Gauge Clusters
I like haveing gauges over "idiot lights".. .
As usual "I have a story" and I never have been paid, either
In the eighties, a divorcee a friend of mine and I knew, had her husbands RS 'Maro. Full gauges. Evidently the water pump started to leak, and at some point it leaked enough that it overheated. The gauge made no impression on the female driver. So she just drove it until it would not run. For the record, she's a redhead.
So she enlisted me "for money" to figure out what to do.
The orange paint on the ends of the cylinder heads was COOKED BLACK
I got the engine out, and it had coolant in more than one hole. I pulled the heads. Ever over--heated tempered steel and watched the pretty colored rainbow in the metal? yeh......That's how the cylinder walls looked.
So I TOLD here there is NO WAY I'd rebuild that engine.......either find a good used engine, or buy a rebuilt.
She found a used engine, made arraingements and as it was up in my home town, I went up and got it one weekend, visiting my parents. I didn't get paid for THAT extra work, EITHER.
So this is in the eighties. No www. I guess this second engine was a 400 I put it in the car and it shook and it USED OIL.
NOW IT's MY FAULT. IT'S MY FAULT that SHE found a USED ENGINE that was WORE OUT and now that I've put it in the car IT'S MY FAULT.
So I said "FINE" you go talk to the guy you bought that engine from.
She calls me back. "There's nothing wrong with my old engine!!! He can rebuild it!!!!!"
I told her "FINE!!! Don't you COME BACK to me a year from now, CRYING that your rebuilt engine is burning lots of oil.
So OK. About a year goes by, more or less. Her friend "Herbie" came in one day, he can barely stand up he's laughing so hard!!!!
"Just saw XXXXXX's Camaro. It's got a cloud behind it so big you won't believe it!!!!"
