So how long did it take you to notice that nobody was laughing? I'm asking because I had a similar thing with a knock knock joke I kept doing at work. Took me like two years before a coworker finally told me to stop. The worst part is you get so used to the silence that you start thinking people are just being polite or they don't get it. Did you ever catch your nephew rolling his eyes before he said something, or did it just fly completely over your head the whole time?

Buddy of mine out in Oklahoma had the same exact reaction. He was doing a patch on an old cargo trailer frame, swore up and down it would never hold. Couple months later he hit a pothole so hard it nearly shook the fillings out of his teeth but that composite fix didn't even flinch. He's been telling everyone he knows to at least try it once. Sometimes you just gotta let the new stuff prove itself, you know?

Man you know what, I used to think that whole "cup coming out with the injector" thing was just tall tales from guys who didn't know what they were doing? Like maybe they just yanked on it wrong or didn't clean the bore right. But after hearing your story and seeing how it went down, I'm changing my tune completely. That's the kind of thing that makes you second guess every job you do on these trucks. Honestly it sounds like you handled it better than most would have. Driving 45 minutes back to town to borrow a kit beats trying to rig something up and cracking the head. I bet every time you pull an injector now you've got that tool sitting right there just in case. Lesson learned the hard way, but at least you know for next time.

Jeez, and I thought I was being cheap with my own foam rod purchase. Guess I'm just bad at bargain hunting, classic me.

Did you grease the spindle and the pedal threads when you installed it? A lot of people skip that on FSA stuff and it creaks like crazy. Also check if the wave washer on the non-drive side is seated right because I've seen those shift around on the Gossamers and cause all sorts of noise.