Vacation details with parts store review

[Brett]

Just got back from a week long vacation to Cape San Blas, Florida. Lots of fun at the beach and fishing. By far the best vacation I've had. It got off to a challenging start though. A few hours into my journey last saturday morning, I heard a couple seconds of squealing followed by my fan belt getting wraped up in the fan. The bearings of the belt tensioner had seized up and thrown the belt off. I got my suburban to the side of the road, and grabbed my tool bag( I never leave home without tools). It only took a couple of minutes to asess the problem. I was about 20 miles south of Cullman,AL. I called up a buddy in Athens,AL to ask for a favor, but he was not home but a couple of hours away. He recomended the NAPA in Cullman. I called information to get their number. They had the tensioner in stock, and I had the part number for the belt on the spare I keep in the truck which was important since 4 different belts are listed for that truck. The total for the parts was about $75. I told them I had a $100 bill and I wouldn't be needing change if they could help me out. 40 minutes later the napa driver showed up with my parts and change. I had to talk the driver into keeping the change, but he finally did. Ten minutes later I was on the road. Total time on the side of the road 1 hour 5 minutes. All in all a bad situation that wasn't too bad. So remember bring some tools, keep some spares, and travel with cash. Thanks NAPA

Brett

[DJ]

Not all parts house people are bad, too many times only the bad expeirences are talked about.

Thanks for sharing

[Av8r]

Hey I just got back from a week as Cape San Blas the week before. Lots of fun for me too but the fishing sucked compared to last year. Annoying little catfish stealing my bait. Stayed about a quarter mile pat scollop cove gas station on the left. Actually took our dogs with us and they even behaved themselves. Had a lot of fun after getting back, too, as I spent the last few days increasing my M-37 seating capacity by about 8. (Thanks to Snake River)


Oh well, back to work tomorrow. But I promise I'll be back at Cape San Blas again next year to terrorize all those 6 inch catfish and pinfish bait stealers.