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>Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 09:44:51 -0600 (CST)
>From: Arlie Hart <ARHART@WSUHUB.UC.TWSU.EDU>
>Subject: Best Bodge Stories
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>Bodge #2 - Same friend, Mike, had an old Dodge Dart with a 225 Slant 6 in it.
> The
>starter went out and he didn't have the money for another so we ground a notch
> in
>an extra pulley on the crank and used a boat motor starter cord to pull start
> it.
>That engine had in excess of 300,000 miles and so little compression that you
>could roll it over by hand pretty easily. Mike used the rope starter for almo
> 2
>months before he finally fixed it. Wonderful conversation piece at the gas
>station. :^)
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>Happy Bodging!!!
>
Reminds me of the time, many years ago, when my TR-3 battery gave up the
ghost in front of a lunch counter. I got the crank out of the boot and
was sticking it in the front of the car when an old man stopped me and
asked me to please wait a minute while he went in and got his friends.
They were all amused to see someone crank starting a car again.
"We ain't seen nobody do that in a long time!"
Also, at one point in time I used to drive my TR-3 to high school with
no battery at all. My freind and I would just push it to get it started
every day after school.
Louis Poche' - POCHE@music.loyno.edu
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