Same old FABO

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gdrill said:
Uneducated and stupid are not the same thing. Not even similar.

Tolerating bad behavior is referred to as erosion of standards. It is a bad thing in many instances, such as safety. But somebody not being literate can be the result of many different situations.
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I've got a friend of mine that can't read or write that well. He's second in command of the body shop at Cadillac, if he was a bit more literate he'd be running it. You know what, this guy builds THE baddest Mopars... if someone wants a mangled wreak, a frame rail, front clip put on, or a car restored, they take it and beg him to do it. He's literally the best I've ever seen. For example my buddy had most all the spot welds drilled out of his 71 Cuda for the entire front clip. Al came in there, finished it up, had the new clip on, and squared up in 3 hours.
 
Kern Dog said:
I don't see substandard English from you but I sure do from others that know nothing BUT this language.
I realize that this is not a formal setting and that perfect grammar isn't necessary to get your point across but some take it way too casual.
Rusty Rat Rod writes in a folksy, casual, Southern manner but you can clearly understand what he means. Others sometimes skip words, fail to use apostrophes and other punctuation, write run on sentences and FAIL to use question marks. That is laziness, not a lack of education or intellect.
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Sometimes that's also being in a hurry using voice to text and not proofreading... Guilty, I am
 
Mr. Sinister said:
Nothing political
My question was about whether or not there was an interest in an item.
I was asked questions by 2 members I answered them both and directed one of them to it’s location as it was local to him and available to anyone who was interested in it.
It was also not an item that I personally owned or had for sale.
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Ya, my bad. Until you posted this I didn't know you didn't own the transmission.
All I saw was:
1) Any interest in this transmission?
2) a couple questions about it followed by "I might be interested" from a member.
3) PM sent

I thought it had turned into a sale thread like these usually do so I took it down. After reading the above post on this thread and finding out that you don't own it, I put your original thread back up.. Had you posted that in the first post of your "Any interest" thread I would have left it alone.
 
In a lot of ways it is the same ol FABO.

People picking on others because they aren't eloquent writers. Tiresome and constant. Well done.

Plenty of intelligent people don't do well with writing. A guy that worked with my grandfather was similar to the gentleman that @Ironracer wrote of. Guy could read a blueprint and machine like a madman. Ask him to write a document about the process to get there, not going to happen. Simple as that. Not his wheelhouse and no interest in that aspect of business. But he's lazy. GTFOOH with that ****.
 
toolmanmike said:
Ya, my bad. Until you posted this I didn't know you didn't own the transmission.
All I saw was:
1) Any interest in this transmission?
2) a couple questions about it followed by "I might be interested" from a member.
3) PM sent

I thought it had turned into a sale thread like these usually do so I took it down. After reading the above post on this thread and finding out that you don't own it, I put your original thread back up.. Had you posted that in the first post of your "Any interest" thread I would have left it alone.
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That's pretty cool of ya Mike! Seems to me like the old boy was just trying to keep the ball rolling for other people...
 
crackedback said:
In a lot of ways it is the same ol FABO.

People picking on others because they aren't eloquent writers. Tiresome and constant. Well done.
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Hey Brother,I don't know if I had a chance to thank you personally. Someone explained to me your method of setting toe in. May have been 67Dart273, Caint remember.. at 45 mph I can stick both my hands out the window when my old lady killing me that car tracks straight! For about several hundred feet, it did not FLINCH! I probably could have kept going with it.... Much Appreciated!
 
Ironracer said:
Hey Brother,I don't know if I had a chance to thank you personally. Someone explained to me your method of setting toe in. May have been 67Dart273, Caint remember.. at 45 mph I can stick both my hands out the window when my old lady killing me that car tracks straight! For about several hundred feet, it did not FLINCH! I probably could have kept going with it.... Much Appreciated!
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Not sure if it was me... but that other old guy is pretty sharp. Cranky, but sharp. LOL Kind of describes me sometimes too.
 
crackedback said:
Not sure if it was me... but that other old guy is pretty sharp. Cranky, but sharp. LOL Kind of describes me sometimes too.
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All y'all here, including Rob, helped me move my car forward, real fast! in 2020 I went from having a car (and it didn't run)to having a car that ran and drove, in 6 months and did it out in the yard in the Florida heat in Bay Area rainy season! I'm just a carpenter man and I hate doing things twice so I tend to second-guess myself a lot so having professional opinions from everybody around here is a big deal! I can't remember who gave me your method of doing a towing job but it was your method they gave you credit for it! Homemade tremble bar two 4x4s and two two by three straight as an arrow stacked up the right underneath the wheel hub as high as you can get where you can measure from the front and then the back side of it! I just so happen to have a brand new tape measure so me and the old lady got out there I instructed her to push that stuff tight to the wheel (she's kind of a carpenter's Apprentice, And a Master 3rd Gen painter too) I also taught her to hold the dumb end with her finger so you can pull that 16th of an inch slack out.... we set it at 1/16" in on the front.... anyway, just giving credit and thanks, where credit and thanks are due Brother!

