Well, I almost can't believe it. Today I pulled my '74 MGB from the
garage it has been sitting in for the past two months and actually
*drove* it across town. This is somewhat miraculous to me because up
until I purchased the thing five months ago, I knew nothing whatsoever about
automechanics. I had bought it with the intention of "learning by
necessity" as problems come up, and so far necessity has taught me how to
rebuild a clutch, replace a rotor and rebuild a caliper, replace a
steering rack, replace shocks, and rebuild a carburator. It is a
wonderful feeling to see such strange and mysterious tasks become clear,
but it doesn't even compare to what I felt when the it began moving
and I saw the fruits of my labor. Somehow this makes all the money and
time that I have put into it over the past several weeks seem worthwhile.
It is a wonderful skill to learn, and I really think this is the best way
to learn it, in spite of--or perhaps because of--the mistakes I make
along the way.
At any rate, there is still much to do--particularly a front end
rebuild and tuneup--that will prevent me at this point from going crazy
with it and driving it everywhere :^(, but in the near future I should
have an automobile unlike any I am accustomed to. Thanks for the
tips and discussions I have heard here and benefitted from.
*** Eric Christensen ***
echrist1@firefly.prairienet.org
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echrist@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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