![]() ![]() I look underneath the intake manifold and there’s a valley down there. When I raised the hood I saw the air conditioner case didn’t have a foil wrapper on it they generally put on for insulation. I said to bring it out and I’d take a look at it. You probably got a pack rat under the hood.’ He got real defensive on the phone and said, ‘That truck is parked up at the house, and we don’t have pack rats at the house.’ If it didn’t have oil pressure it wouldn’t run. The gauge isn’t reading.’ I said, ‘Does the engine start and run?’ He says, yeah, and I said, ‘It’s got two oil pumps. my Ford diesel doesn’t have any oil pressure. I have figured out it was a pack rat over the phone. I’ve just fixed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of cars in 45 years. All this doesn’t work if you don’t have great customers that pay their bills.Īre you one of those guys that can tell what’s wrong with a car by the way it sounds? Success doesn’t happen between 8 and 5, but I have a lot of fun out here. #PACKRAT SALINA KANSAS MANUALS#The manuals - parts labor guides - cost $250 each. You’ll be so stupid you can’t change oil anymore. If you don’t do that stuff, you’ll get behind. #PACKRAT SALINA KANSAS UPDATE#It costs me $2,500 every year just to update my diagnostic computer. #PACKRAT SALINA KANSAS PLUS#I’ve got a half a million worth of tooling plus the building. For $2,500 you could have everything you need. You could be a plumber with a simple tool set. I subscribe to a couple of magazines and newsletters, and there are schools in Kansas City every spring that keep you fresh. How do you stay current with cars changing all the time? I can scatter the parts on the bench, and I’ll put it all back together. You meet somebody different and work on different vehicles. You get to do something different every day - a different challenge. It’s like guns or fishing or any other hobby. If you’re born into it like I am it’s addicting. I remember scraping gaskets on a Minneapolis-Moline tractor when I was 5. My uncle and grandfathers were great mechanics. I went to trade school back in the early ‘70s up at Beloit, but I was basically born into it because being on the farm you do your own mechanical. How did you get into this line of work? What kind of education do you have to have to become a mechanic? King does custom work on collectors’ cars, and he has a few cars collected himself. “This is the king of man caves right here,” he said. The shop has an in-floor lift, an above-ground lift, a heated floor and a jib crane he constructed. Three years ago he had the expanded shop he works in today constructed. He tried working for a couple of auto dealers in Denver, but didn’t like living in the larger city and returned to rural Salina to build his own shop. He ran a shop at Green Ford Sales in Abilene for two years. He worked for 17 years at Bill’s Truck and Auto of Salina, but even then he was repairing cars on his own time after his 10-hour shifts were over. Joe King has his own fully equipped, three-bay car repair shop that he usually works in seven days a week. YEARS ON THE JOB: 18 years as business owner 45 years as mechanic National Archives or DVIDS.TITLE: Owner, Joe King Automotive, 636G E. This website is developed as a part of the world's largest public domain archive,, and not developed or endorsed by the U.S. law and are therefore in the public domain. National Archives and DVIDS is "a work prepared by an officer or employee" of the federal government "as part of that person's official duties." In general, under section 105 of the Copyright Act, such works are not entitled to domestic copyright protection under U.S. All of these materials are preserved because they are important to the workings of Government, have long-term research worth, or provide information of value to citizens.ĭisclaimer: A work of the U.S. The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service provides a connection between world media and the American military personnel serving at home and abroad. There are approximately 10 billion pages of textual records 12 million maps, charts, and architectural and engineering drawings 25 million still photographs and graphics 24 million aerial photographs 300,000 reels of motion picture film 400,000 video and sound recordings and 133 terabytes of electronic data. ![]() NARA keeps those Federal records that are judged to have continuing value-about 2 to 5 percent of those generated in any given year. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) was established in 1934 by President Franklin Roosevelt. National Archives and Defense Visual Information Distribution Service. The objects in this collection are from The U.S. ![]()
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