Thread: how much do you charge your friends?

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Maybe it's just tired and wants some rest.....

Originally Posted by HOSS429

i have a ford truck

Good, you've isolated the problem......



J/K Couldn't resist. Hope you get it up and running again soon.

Cheers,
Dutch

he actually should not charge me for a diagnosis.. if he makes a repair then that is ok .. but simply to tell me to go to "parts are-us" and get such and such sensor ...

Ah yes, I remember it well. The summer of '83. That's when I stopped doing anything for anyone else at all.

A "friend" had a Silverado truck with a 350 and wanted a 454 in it. He had no room at his place and no tools, so asked if I would help him. Sharon pitched in and found an ad in one of the local papers where a guy had a 454 in his truck and wanted a 350. We parked my friend's truck in front of my garage where it stayed for the next 6 months while my friend took a little out of his paycheck each payday to buy parts. We stripped the 454 and went back together with all nice pieces.

Long story short. By the time it backed out of my property on its own power, I had about 600 hours in it. That included running for parts myself in my vehicle.

He called about 2 weeks later and said he and his wife wanted to take Sharon and I out for a steak dinner. I said great!! We ate, talked and laughed. When the waitress brought the bill, he started figuring his half and my half for the dinner. Words cannot describe the feeling that came over me. Suffice to say it all ended badly and we haven't spoken since.

One good thing came out of it though. I've saved a lot of time and grief by refusing to help anyone else do anything at all. And I ask no help from anyone. When I need work done on electrical or whatever, I get in the Yellow Pages and find someone.

progress report on my dead truck .. i checked and found it to be fireing but seemed to be not getting fuel .. my "buddy " checked and found it to be getting too much fuel .. he thinks the injectors are not closing and filling the cylinders with gas when it sits .. so he disconnects the fuel pump and does some other stuff and burns up my starter in the process ( cha -ching ) new starter .. now he has it where it wont fire and he is systematically replacing every part of the electrical system one by one in a process of elemination .. ( cha -ching cha ching ) goes the cash register .. i`m affraid its gunna cost me 500 bucks to get a 300 buck truck back on the road