Posted by:
Lot's Wife
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Date: July 02, 2022 05:35PM
> Gladys, check your navel for Zarahemla!
How does that even make sense? What is a Zarahemla?
please see the provided link
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/zarahemlaMy FIL's vehicle would not start. My SIL had been driving it. I towed it back to their place to fix it. A quick inspection showed that the starter was not working. I could hear the solenoid engaging, but the starter was not working. Before I had the starter out to repair it, my SIL suggested that it was the solenoid on the starter that had failed. I asked my SIL why she thought that the solenoid had failed.
After being questioned on the issue, she had to admit that she did NOT really know what a solenoid really is or what it really does.
She had heard some one say "solenoid" in the past when the some one was talking about starters. That was as much as she knew about solenoids.
Before, I had said that the starter appeared to be the problem, she did not know that the starter was the problem. However, once I mentioned the starter, she was NOT going to miss her chance to say "solenoid" by blaming the solenoid.
She had actually heard the solenoid engage as the problem was being diagnosed, but it did not register with her because she did NOT know what a solenoid was or what it is supposed to do or what the sound of the solenoid engaging really was, but that did not stop her from so readily issuing her (totally incorrect) input, as solenoid is a really unusual word and it is really fun to say .......even if a person has no idea what they are really talking about ........which seems to happen to EOD a LOT.
FTR, disassembly of the removed starter showed that the brushes were totally worn out in the starter. The solenoid was not at fault, however saying the word "brushes" is not as fun or as catchy to say as "solenoid" whatever a "solenoid" is.