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Steven Kephart

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Posted: March 08, 2007 at 11:03 PM / IP Logged

I can't count how many times I've done that. In fact I replaced my timing belt on my car, then found afterward the problem to be the screw on the rotor in the distributor had come off allowing it to free-spin.

Another humbling experience once was accidently using the wrong terminal on the battery for an amp install, then using the other battery terminal for my test light to make sure the fuse was good. The fuse of course tested good (power flowing the other direction), so my conclusing was that I had a break in the new, 4 awg wire I just ran. I was embarassed when I figured out the truth.

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kassdog

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Posted: March 09, 2007 at 3:58 PM / IP Logged

My experience came when I installed an amp,sub,speakers,deck into an suv. Installed the amp under the drivers seat and grounded it about 6 inches away. Well get everything done and testing it out. Everytime i turned more than 25% of the way it cuts out. I assume its a speaker wire(ran new wire to speakers). Nothing then I proceed to basically switch out everything. Everytime I test something new I get nothing. Finally after a day of testing I just happen to stumble accross the ground and guess what, it's loose. From that point on I always check grounds first.

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