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From: Tegger on 23 Mar 2010 21:05 kludge(a)panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote in news:hobho5$6hv$1 @panix2.panix.com: > N8N <njnagel(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>That reminds me of the last suspension job I did myself... on my '55 >>Studebaker. I got it all back together, eyeballed it and called it >>good, and drove up to the alignment shop. I brough the shop manual >>with me, with a sticky note on the page with the alignment specs and >>procedures. They were unable to align the one front wheel - I tore >>that corner back apart and here the NOS trunnion that I'd bought >>didn't have the recess for the hex key to adjust it stamped in it! >>D'OH! >> >>I think they felt sorry for me, because they only charged me a couple >>bucks extra when I brought it back instead of charging me for a whole >>'nother alignment. > > No, they felt sorry for you because you're driving a '55 Studebaker. > > I get the same sort of response when I call the BMW dealer up and ask > for points and plugs. You're buying plugs at the dealer? What kind does your Bimmer/Beemer take? In 1965, Mr. Nagel's ownership of that Stude would have pegged him as a schoolteacher, bookkeeper, or grocery-store clerk. In 2010 it makes him a rakish daredevil; if he was a skydiver, he'd be the kind that would jump out of the airplane without checking to see if he was actually wearing his kid's backpack by mistake. -- Tegger
From: Scott Dorsey on 24 Mar 2010 17:06
N8N <njnagel(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >I've been able to buy Bosch Supers at my FLAPS, although I haven't had >to in quite a while. I share your opinion of the platinums, they are >just not suitable for carbureted engines, foul a plug and you have to >replace it, period. I have had clerks try to upsell me to platinums, >no thank you! I don't want supers! I want silvers! Although frankly I have not tried the supers in many years and if I could get them locally I'd try them. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |