RE: crank dampener install

[SB <polecat2@xxxxxxxx>]

Good advice, Don.  I, too, sometimes lose my cool with these guys.  
Mainly when they tell me I am wrong in picking a certain car color, set 
of wheels, etc., where it's only a matter or preference.  The problem 
with my know-it-all friend is sometimes he gets it right.  When he does 
I tell him "Even a broken clock is right twice a day", and that usually 
ends that!

One of my friends is a body and paint man, and he absolutely has it the 
worst.  EVERYBODY loves to tell him how to do his job, when they don't 
know the first thing about it.  It's going to make him crack up someday.



Don Dulmage wrote:
> 
> In every automotive deal there is the guy doing the work and then "the 
> friend". I am working Saturdays on my Hemi Jeep project and the goons 
> drop by and walk around my project commenting negatively on the 1/4 
> eliphtic suspension which I know they have never ever seen nor do they 
> understand it. (My rail has it too) Asking about the 5.7 hemi and 
> offering advice on how to do that and this. It seems strange because I 
> do all their motors and tuning. Why am I doing that if they know so 
> much? Occasionally they put their finger thru the paper so to speak and 
> get to meet what my old racer friends call THE OTHER DON DULMAGE. Then 
> it gets real quiet and they go away. However my late friend Frank Post , 
> a great Mopar guy who loved our early 60s mopars once told me. "dont get 
> made at that guy Don. You're the only friend he's got." It made stop and 
> think and perhaps a bit more tolerant. Some folks just want to talk and 
> be noticed. They dont really expect you to do what they say.  They just 
> want to be there and be notced. i guess that is no crime so be his 
> friend but occasionally set him straight when he gets overboard. "How 
> did you build yours ?' usually shuts them up since most have build 
> diddly squat but somehow became experts anyway.
> Don


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