Thread: The Old Fart Won............

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I know what you mean when you talk about working on the daily driver. I remember many weekends (seemed to always be winter) replacing water pumps, radiators, and doing complete brake jobs. The kids were little and money always short.

Yep, I remember many days working late at night to get my daily running so I could go to work the next day........usually on my back in the snow. Back then it was just what you had to do because you had a wife and a couple of kids expecting dinner that night.

To change the plugs in the Northstar, the front 4 aren't bad, they are up front. But the back ones sit under coil packs that are under a crossbar that runs from shock tower to shock tower. That did it for me......I don't bend that way these days.

Don

Don,

I see now why you bit the bullet. In fact, just paid $2600 TO AMMCO to rebuild the tranny in the intrepid. Thought about doing it myself, I rebuilt the 727 in my I H Scout, but decided not this time, I've got too many other irons in the fire. I guess I am getting old.

Jack.

[QUOTE=Jack F;405088]Don,

I guess I am getting old.

Or smarter.......

Don

Hey guys you all had me smiling at your little stories and Don I can relate to you on the opening the hood/bonnet, looking at the confusion of stuff that some designer thought the car needs under there and slamming it down again and putting it in the "too hard basket". That happens to me every time I lift the bonnet on my BMW daily driver,and here in NZ., because it is what "they" call an exotic European automobile,one pays four times the normal amount to have it serviced.