Real technicians know better than to work on their own cars (bg). One's own car will always bite one. I haven't worked on my own car in 20 years.

But I can remember one time when I was about twenty I broke down while cruisin Miami Beach one night. I had a 56 Chevy and my dad had bought me a 350hp 327 crate motor for my graduation from highschool. It was a deal, we lived in Seattle and I got the motor if I drove the car to Florida after graduation. My dad knew if he got my car to Florida I would eventually stay (he worked fro UAL and I flew back and forth to Seattle from Miami numerous times in the next few years,13 bucks 1st class space available of course, even worked for Boeing one summer but my car was still in Miami and dad was right).

Anyway, that motor screamed and over the years I tore up atleast 20 differentials; the original 56 unit just couldn't take it. My Muncy four speed never wimpered. So we went, hitched a ride 40 miles south, to another car and a spare diff and off we went. Had that diff in by about 4:00AM and off we go only to find out that the problem still existed. I don't remember whether we actually fixed it there; been a long time but it turned out to be a front wheel bearing totally failed.

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Steve Brotherton
Continental Imports
Gainesville FL
Bosch Master, ASE Master, L1
33 years MB technician