(November 13, 2018 at 4:09 pm)onlinebiker Wrote:(November 13, 2018 at 4:05 pm)Fireball Wrote: Learned all my mechanical skills as OJT. By the time I stopped working as a mechanic (graduated university) I was ASE certified for engine tune-up and repair, air conditioning and brakes, and held state licenses for brakes, lamps and SMOG repair. I can overhaul everything from the engine cooling fan to the differential* on cars made before all the sophisticated stuff came out, but could probably do them with a manual- I'm more than a little rusty. Back in the day I used to drag race (street- that was stupid) and road race (mountains- that was even stupider). I have dead friends to prove how stupid those activities are. Raging hormones, what can I say? I'll be pulling the engine out of my '70 Chevy truck soon to overhaul it. Still waiting for my hands to heal enough from surgeries done last year.
*I don't bother to overhaul automatic transmissions or air conditioning compressors- they take too many one-use specialty tools.
My first vehicle was 1970 C-10. 350 4 bbl quadrajunk and a 400 tranny.
Put a cap on back - with a bed and carpeting....
Gotta keep yer priorities straight...
Shaggin' Wagon FTW. My current truck is inherited from my FiL after he dies. My MiL could never drive the thing, so it went to my wife. We put a shell on it a year ago February after the original one rotted to pieces. No furniture in it yet, just piled up stuff for camping- what doesn't fit in the travel trailer.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
