Terry a recent female high school grad working in my wife's office where
they ship business forms and checks all over the world told my wife that
Hawaii was a country and there was 52 states. They are constantly asking
her how to spell words because they can't even get the word close enough
for the spell checker in the computer to work. That makes a case for the
type of education you mentioned kids get now a days too. The guys at the
auto parts store go out of the way to find parts for me and all the
other customers with new cars. They also use the telephone to call
around to different warehouses besides their own to find somthing.
Rarely do I have to wait more than a day or two for a part. Three day's
for my idler arm from the Moog factory in Tennessee. Why can't the
chains do this?
"Doc"
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- From: <twa1950@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 19:45:55 -0700 (PDT)
AMC74HORNET@xxxxxxxxx wrote:To: BaadAssGremlins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxLuke my experience with chain stores is poor. Most of them can't or
don't know how or are too lazy to find a part if it is not listed on a
computer screen. Never mind what a cross over part no# book is. There
are a lot of parts from different cars that all interchange. I have 71
Torino gas shocks in the front of my yellow 74 Hatchback . When Autozone
said that an idler arm was no longer available for my car my local
non-chain store had one for me in 3 days right from the factory in
Tennessee. I could go on and on about the other bad experiences over the
years with all of the chain stores. I got to the point that I only go to
a chain store for a floor mat or a door edge molding, my local non-chain
store gets me all the parts I need including a new 21 gallon gas tank
and the straps for my orange Hornet. The only thing they couldn't get
was a fuel gauge sender for the tank. That I got a NOS one from Kennedy
American. The computer age has left most people not knowing how to use
their brain. Shoes and sneakers closing with velcro so now they can't
tie a shoe lace, calculators allowed in schools to take math tests with
so they can't add or subtract or multiply without one, mechanics who
can't trouble shoot a car and repair it unless a machine tells them
what's wrong with it. I'll keep my old dependable cars and old
dependable brain and my non-chain auto parts store that I have delt with
for 21 years.
"Doc"
From: Luke Wardwell <horneteer2@xxxxxxxxx>< BR>Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 16:59:16 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: [BaadAssGremlins] Rear Tail Shaft Seal
Hey Doc, I was just wondering if you didn't like
"chain" parts stores. I work at one and I know what
those books are for. Hey I found a new radiator for my
Hornet in one of those books. I know how big chains
are impersonal, I just would like to say where I work
is different. I had my pinion seal replaced 5 years
ago, I think my mechanic found one at CarQuest. Go
find a place you can trust and stick to it.
Luke
--- AMC74HORNET@webtv.net wrote:
> If you are loosing that much oil you also have bad
> bearings in the
> carrier. I would suggest you find a non-chain auto
> parts store as the
> seal and bearings are almost over the counter parts
> here in N.Y. or from
> numerous AMC venders and the crush sleeve is
> available from the Jeep
> people. Did all the carrier bearings and seals and
> axel bearings and
> seals in my yellow car 2 years ago. Luckily my
> non-chain store parts man
> can read a paper parts book and will not take no for
> an answer if the
> computer says so.
> "Doc"
>
> > To: BaadAssGremlins@yahoogroups. com
> From: "cindylee_me2000" <cindylee_me2000@yahoo.com >
> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 14:51:34 -0000
> Subject: [BaadAssGremlins] Rear Tail Shaft Seal
>
> I have a 1975 Gremlin it is leaking oil from the
> rearend and I need a
> seal very badly,I am loosing a quart of oil a day. I
> live in the St.
> Louis area. Can anyone give me some idea where I can
> find one. The
> local parts stores claim they don't make them
> anymore.
>
>
>
>
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