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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Ilaine who wrote (50901)5/21/2000 10:33:00 PM
From: Crocodile  Read Replies (1) of 71178
 
There are two things I know how to do really well that almost no one else knows how to do. That's leaving out the things I know how to do that a lot of people know how to do, like chop onions, or make a roux. That's the way that I am about automotive parts (and repairing car radiators too for that matter)... Can't seem to empty the numbers out of my head...hundreds and hundreds of the "basic" Ford part numbers... Each part on a car has a basic number... let's say a front fender... a 16005 or 16006 depending on which side... Then the "prefix" which precedes that tells you what year and model of car the fender will fit, and the suffix might differentiate between particular lines of a model.... Memory is filled with hundreds of basic numbers like 2B120 front calipers, or 2261 rear brake cylinders, or 3A674 power steering pumps, or 4236 differential gear sets, or 6584 valve cover gaskets, or 6051 head gaskets, or 7C054 transmission governors... arrrrgggghhhh... No matter how many years go by, the numbers are all just "there"... But the best partspeople just "know" those numbers... they are like a whole language of their own... You don't ever say "rear emergency brake cable" when you have the right "word" for it in your "language"... a 2A635... I was very good at it. But I hated it. How well I know...
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