[speaker001:] the last auto repair I had was I have a nineteen eighty four Nissan truck I had a a tune up done and I had the I had the brakes done on it and the the reason I did that was because I don't have a scope and it has eight spark plugs and it's hard to to get get at them and plus the time I just don't have time anymore um as far as maintenance tasks that I do myself I I usually change the oil and wash the air filter and I I had an occasion to change the had to change the the battery once but the brakes I was really surprised with the brakes I wanted I do have the background I know what needs to be done and I know the the oil needs to should be changed regularly very regularly and all of the bearings and and and the lubrication lubrication system needs to keep be lubricated and so I I stay on top of that but I I wanted my front wheels I wanted the bearings packed and they wanted something like fifteen dollars uh up front or something like that or maybe it was thirty dollars to do it
[speaker002:] just to pack the bearings
[speaker001:] just to pack the bearings but what I found is that they had a brake job and they changed I had them another thing I I let them do sometimes is that I let them go through and let them tell me what let them do the diagnostics that's free okay and then I can decide whether I want them to do it or whether I can do it see
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and they told me that my my brake pads were gosh you know seventy percent still good you know but still it was cheaper in the long run and uh so I just got the the the brakes done and I thought that was a good deal and and plus
[speaker002:] right and they repacked the wheel bearings
[speaker001:] and they we repacked the the wheel bearings yeah but I've I've had considerable experience I you might say I'm a mechanic a good back yard mechanic and I you know I took auto shop in high school it's been a while back but I I still have a pretty good feel for it but one thing I didn't know is that when I was messing around with cars and stuff and most of the cars I had I had bigger cars and the brakes go out fairly rapidly on those but what I was surprised at is that on my little Nissan I bought the truck with about sixty thousand I have almost a hundred and ten so I drove on those brake pads for uh you know forty five thousand miles and there was hardly any wear to them so those small little trucks and cars like that they they just the longevity of the brake pads is really good
[speaker002:] you know they've gotten to the point that where they don't weigh very much and the the surface material on the pads is so good
[speaker001:] exactly exactly so I you know but I I just did it anyway I like to stay I like to stay up on it you know like to stay kind of stay up on it then if you go in like just about any point any you know point in time and pull my dip stick and pull it out and look at the oil the oil is you might say a a light golden brown you know it's not dirty I I I keep it that way because that's that is the key to the longevity so
[speaker002:] right well
[speaker001:] so so how
[speaker002:] it it sounds like you've had um some good experiences with that uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and my experiences have been kind of contrary to that
[speaker001:] uh oh
[speaker002:] um I I get a little more involved in the maintenance of my car and uh
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and in fact I have an eighty seven mustang with a 302 in it that I've uh beefed up a little bit
[speaker001:] um-hum okay
[speaker002:] and one of the things that I did was to change the pulley system on it to use under drive pulleys so that the engine doesn't have to turn the accessories and can use more of the power to the rear wheels um the only catch was the first set of under drive pulleys that I put on it were
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] um not even cast aluminum they were just pressed aluminum
[speaker001:] you're talking about the vibration dampener
[speaker002:] well there's three there's three pulleys that you change you change the crank pulley and the alternator pulley
[speaker001:] that's the vibration dampener yeah
[speaker002:] and uh the water pump pulley
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] so when I changed those over I put on these these pressed aluminum things
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] and uh probably about four months ago the water pump decided to go out
[speaker001:] uh oh
[speaker002:] so in the process of seizing the belt spun on the pulley and wore through the water pump pulley almost all the way
[speaker001:] hm uh oh
[speaker002:] but not far enough to notice
[speaker001:] hm
[speaker002:] so I was on my way to work one day and uh the water pump pulley split laterally in half so there was a half a water pump pulley still attached to the water pump and the other half was kind of dangling off the end of the crank and uh so I
[speaker001:] um-hum