Re: The needle that fell out of the haystack

[davidk]

Thanks for the replies, fellas! The gear adjustment guidelines are very timely.

This would be a great prank! I sure hope non of my PTBC friends are reading this…..

There weren’t any allen head set screws in that motor originally.
Could be a replacement or somehow got dropped in one
of your parts containers when you weren’t looking?????

I like the spare parts story. They were talking about that on Car Talk once and they said that eventually you have enough pieces left over to make another car.

In a related story, we bought a used Suburu for my daughter, from my mechanic. The guy was impressed that my daughter had saved up $3000 to buy her own car, and he gave us/her a great deal. In prepping the car, he discovered that the AWD wasn’t working right so he disabled it and asked us to come back in a few weeks and he’d repair it. Well, I forgot about it and we had a snow storm coming up, and he called us to schedule the repair. (sweet). It took longer than expected. He called me the second day to say that "one of the boys" put in a new AWD kit, got it all assembled, and ended up with an extra washer. He wasn’t satisfied with that so he took it all apart again and installed the missing washer. AND, he wouldn’t accept any payment for the work.

If you turn off the news for awhile, there are plenty of reasons to feel hopeful about the world.