Lanse,,You remind me

in your post regarding the release bearing on your B of when I was a youth with gears in my head.Frustration somtimes teachs temprance and other things I can't spell.The one that stands out from the others was the week I spent after school and chores with a drop-light, outdoors changing the front u-joint in my truck "WITHOUT DROPPING THE DRIVESHAFT".(I didn't know the rear unbolted).I would like to hear what others consider their crowning grease under the nails ocomplishment in spite of it all.

I have a lot in my lifetime. One that comes to mind in my haste putting my jeep transmission together I somehow put the one of the gears in backwards, and only had low and reverse. Never enough time to do it right, but time to do it over again. Stan

I always think of this every time I watch or read one of the Lanse vs AC chapters. I must have been about 13 someone gave Dad a 58 Opel. It was a really nice little car {looked a miniature 57 chevy} that had a stripped timing gear. My brother and I were chomping at the bit to work on it. The day after He got it He had a guy that owed him a favor pull the motor and take it apart. When we got home from school the engine was scattered across a sheet of plywood rod and main caps separated and unnumbered, even then I knew enough that it was a total loss. We found another one that had been rolled over and the engine was laying in the in the trunk. Dad bought it for $40 and gave it to us. We set into to working on it but it was like a jig saw puzzle because we had not taken either one apart. Took us a while but we got it put together, but it would not run seems like we pulled it around for a month with a 3010. I knew we had fire at the points but not at the spark plugs. I was afraid to ask Dad so i talked to the old guy in the community that could fix anything and He said "does the rotor button look all right" and I said "Whats that? So he told me what it looked like and where it went. When we got home I looked in the trunk with the spare parts found what he described put it in, pulled it off and it fired right up. Lasted about thirty minutes and seized up. We had knocked a hole in the oil pan when were putting it in. Just remember Lanse going down the road of life it's good to read a map but it's better to to get directions from someone who has already been there.
Ron

I Was 14 the old fellas son next door had a 1952 Willys automobile he wanted to sell 6 cyl. 3 speed on column with overdrive.the shifter was broke off at the column but was in fairly good condition.

someone painted a murial of Dennis the menace on the trunk lid. it was cute and being red and looked like a Cadillac in the back and a Ford in front I had to have it.


He wanted 35.00 for it so I made a deal to work for a month to pay for it,incidentally turned into my first paying job for a dollar a day.

It wouldn't stay in second gear and Dad didn't want me to have a car on the road till I got my real job at $.75 an hr to pay for my own insurance and he helped me buy my road car 1952 chevy for $75.00 and ended up junking the Willys

I failed on that one and never forgot it because I hadn't the knowledge or the mechanical ability to make that Willys road worthy.

If I had that same car today and the ambition that Lance has I'd have a car that would be comparable in price to a 2 or 3 year old car,today's prices.

I have to wait till all goes to bed to watch his videos.

Trying to clean up his language.

I only Have a 9th grade education but in those 9 years I learned enough English I don't need all those four letter words ,because it never made me a bigger man and only made people think I was something I wasn't.

Other than that I respect Lance and I'm proud that he don't give up although he threatens to, we're all like that at times.

I never had the opportunity of someone going out of their way to help with anything, or a "parts fairy".

You Guys are great! and brought a tear to my eye to know there are still people like you out there.