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Ironracer said:
All y'all here, including Rob, helped me move my car forward, real fast! in 2020 I went from having a car (and it didn't run)to having a car that ran and drove, in 6 months and did it out in the yard in the Florida heat in Bay Area rainy season! I'm just a carpenter man and I hate doing things twice so I tend to second-guess myself a lot so having professional opinions from everybody around here is a big deal! I can't remember who gave me your method of doing a towing job but it was your method they gave you credit for it! Homemade tremble bar two 4x4s and two two by three straight as an arrow stacked up the right underneath the wheel hub as high as you can get where you can measure from the front and then the back side of it! I just so happen to have a brand new tape measure so me and the old lady got out there I instructed her to push that stuff tight to the wheel (she's kind of a carpenter's Apprentice, And a Master 3rd Gen painter too) I also taught her to hold the dumb end with her finger so you can pull that 16th of an inch slack out.... we set it at 1/16" in on the front.... anyway, just giving credit and thanks, where credit and thanks are due Brother!

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I've used pepsi cans, a couple of pieces of 1x1 steel lengths and a measuring tape. Same basic approach. Nothing fancy like the friends place with the computerized 4 wheel alignment stuff.

I love the hillybilly cheap approach to getting stuff done. Same as the hillbilly timing tape thing. I got tired of paying for those POS things. Figured a better way that won't get lost! Cheap and cranky. :)

Thanks for the props. Did I spell everything correctly and use somewhat proper english here? Just want to check. DOH!
 
crackedback said:
I've used pepsi cans, a couple of pieces of 1x1 steel lengths and a measuring tape. Same basic approach. Nothing fancy like the friends place with the computerized 4 wheel alignment stuff.
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I called the shop that used to be local to my old house, before I got sick and lost it, they had a $100,000 alignment rack.... kind of pissed me off; they had me drop my car off there, promised me they could do it, in 10 minutes later, me and my friend were sitting at the Coffee table... the phone rang and the girl told me to come and get it they could not do it! But they drove my car... it wasn't where I left it! I had an 01 Dakota single cab, 5 speed with a 4.7 I took it to an alignment shop I start walking across the street to get something to eat and their tech is doing a burnout with my truck in the parking lot! Yeah I know that truck would white smoke those big old tires on the back, but that's for me to do! Ever since old Fred Cox on Florida Avenue retired, really nobody around works on these things anymore, so it seems like doing it yourself is the best way!
 
Those fancy computerized machines have presets in them that aren't exactly optimal for the older cars as well. Many techs, loosely using that term, only set things so the screen shows green, within tolerance and lock it down. They all prefer the toe and go set ups.

Throw in the upper eccentrics and stuff and their heads explode. Caster, camber??? caster good but camber out, how do I mess with these two eccentrics to get it correct. HUH??? Like watching youngsters try to make change at a cash register without assistance from a calculator or register. Painful.

Glad you are feeling better and got a handle on the toe in on your car. :thumbsup:
 
crackedback said:
I've used pepsi cans, a couple of pieces of 1x1 steel lengths and a measuring tape. Same basic approach. Nothing fancy like the friends place with the computerized 4 wheel alignment stuff.

I love the hillybilly cheap approach to getting stuff done. Same as the hillbilly timing tape thing. I got tired of paying for those POS things. Figured a better way that won't get lost! Cheap and cranky. :)

Thanks for the props. Did I spell everything correctly and use somewhat proper english here? Just want to check. DOH!
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Ah Hahaha ! Man I'm a southerner I try to cut through the Haze, long as you mean what you say! I definitely have been a low-buck guy my whole life myself! Other than alignments and tires I've only put one of my vehicles in a shop once in my entire life! That's cuz I was peace working metal framing on some condos and it was actually more beneficial to me and the crew for me to be there and just let someone else screw with it.... in retrospect, I should have took a damn day off, and went to a junkyard and pulled a gearbox for the steering, but had a guy rebuild it... anyhow that was 20 years ago... no problem on the props man whoever told me how to do it said it was your method of doing it!
 
crackedback said:
Those fancy computerized machines have presets in them that aren't exactly optimal for the older cars as well. Many techs, loosely using that term, only set things so the screen shows green, within tolerance and lock it down. They all prefer the toe and go set ups.

