[speaker001:] say you did uh starters and Bendix springs such as that on an old one
[speaker002:] yeah and uh helped my wife replace some carburetors
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] some that she had to uh um label everything
[speaker001:] she had to label everything what was she driving
[speaker002:] yeah because it was a Cadillac
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and they uh well they quit making those the Quadrajet carburetor and they quit making it
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] they rebuilt it and it never did never did run right again
[speaker001:] yeah Quadrajet not real easy to get rebuilt just right
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] um what were you replacing the starters and Bendix drives on
[speaker002:] um a Maverick and also um a Chrysler station wagon before that
[speaker001:] yeah did you replace just the uh the Bendix on the Chrysler station wagon or the whole starter
[speaker002:] uh the I'm replacing the two or three starters on the Chrysler
[speaker001:] yeah the starters are kind of fragile
[speaker002:] they yeah and the
[speaker001:] especially if you need a tune up
[speaker002:] um-hum they kept saying that the Chrysler that's what Chryslers did is they wore out starters you know
[speaker001:] yeah well if if if they start real easy you know you just hit the key and it starts up and when it's properly tuned up that starter will last for a long time
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] see they built that starter so it'd fit every V-8 and all the slant sixes that they built in like thirty five years
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] they all take the exact same starter they'll interchange completely I mean completely one starter will fit all of them so they've got a whole lot of torque but to do that they did uh they use an underdrive system where they geared it down so its motor spins really fast
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so it's got to spin for very long it's kind of tough on the bushings usually what goes is the bushings you take a little time replace the bushings you still got a perfectly good starter
[speaker002:] yeah right
[speaker001:] but uh most places don't put don't rebuild them with with good with good enough bushings so it's you know
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] after you get rebuilt one you have a tendency to go through them pretty quickly especially if you need a tune-up
[speaker002:] no
[speaker001:] anyway what are you driving now
[speaker002:] um my Chrysler van and it's it's pretty maintenance free you know and uh and beginning the year last year and drove a Chevrolet Cavalier station wagon and it didn't give me any trouble at all
[speaker001:] that's good
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] what is it a late model set Chrysler van
[speaker002:] it's a eighty seven
[speaker001:] yeah one of the little minivans
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah is it
[speaker001:] do you like the way it rides and such
[speaker002:] uh rides or runs
[speaker001:] rides rough
[speaker002:] it yeah well yeah it rides rides rough it runs good you know I kind of it took me a while to get used to a four cylinder engine
[speaker001:] yeah yeah
[speaker002:] you have to kind of wait for it especially when you get on the highway
[speaker001:] yeah right now without getting some of the sportier models uh the four cylinders aren't real peppy
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but uh they're starting to change that out in the last couple of years too
[speaker002:] you driven American cars all
[speaker001:] uh see I've driven one import uh I drove a Volkswagen Beetle for a while about a month um in that month I think I put uh three oil coolers on it um every time I turned around I was having trouble with it everything else I ever owned was American built uh mostly older cars um I've been a mechanic well I worked starting working my father's service station when I was about uh twelve
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] so I've been around cars a lot but uh driven a lot of old Pontiacs my first three cars were uh seventy model Pontiacs a GTO and a Bonneville and a station wagon and I had a couple of Chryslers had a Super B for a while with a four forty in it it a lot of fun
[speaker002:] but uh not not much gas mileage though
[speaker001:] I don't know gas mileage wasn't too bad I got about seventeen
[speaker002:] oh wow
[speaker001:] well till you got crazy with it you know you get the four barrel all worked up and suddenly it it it drops off fast but
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] long as you didn't spin the tires too much or or spend too much time with the secondaries kicked in it it didn't do too bad on gas didn't have to work very hard to move the car around
[speaker002:] now do you think since they started with electronic ignition that it improves the way the car runs
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah definitely
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know the my last GM car was a seventy Chevy station wagon uh it still had the points and condenser in it when I rebuilt the engine on that about a hundred and thirty thousand on the car
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I uh pulled that old points distributor out and got a an HEI distributor electronic distributor and put into it