good on ya and don't feel bad about being baffled. I have to call in someone else occasionally to get their opinions. seems every time they have a solution real quick.
flashback to quite afew years ago-car related:
ford Fairmont. my brother in laws car. started runnin real rough and knew it hadn't had a tune up in forever. plugs,rotor,cap(THATwas in real bad shape),wires, rebuilt the carb...still ran rough....., through the carb again, check electrical system...still runnin terrible, checked timing. couldn't get it timed. then went to backfire through both carb and exhaust mode. had us both baffled. called a friend to come over. he came over. explained everything to him. he grabbed a wrench, pulled the distributor and said,"look at this. the gear is held on with a roll pin and it sheared,prolly jammed in place justout of time for a bit then spun some more causing the timing issue and all the problems."
30 friggin minutes and he had it fixed.
ran great for another week.....then he hit( believe it or not) a cow and totaled it. ford fairmonts dont fair too good in head on collisions with cows.
