[speaker001:] okay um I'm very unhandy in these things and uh I don't like to do anything myself
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I like to have a service station I can feel confident about
[speaker002:] yeah I uh
[speaker001:] which is problematical
[speaker002:] I've been working on my car since or actually on on cars since I was probably about fourteen
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh I've I've got a sixty six Mustang out in the back that I've been trying to get running here lately that's given me a lot of problems and the the clutch and stuff isn't working out right and every time I try to put the battery in it doesn't have enough charge on it so I have to take it over to a friend's house and get it charged up again try try it again it rained here all last week so I didn't get a chance to do it
[speaker001:] oh is it is the problem that it's hard to get the appropriate battery and other types of things for a a sixty six car
[speaker002:] uh no it's not I don't know exactly what it is with the battery I think it's just that every time I charge it up it it has to sit I I I went and got a new battery and brought it home and then it sat there for two weeks so I went over to a friend's house and charged it up and then it started raining so I haven't been able to do it for another week so I'll have to take it over there and get it charged again and maybe I'll be able to see if that won't get it going tomorrow but uh but my main problem's been my clutch I
[speaker001:] is do you rely on this car for for primary transportation or just excuse me
[speaker002:] I'm supposed to
[speaker001:] I'm sorry
[speaker002:] I said I said I'm supposed to it uh it's been down for quite some time now and I been having a lot of trouble with it
[speaker001:] so are you struggling to get around as a result
[speaker002:] yeah I have to rely on friends and parents and stuff like that so you you don't do any kind of car work or
[speaker001:] I try not to um
[speaker002:] try not to anyway yeah I can understand that
[speaker001:] I suppose I ought to learn to change the oil and things I can save a lot of money doing that
[speaker002:] yeah I think I can understand that I it's not the most fun in the world but it it like you said it is it is cheaper on yourself to to go ahead and do it yourself than go spend fifty sixty dollars to have somebody else you know just change your oil or something like that
[speaker001:] I mean it must be great to to to really understand what's what's going on and you can both do things yourself and talk confidently with people when you have to take it somewhere to get parts or whatever
[speaker002:] yeah yeah that's that I think that's what my next option is if the if the clutch doesn't work right to take it to somebody and see if they can't decipher what the problem is I I have a feeling maybe it's just that I've I've put too strong of a clutch in it because I've got it's a it's a straight six two hundred with a three speed transmission in it and I've tried to put a racing clutch in it which I think is gonna you know I think that may be what my problem is it's it's too much clutch for the amount of engine I've got but uh we'll see
[speaker001:] was it easy to get a more appropriate clutch
[speaker002:] pardon yeah it's it I just go to my neighborhood parts store and get another one it's that when I when I had to rebuilt engine engine rebuilt I decided to try a um a better clutch so that I'd quit changing them out every six months I I have a slight lead foot
[speaker001:] you have a slight
[speaker002:] a slight lead foot yes it means it means I've always got my foot in the gas and and and the other one in the in the clutch so I I burn up the clutch a lot
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] it's not good for it but uh
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] any any questions you have about uh anything anything easy to to work on or whatever or are you trying to get yourself into working on cars or what
[speaker001:] well the car I drove is an eighty four and it's reached the point
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] where various things are are going wrong with it and it's had to be in recently
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] it needed a new battery it wouldn't start um
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] my wife and I did manage to to uh recharge the battery from the other car um and the exhaust system has needed work and um
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh so the latest work done it just yesterday was to have the front wheels aligned
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] uh so we've been spending
[speaker002:] don't don't don't tell me let me guess your warranty just ran out and now everything goes wrong right
[speaker001:] yes in fact in fact on the battery uh uh it's the old one it had a four year warranty and the day it gave up was four years and six days
[speaker002:] typical I I don't I don't know what it is somehow another car manufacturers and the manufacturers of new parts for them
[speaker001:] uh
[speaker002:] they put their warranties on there and they know exactly when they're gonna run out when the when the part is gonna is gonna break down