RockAuto has a monthly newsletter that has a customer contributed humor story at the bottom. They're usually worth reading. This month's gave me a chuckle, here it is:
As a young man I worked pumping gas at a local service station and when not busy, helped out in the garage. One day we had a car in that had a broken distributor cap. The cap had been replaced recently, so the mechanic was trying to figure out what the problem was to no avail.
The service station sold candy and pop, and kids from the school would stop in and buy it when they were walking home. One of these kids overheard our discussion about the broken distributor cap and said the car had a broken motor mount. At the time, the mechanic disregarded the advice, but when all else failed, remembered what the kid had said. So he jacked up the engine, and sure enough, a broken motor mount was the problem. The kid got a free soda, and the mechanic found out the kid's dad had the same car...and the same problem. When it was put under power the engine would shift, and the distributor cap was close enough to the firewall that it would crack when banging into it.
If I remember right it was a Chrysler, but that was about 60 years ago. I still enjoy working on cars and remember that kid's lesson to this day.
Jack in Alaska
As a young man I worked pumping gas at a local service station and when not busy, helped out in the garage. One day we had a car in that had a broken distributor cap. The cap had been replaced recently, so the mechanic was trying to figure out what the problem was to no avail.
The service station sold candy and pop, and kids from the school would stop in and buy it when they were walking home. One of these kids overheard our discussion about the broken distributor cap and said the car had a broken motor mount. At the time, the mechanic disregarded the advice, but when all else failed, remembered what the kid had said. So he jacked up the engine, and sure enough, a broken motor mount was the problem. The kid got a free soda, and the mechanic found out the kid's dad had the same car...and the same problem. When it was put under power the engine would shift, and the distributor cap was close enough to the firewall that it would crack when banging into it.
If I remember right it was a Chrysler, but that was about 60 years ago. I still enjoy working on cars and remember that kid's lesson to this day.
Jack in Alaska
