Warning - warning - Monkey Lad alert!!!!!

[WAUFX at aol.com]

> Don't EVER take your car to Sears (or similar places) for brake pads or for
>  ANYTHING else - the people who work there are known as "monkey lads" - do
>  an archive search on that term - and their technical abilities are sorely
>  taxed by the average wheelbarrow.
    
erm...

i went to look at my 87 4kq because it was eating tires in the left rear 
after being winched out of a snowbank after some foolishness on my part over 
at the fairgrounds last winter. heh. i got a bit too enthusiastic and drove 
the damn thing into a ditch, the whole time proclaiming how great the car was 
and how they couldn't be stuck. fool!

guess what i found?

2 tie rod nuts that were *not* even close to the locking collars. the collars 
themselves were just swinging around on the tie rod, oblivious to the fact 
that they were supposed to be jammed between the proverbial nut and 
adjuster...i somewhat re-aligned it and tightened things up, in total 
disbelief the whole time.

guess who aligned it last? 

"The Good Life at a Great Price-Guaranteed!'"  Sears.  >: (

Megan