The starter on my Mustang had died.\u00c2\u00a0 So I went down to Shucks and got a replacment starter, took it home and installed the new starter.\u00c2\u00a0 When I tried to turn the car over the starter would just smoke (literally).\u00c2\u00a0 After messing around with it for about an hour trying to get it to work and checking to make sure I didn’t do something wrong, I figured that the starter must be bad and took it back to Shucks.\u00c2\u00a0 They put it on their tester and sure enough, the thing was DOA (Dead On Arrival), so they gave me a new one.\u00c2\u00a0 I went back home and installed the “New new starter”. \u00c2\u00a0 I Tried to start the car, nothing, nada, zip.\u00c2\u00a0 So I take it back to Shucks and they put it on their tester and they tell me that the starter is good.\u00c2\u00a0 So I take it back home and put it in again.\u00c2\u00a0 Still nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 The little 30 minute project was turning into an all day event.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I think Dad was getting a little tired of my constant trips to Shucks in the Ford F-150 to get a “New New New starter” for the Mustang and decided to go along.\u00c2\u00a0 We get to Shucks and the “attendant” puts the starter on the “tester”, and turns around and says, “Yep, the starter is good, here you go!” Dad looks at the kid and asks him, “Can you test the starter under load”.\u00c2\u00a0 The kid says, “No, but the tester says it is good.”\u00c2\u00a0 Dad is getting a bit upset by now and says, “CAN YOU TEST THE STARTER UNDER LOAD?”\u00c2\u00a0 The kid gets a frightened deer in the headlights look and says, “No….”\u00c2\u00a0 Dad looks at the kid and says, “THEN GIVE US A NEW STARTER!”\u00c2\u00a0 Needless to say we walked out with a new starter and this one actually worked!\u00c2\u00a0 Still, that starter only lasted about a year before it burned out and I vowed that I would never buy parts from Shucks again. \u00c2\u00a0 It also taught me a couple of lessons.\u00c2\u00a0 #1, Dad did love me and was watching out for me.\u00c2\u00a0 #2 Don’t try to rip off one of Dad’s sons!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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