Heard an interesting tale once, whose moral I forget but it was aimed at fixers of obscure faults.

Seems that in the days before domestic freezers, this guy went to the store every Sunday lunchtime to buy ice cream for dessert, but the car would only start for the trip home if he bought vanilla. Any other flavour, and the engine would turn over but not fire. This happened consistently, week after week.

Now, the vanilla ice cream was kept at the front of the freezer, with the other sorts at the back. Turned out that the extra time taken to locate a non-vanilla variety was just long enough to allow a fuel vapour lock to form in the partly warmed engine...

Which may or may not be relevant in this case.

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