The funny thing is, one of the more senior techs was kinda keeping an eye on me too. I put the roll pin in my ash tray so I wouldn't loose it and forgot about it. Put it all together, timed it, fired right up, and ran great for about 2 weeks. Then I got on her one day and it was nothing but trouble until I decided to park her.
Left her set and revisited the problem in my head from time to time until one slow day at work during the summer it hit me like a lead pipe in the face. Went and asked my new mentor (since the last place had gone out of business) if that could happen from leaving the pin out, he said "Yes" followed by a few derogatory statement about the intelligence of both me and Tom (who he knew). I went home after work, went back to the truck, pulled out the ash tray, and sure enough, there was my pin.
