BeepBeepRR
Well-Known Member
I have had this very same situation.. However the guy is 46 years old same age as me. Now if you talk to his kids they will tell you he is the best mechanic around. He had a ford E350 box van that didn't run. 351 So he says if you get it to run I will give you that 383 I have in the garage. I spent hours working on this pile of ****. First dropped the gas tank and cleaned it out. Then both fuel pumps then it wasn't triggering the pumps to fuel the truck, spent hours tracking down the wiring to find out all of the relays were fried. replaced them. The truck fired up and ran. Gave him the keys and said its done and it fires right up.
So he goes out and fired it up and says.. Man it has water in the oil. Can you do head gaskets.. My reply was Dude I got it running like you asked. I'm not rebuilding this pile of **** too. Not for an old 383 that I have never even seen. So far its been almost a year and still no 383 sitting in my garage. His excuse is its in the back of his horder stuffed garage and he cant get to it. So I wont do **** for him again until that 383 sees my garage. Not to mention other **** I have done for him.
On the other side of the coin. JJ with the GTX is 75 years old and an Army vet. I work on his car and never charge him a thing. He either insists on paying me or he just gives me the parts i took off to replace with new stuff. This was how I got the HP manifolds and the ignition setup. But Id rather not even charge him. I went to his house because he had an oil leak. Turns out it was the cheap plastic sender on the back of the block. The one we bought was wrong so he ended up changing it himself. 75 years old and still wrenching his own car. I have respect for him.
So he goes out and fired it up and says.. Man it has water in the oil. Can you do head gaskets.. My reply was Dude I got it running like you asked. I'm not rebuilding this pile of **** too. Not for an old 383 that I have never even seen. So far its been almost a year and still no 383 sitting in my garage. His excuse is its in the back of his horder stuffed garage and he cant get to it. So I wont do **** for him again until that 383 sees my garage. Not to mention other **** I have done for him.
On the other side of the coin. JJ with the GTX is 75 years old and an Army vet. I work on his car and never charge him a thing. He either insists on paying me or he just gives me the parts i took off to replace with new stuff. This was how I got the HP manifolds and the ignition setup. But Id rather not even charge him. I went to his house because he had an oil leak. Turns out it was the cheap plastic sender on the back of the block. The one we bought was wrong so he ended up changing it himself. 75 years old and still wrenching his own car. I have respect for him.