Boy Craig, bet your gonna live to regret this statement.
"Cmon you guys, don't you have confidence in your trucks???"
Good example popped up the other day. A buddy who is pretty
thorough in his work is doing a complete restoration on a '53.
Last week he got enough of it together to take her out on a run
around the neighborhood with the neighbor in the copilot seat.
The got a few blocks from the house and all of a sudden it
started running rough and then quit. All the ignition was
replaced with new parts during the rebuild and he'd run the
truck up in the drive many times since he finished rebuilding
the engine. After checking things out he found that the
spot weld on one of the tungsten point contacts had broken off
and the contact was laying in the bottom of the distributor.
Bringing the gap back down allowed them enough run time to limp
back home.
So, it's not always the fault of the mechanic, but more often
now days the poor quality of the parts that we are stuck with.
Point being, if he hadn't had some tools on board he might have
been stuck with a "toe?" or a long walk home to get tools and
spare parts.
I wouldn't fault anyone for carrying a basic tool kit and spare
ignition parts at any time, even if it were just driving around
town on a daily basis.
Denny Graham
Sandwich, IL
Last edited by Denny Graham; 07/13/2013 10:56 PM.
