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Mar. 16th, 2013 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI love the way Super-mechanic Juan fixes cars. I really do.
My exhaust had broken at the point where the pipe connects to the resonator. At work today, he fabricated a connector that went over the broken pipe end one one side, and over the entire end of the resonator, broken pipe and all, on the other side. After using his awesome hand-held band saw to cut the heat shield off the top of the resonator, he just connected it to the pipe with his custom-built coupler and torqued in on good and tight with a couple of u-brackets.
Percy the Swift may also stop revving his engine up and down after Juan replaced the PCV valve, which he thinks failed open, causing a big vacuum leak. He plugged off my idle control motor, which was also misbehaving. And he recrimped the connectors on my cheap-ass spark plug wires, which was possibly causing a misfire. He's going to replace the distributor cap and rotor tomorrow and bring my car back over to me all fixed up for my trip to St. Louis.
I'm hugely lucky to have a friend who is willing to do these things for me. I bought he and his wife dinner, which is really the least I could do even beyond paying him for his work. He's fantastic.
My exhaust had broken at the point where the pipe connects to the resonator. At work today, he fabricated a connector that went over the broken pipe end one one side, and over the entire end of the resonator, broken pipe and all, on the other side. After using his awesome hand-held band saw to cut the heat shield off the top of the resonator, he just connected it to the pipe with his custom-built coupler and torqued in on good and tight with a couple of u-brackets.
Percy the Swift may also stop revving his engine up and down after Juan replaced the PCV valve, which he thinks failed open, causing a big vacuum leak. He plugged off my idle control motor, which was also misbehaving. And he recrimped the connectors on my cheap-ass spark plug wires, which was possibly causing a misfire. He's going to replace the distributor cap and rotor tomorrow and bring my car back over to me all fixed up for my trip to St. Louis.
I'm hugely lucky to have a friend who is willing to do these things for me. I bought he and his wife dinner, which is really the least I could do even beyond paying him for his work. He's fantastic.
