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Worst hack job(s) I've ever done

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Subject: Worst hack job(s) I've ever done
From: "DSTONE, 5-9521, BPR: 237-2322" <DSTONE@sc9.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1991 09:19 PST
     -Replacing floorboards in a Nash Metropolitan with
     galvanized sheetmetal, sheetmetal screws, & roofing
     tar.

     -On a Renault R10 sedan, the one with 3-lug wheels, I
     put GM 6-lug wheels on the back by filing out the holes
     on the wheels & jacking up the rear suspension with
     those twisty coil spring expanders. Go anywhere Florida
     Hunting buggy-

     -Once outside of Farmington (middle of nowhere Calif.),
     the Bugeye came to an abrupt halt with a ugly sound.
     Flipping up the bonnet I astutely noted that one of the
     blades of the fan had decided to venture forth on it's
     own, exiting mostly thru the top tank of the radiator.
     With darkness falling quickly, I began removing the fan
     by working a 7/16" wrench in the *very small* space
     between the fan & (hot) radiator. I removed the broken
     portion of the fan, beat the remaining two blades
     relatively straight with a handy roadside rock, &
     replaced the two bladed part. The trip to San Jose then
     consisted of; drive, top up radiator, drive, top up
     radiator, etc. All with the heater on, but I made it
     some 3 hrs. later. 
          Oh yes, redcar now runs an electric fan .....

               cheers- 



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