Friend had a small motor home on a Ford chassis.He had a fuse blown but couldnt find it.Ford dealer charged 70.00 labor and 3 bucks for the fuse.Another time he got charged 50 bucks for an ignition coil plus 40 bucks labor.My Dad lost a head gasket on a 37 OldsWhen I was a kid.Miles from home on a Sunday.Dad pulled in to a small garage that was closed.He went to the house,mechanic came out opened the garage.Mechanics wife invited mother in for a cup of tea while the Olds was fixed.I watched the repair, had never seen an air wrench.The bill was 8.00.I did valve jobs on Chevy 6s in the 50s for 30.00 plus 9.00 if the head needed machine shop work.There was no rip off in the shop I worked in.I remember putting a rebuilt carberator on a Ford v8.Price on the carb was 6.00.Wages were low but we got by fine.Later on I worked for a Ford dealer, shop rate was 9.00 per hour.
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Today's Featured Article - More Memories of a Field Service Engineer - by Brian Dye. Introduction: The author worked for one of the largest Ford tractor dealerships in England as a trouble-shooter on tractor engines, hydraulics and combine harvesters from 1963 to 1972. In 1972 he became a dealer manager and finally left the dealer net in 1975 to run his own electronic design and manufacturing company. [Editor] We live right in the middle of Norfolk. The dealership that I worked for sold Fordson Tractors from the 1920's and some of t
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