As if there weren't enough horror stories about mechanics working on your car. . .I was sitting around last night talking to a friend who used to work in a transmission shop when he was in high-school. He said that the owner told him to tighten everything within a half turn of breaking the bolt. I asked if they didn't use or own torque wrenches. He just laughed kinda sick like. -- James A. Brill Jr. \\ // The night I was born I swear the jbrill@unlinfo.unl.edu \\ \\// // moon turned to fire red . . . my University of Nebraska \\//\\// poor mother cried out lord the free-lance homo sapien \/ \/ gypsy was right. -- Jimi Hendrix
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