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Re: A rubber (tube) in your ear was Re: Ray's Toadmotor

To: Marcus Tooze <tooze@vinny.cecer.army.mil>
Subject: Re: A rubber (tube) in your ear was Re: Ray's Toadmotor
From: "W. Ray Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 1994 17:06:49 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 24 Oct 1994, Marcus Tooze wrote:

> >   (rest deleted)       
> > Hmmmm.... this sounds kinda kinky ;). Seriously, could you elaborate on the 
> > tube in your ear method of checking for vacuum leaks???
> > 
> Of course. You simply take a 2 feet piece of rubber tubing, and stick
> both ends in either ear. If you here a faint rushing type of noise, you 
> indeed have a vacuum leak. If some of you should hear nothing at all, 
> then the vacuum between your ears is still intact.

To think an innocent question about improving the idle on my bugeye could
cause all this.  And how did it get to be my toad motor??  I wanted
*idle* expertise, not *idleness* expertise.

Ray "An idle mind's the devil's workshop" Gibbons






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