Back in 1976 I bought an AD truck for $125. I don't remember what year or model it was but it had the shifter on the floor and the drive shaft had a carrier bearing on the drive shaft. I had just graduated high school and needed a truck to do some local remodeling jobs until I started college in the fall. I made a run to a building material supplier to get a load of dropped ceiling tiles and grid work. On the way home traveling down the interstate the carrier bearing failed and the drive shaft sounded like a dryer with a load of bricks in it. I pulled over on the high speed lane side of the interstate. I walked up and down the emergency strip until I found a length of stiff wire. I crawled under the truck, made a cradle for the drive shaft to ride in and surprisingly made it home (about 10 miles) before the drive shaft could burn through the wire. I learned how to jury rig "stuff" form my dad, who grew up on a farm during the depression. It is s struggle to this day to make myself do things the right way instead of re-engineering with what have at hand.
