this a victory, with wind in my hair :)
