Posted by Dan Bear Kelley on December 23, 2008 at 07:22:47 from (140.32.120.188):
In Reply to: Dear mr. zooeyhall posted by wegman in mn on December 14, 2008 at 18:07:55:
My wife grew up working on cars. Her step-father pulled a cracked 327 Chevy engine to replace it. He gave the cracked engine to my wife, and let her use his tools. She was told: Take it apart, and whenever you find something you don't understand, you come talk to me.
Funny story: Once when we were living in Texas, we had the starter go out on our Olds. This was one of those mid-70's Oldsmobiles in which the factory had installed a Chevrolet engine. So, things didn't quite fit as well as they should. So, I get home from work to find my wife up under the Olds, replacing the starter. At this time, I had been working at a place that required me to wear a tie every day. It was 100+ degrees with the humidity in the high 90%'s. It was the kind of weather where rain would simply steam back off the roads. And here's my wife, under the car, up to her armpits in this Oldsmobile. She hears me drive up, and she crawls out from under... and she is mad!! She is absolutely furious about that "*^#&$%" Oldsmobile! "You get that '&#$*%' starter out from under that car! Her clothes were soaked in sweat, and she was covered in grease. Here I was in my nice shirt and tie. Now, as I said, this was one of those Oldsmobiles with the Chevy engine, and there was only one way to get the starter out. If you move it forward, it hits the exhaust manifolds. Back, and you hit the firewall. Left, and you hit the block. Right and you hit the fender. The only way to get it out was to tip it straight up-and-down, and wiggle it straight down. Well, I had dealt with this problem before and knew the trick. So in my nice clothes, I leaned on the fender, reached under the car, flipped the starter to the right position, droped it down and handed it to her. She did not say a word. She simply clamped her mouth shut and stomped off to the house. Turns out she had been fighting this starter for an hour and a half. She refused to talk to me for a couple hours.
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