I f*in hate this car.

you say you worked on jags for years??????????????
I CALL BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!
anyone with any little bit of common sence and has any wrench turning ability would of figured out why your dist. cap was not going back on.

everyone on here trying to point you in the right direction, but to me, it seems as though all you want is pity.

nuff said. i'm out!

Since you called "bullshit" :

Me with my 2 Jaguars - both project cars built from the ground up - (April 2007.)

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f252/sublimeskunk37/Picture013.jpg

A Jaguar engine I built from the bottom up:


http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f252/sublimeskunk37/ppictture012.jpg



Anyways, I don't want pity. I want help, and these guys are helping me for which I am eternally indebted to them for it. Try having Fibromyalgia at age 27 and go from making $60,000 a year to minimum wage with a body that's as durable/reliable as a Chevy Vega and get 19 hours a week at that job. I had to retire from working on cars at age 26. That's pretty sad dude, wouldn't you say? Then on top of that, figure in the fact that your daily driver doesn't drive which means you have to walk 10 miles to work, plus rent's due in 3 days and you ain't got the money.

Look, I'm not trying to throw a pity party and if I'm whining/bitching, it's the least of my intentions. At least I have a job and a vehicle, running or not. I'm honest and I'm genuine and that's what I am on this board. Every post you have seen me type is of raw, genuine emotion. Yes I can work on a stranger's ,a friend's or even my wife's car and I'll diagnose it / repair it very quickly and properly. (Body permitting.) But if it's my car and I'm in the situation I'm in - no...I can't. I'm doing it now, but very slowly because my back is acting up again. I'm gonna figure this freakin' problem out because I have to.

You gotta play with the hand you're dealt with man, and I am. I might blow off some steam of having the metaphorical equivalent of a 3/9 offsuit, but I'll make something out of it.