CAT DOODY

Hey kid,

There is more to the business of trucking and truck repair that pushing the stoichiometric A/F ratio envelope.

 

Hell I was rebuilding engines, and doing fuel injection work before you were born son.

I built my first AB nozzle tester out of a cab jack pump, a lawnmower gas tank, and some valves and gauges a hydraulic guy gave me for free.

 

I started working on more interesting things like emergency power generation, pumping stations, Industrial process equipment, railroad MOW stuff


Trucks got boring. And all the idiots were starting to look alike.

Power problems come in after 6 idiots had their fingers in it. Everyone replaced a bunch of parts and damaged something else when they replaced them. Blue silicone boogers hanging out of the new pump and turbo someone bolted on the motor, because some moron used it with the gaskets because he wanted to "seal it up real good"

I find a deteriorated fuel line or a rubber band stuck in a fitting.

Give it back to them running strong and they cry about the bill for removing all the new parts and putting them back on right.

Put a new trolley valve in a truck tell the guy that his compressor is passing oil. A week later he comes back and tells me I sold him a defective valve because it's leaking oil.

Somebody blows out a bridge rectifier in their alternator trying to jump start their truck. You put a new rectifier in and they come back 2 months later to cry that their back up lights went out a week after you fixed the alternator and it's your fault because "it did something through the wires"

After a few years it gets to where you look at everyone that walks in the shop door like they are a "know it all" moron with BS coming out of their mouth.

Then there are the ones who's next door neighbor's brother in law told them what was wrong with their engine. "And he knows because he is an expert"

Those are the ones I wanted to kill.


Oh and electronics was always one of my strongest points.

 

I guess you haven't been a mechanic long enough to know.