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Re: The $1,000 lifter. Long and sad
I’ve got a mega dollar story for you!
My buddies mil had a 76 Nova. 305 auto. Your basic run of the mill car. It was mid winter. Generally around zero temps. Car had no power so a tune up was done. Fixed a few things along with a tune up. 300 bucks. Ran great for one day then back to the same thing. Back to the shop for a carb and distributor redo. Another 400 bucks. Good again for one day. Back again. Gotta be a need for rebuilt heads. 800 more. Runs good again. More power for only one day. Gotta be the cam, right. New cam, lifters, chain. 800 more. Wow! Now we’re honking. Wrong again! Back to the shop. They keep it inside for a week. Start it every day. Take it for a spin around the block. All is good!
Wrong again!
Same thing, no power. Back to the shop. Lots of head scratching. For some reason the mechanic trips and wacks his head on the muffler and above the cursing you can hear the loud thump from the muffler. He gets right pissed and wacks the muffler with his ballpeen. The muffler is rock solid. Solidly frozen actually! Condensation build up from not running long enough would freeze overnight and create the no power thing. So another 200 for a muffler. She’s happy now. Poorer though! It was one of those above the rear ended mufflers.
Sorry about that. Got carried away. Sorry if I jacked your thread a bit.
And yes i’ve been a victim of the same ‘snowball effect’ while fixing stuff. Started out on a rear main once and ended with a 6-71 huffer on top. Well worth it though!
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