What did you do to your non-G Body project today [2024 edition]

[Ugly1]

that's what I figured, just never heard it referred to as such.

had a customer in the store the other night...1972 Mustang. needed a transmission filter kit and our computer didn't have such a beast. the young kid I work with ordered something in but had not checked it. I told him to look up the Application tab which listed F500, LN800, etc. I ten asked "do you see Mustang listed anywhere?"

I then told him (customer and kid) we would need to know engine and transmission model to order the proper one, and then proceeded to school them on how to do so. customer says "I have VIN". computer couldn't use that either.
I pulled up RockAuto, and proceeded to lookup...car has either a inline, 302, or 351. asked customer if it was an automatic ("Yes"), said it was probably a C4/C6 but not positive because FMX was also an option even if unlikely (they were not commonly used). we didn't even know WHICH 351 it was. I then found a HotRod article which informed it was a 351 Cleveland, but the C4/C6 were identical otherwise.
told the customer to go home, crawl under and take a pic of the transmission pan. that would i.d. the transmission

wth are they teaching autoshop kids in school these days?

It’s to old and no computer so the school doesn’t deal with it. Most schools dropped auto classes. My brother has/had ( think it’s still there) a poster with all the transmission pan shapes to ID them. The customer should know his car better!

 

[pagrunt]

wth are they teaching autoshop kids in school these days?

The bad thing is when a 12 year old knows more than a 40 something bragging about his ride.

 

[CopperNick]

And that's what you get when the school board is composed of new age environmentalists, helicopter mommies and nimby-ists, fear of law suits from angry parents who had a child actually get dirty, or even worse, learn something practical and useful!! coupled with abject and absolute compliance with the "every child must pass the curriculum/no child left behind edict from on high so the curriculum is dumbed down to a watery form of educatonal drivel that teaches nothing and delivers graduates with pablum for brains--good for the french fry line at the local choke and puke but not for much else. (And all in one sentence, go me!)

Seriously though, I don't think you will see much change until the beaver lovers finally get the message that EV's might be environmently chic but the toxic consequences of all those batteries requiring storage and disposal has yet to be calculated, or is known but being kept absolutely secret due to the outrage among the environmentalists that it would cause. Even though we might sacrifice gallon upon gallon of processed primordial fecal matter on the altar of combustion, at least we understand the concepts of reduce, re-use, and recycle, since we employ them every day as a defacto necessity due to our love/hate affair with the G-bodies we own.



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