Throw in the upper eccentrics and stuff and their heads explode. Caster, camber??? caster good but camber out, how do I mess with these two eccentrics to get it correct. HUH??? Like watching youngsters try to make change at a cash register without assistance from a calculator or register. Painful.

Glad you are feeling better and got a handle on the toe in on your car. :thumbsup:
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Thank You Sir! Yeah, I've been the 100$ "Toe and Go" before. . I was wondering what the owner of the shop was telling the alignment Tech... and yes these poor kids with this Common Core math Man they've been screwed out of a crucial part of life man basic mathematics it's sad actually....
 
crackedback said:
Those fancy computerized machines have presets in them that aren't exactly optimal for the older cars as well. Many techs, loosely using that term, only set things so the screen shows green, within tolerance and lock it down. They all prefer the toe and go set ups.

Throw in the upper eccentrics and stuff and their heads explode. Caster, camber??? caster good but camber out, how do I mess with these two eccentrics to get it correct. HUH??? Like watching youngsters try to make change at a cash register without assistance from a calculator or register. Painful.

Glad you are feeling better and got a handle on the toe in on your car. :thumbsup:
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Roflmao . .
True ! !
 
**** I can't get my 2020 Caravan aligned. No one can do it and it's been done at the dealer a couple times. The thing has never tracked right.
 
RustyRatRod said:
It was probably removed, because like most "are you interested" or "what's it worth" threads, it almost always turns into a for sale thread. Frank, what I would do is just offer it up in the for sale section. Unless it's slant 6 stuff, then PM me about it. LOL
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crackedback said:
In a lot of ways it is the same ol FABO.

People picking on others because they aren't eloquent writers. Tiresome and constant. Well done.

Plenty of intelligent people don't do well with writing. A guy that worked with my grandfather was similar to the gentleman that @Ironracer wrote of. Guy could read a blueprint and machine like a madman. Ask him to write a document about the process to get there, not going to happen. Simple as that. Not his wheelhouse and no interest in that aspect of business. But he's lazy. GTFOOH with that ****.
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That’s true. Some of the brightest, smartest most inventive and creative people, and maybe the most mechanically inclined I have worked with have been dyslexic.

At first, it’s a bit hard to read what they write. But once you get the hang of it you can understand exactly what they are saying.

As an early teen (14…you could get a food handlers card back then and work…today not so much) I worked with a guy who was a high level chef. This guy would make stuff for us to eat that wasn’t on the menu and this was gourmet.

One day I asked him why he wasn’t working at higher class restaurant, and he said I can’t read or write for ****. I thought he was kidding, but he showed me how he laid out for the other cooks what he wanted. When it came to omelets a “rat with magic“ was a cheese and mushroom omelet.

He had the whole menu configured that way and sadly, he misspelled quite a few words keeping it that simple. He said he writes it like it looks and sounds to his mind.

So yes, learning disabilities doesn’t always mean a lack of intelligence.

In fact, I just thought of another one. Henry Winkler. He’s dyslexic. And his father was horribly harsh on him as a young boy. He thought he was lazy and stupid but the dyslexia was hampering him.

Interestingly enough, he and his wife have published like 20 something books for kids. And I think they are specifically targeted to kids with learning disabilities.
 
I get the frustration sometimes when trying to help and punctuation/grammar is "difficult" to say the least. BUT lots of them are probably good people. That's where the difference like Gdrill said between ignorant and uneducated is.
I would rather share a beer/conversation with someone uneducated than ignorant.
Theres a little beady eyed f**k here I put on ignore because his wife proofreads for "who gives a f**k" and he thinks it's his mission to correct everybody lmao.
Beady eyed f**k :lol:

**edit** the BEF was put on ignore after we got into an argument and he thought he would make disparaging childish remarks about my avatar, which is a picture of my deceased Dad. So yeah hes a BEF and he knows it...goof!
 
clementine said:
Was that a 5 sp? or a 4 speed. I thought the 4 speeds were ok and the 5's were the problematic deals.

#hijack#4
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you're correct, it was a 4spd OD.

i had tuned out after some digging back thru old posts on the matter made me hesitant on the part being offered and the attitude of the seller turned me off.

i just thought it was bullshit in that legitimate questions were being asked and the seller was openly hostile and clearly withholding pertinent information that would be relevant to the part at hand.

but, not my circus; not my monkeys.
 
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