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Originally Posted by NOHOME
Its funny cause it used to be normal. Cars broke down and we fixed them on the side of the road pretty much regardless of what it was. Never did a gearbox or clutch, but starters, bakes, fuel pumps (cause I drove Brit shit) and balljoints...yeah  
Not something you see anymore. ........... |
Yep, fer sure.
Reminds me of back-in-the-day in Connecticut, I took my oldest son (about 8 years old at the time) with me to pick up some "free" firewood, in a recently lumbered area, way the hell out in nowhere.
Yep, fired up my 1956 Ford step side pickup truck, threw a chain saw in the back and off we went. After I got it loaded, I was driving out of the logging area and didn't see this one stump.
Bam! I hit it straight on and bent the heck out of the tie rod. The front wheels were almost looking at each other, sort of like this / ----- \
So I whipped the bent tie rod off and was walking down the logging road with my boy in one hand and the bent tie rod in another, when a nice man in an old truck pulled up and just knew what my problem was.
So, he offered me a ride to his place and fired up a torch and beat the rod straight over a piece of RR rail with a sludge hammer. He then took us back to our truck. I put the tie rod back on and eyeball "aligned" the front end and off we went.
Yep, got a whole load of firewood "free" ......
Nope it wasn't snowing and it was only uphill going up the mountain ......
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