Some people!!!!! (Rant)

My brother-in-law!
He has a 77 Ford 3/4 ton camper special pickup. Low gears in rear.
He stopped by the other day and said he was having overheating problems.
As we talked abt it, he said he has to keep resetting timing!
I asked if his distributor was loose? He said no, he just needs to keep setting it back to factory.
I asked him what the number is, he said 0 degrees.
Just then his wife piped up with " He keeps putting in neutral at stops and revs the poop out of it"!
I asked him why he does that and he said he is trying to get it to run better!
I then watched him set timing...I said don't you think you should plug that vacumn line?
He said why?
This has been going on for sometime now.
I looked and it seems like he has been jumping time due to a wornout timing chain. Reason I believe that is his reving in neutral is causing chain to jump.
He said "I replaced chain back in 2014. How long should it last"?
I asked him how he found TDC on #1 to replace chain and his response was "HUH?"

Now there is a mech nearby who will replace chain and gears for abt $300.00!
I was going to have truck towed to shop from NC to Ga and he said " I will just drive it over". They have already been stranded from overheating a few times.
Then today they called me and said" We talked with my cousin Dave and a college guy who knows abt CARBS, and he said they need the headgasket replaced! This is a Ford 460. Two heads of course. Now these two don't have a pot to PISS in, but some guy said to change head gasket so they are leaning toward that! Incredible!!!!
They have no idea how big a job that is, besides expense for wrong reason.
So I said "Good luck, let me know how it turns out"!

P.S. I was going to lone them #300.00 to have mech replace chain, where the hell are they going to get money for 1 head gasket replacement?

My departed wife got them a cheap car and they complained they had to put abt $500.00 into it to make it reliable!
WTF is it with some people?

Rant over,, true story!