[AT] whoops//cub cadet

[charlie hill]

Len, in the place and time I grew up no one had any money until the fall. 
There were no NAPA stores, just little mom and pop places. If they didn't 
sell on credit they didn't sell at all!  Of course back then the kids drove 
the school buses.  From what I've seen of the adult bus drivers we have 
around here these days, we kids did a better job too.  I still remember the 
bus driving rules I was taught and I see these "adult" drivers break them 
all the time.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len Rugen" <rugenl at yahoo.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] whoops//cub cadet


>I remember setting points to either a matchbook cover or a paper match
> thickness, I don't remember which.
>
> When I was in 12th grade, our school bus quit while running down the
> highway.  Of course, we didn't have all those safety rules then, so the
> driver let me pop the hood.  The first thing I did was take off the dist.
> cap, my guess was that it had broken a timing chain and I expected the 
> rotor
> wouldn't turn, but I found the points spring had broken and the points 
> were
> standing wide open.
>
> I stopped the next farmer that drove by and convinced him to take me to
> NAPA, brought back a new set of points and set them by eyeball.  The bus
> fired right up,  but I told the driver to HAVE IT CHECKED.  He told me the
> next day that the mechanic put a dwell meter on it and said it was close
> enough, so he didn't do anything else.
>
> The biggest problem was getting NAPA to "charge" the points, I didn't have
> any money....
>
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