You got that right. A lot of shops won't even deal with the old cars. A line I hear again and again is: "I don't have the time to fool with 'em." Or: "They're too much trouble." It's much easier to just replace a part. The idea of breaking it down and fixing it or "rehabing" a part is a foreign concept to many. "D. Dardalis" wrote: > I think what is happening here is that fewer and fewer mechanics understand > the old hardware, even though the hardware itself is simple. May be they > don't care learning about them. They only understand replacing parts > because this is where the industry is going. Nobody cares about the > old. If its old, its bad news. New is what they want.