[Cliff R]

I'm NOT reading any of it. I tried to help out many pages ago but sadly was unable to make a dent in the OP's armor.

I've been at this deal over 45 years, over 20 of it running a FULL TIME business dealing thousands of customers. When I closed the books on the working side of the shop almost three years ago I had completed just shy of 13,000 work orders. Most of that was carb work, but I also did quit a few engines, transmissions, distributors, set up some diff's, custom tuning, and did a few engine installs and swaps.

Over the years I had quite a few folks come in here asking me to help out with their "project" car. I learned very quickly to avoid any customer who wanted a "quick fix", "cheap fix", or ever uttered the words "just get it going for now (cheap) and I'll fix it right later". They NEVER do it right later. I don't care about that, however IF you take on their half-ars repair and charge them for it, the very first time they have any issues at all you will get a call telling you how it all worked fine BEFORE you touched it. Bottom line and getting to the point, NEVER, EVER short cut a job, bandaid fix it, or just patch it up so the car can keep going till you can do it better. ALWAYS bite the bullet, even if it's not in the budget to do it right the first time and while it's right in front of you.......FWIW.......