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David, the best "job" was the one that I did while a freshman at University of Florida. We had a high curb in front of our dormitory, so we used wood blocks as ramps and I nursed the car w/slipping clutch up the blocks until the front wheels were on the curb. That gave us about 12" of crawling space, which was enough to drop the tranny and clutch. Then I strapped the iron flywheel to the book rack of my trusty Raleigh Record 10-Speed and rode the 3 miles to the local machine shop that charged me $30 (a lot of money in 1981) to resurface it. Wheelies were really easy on that bike that afternoon! Hey, the car survived the trek to So Cal about 2 months later, so we must have done good.
-Dean
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Ahh, the things we did in our youth, had only the basic hand tools and 3 big pecan trees in the back yard, then I bought a set of ramps and thought I was really a top notch mechanic then!!!!!!! Used the PTO winch on my dad's early 70"s Bronco (dead manned against one of the other trees) with the cable thrown over the biggest limb I could reach to pull engines, worked pretty good, but needed a helper to operate the winch while I coaxed the engine out of my old junkers........
Now, I've got a 40x50 heated metal building shop and engine stands, chain hoist, big a$$ed air compressor/plenty air tools and all kinds of stuff and it seems it's not any easier working on my stuff, just a little more comfortable.............
David