Category: The Car

Rich Palasik, John Turner, Noah Turner and Ino Briones.

John and Noah came to our rescue this evening and welded on upper front suspension bump stops and a right steering bump stop.

Or, as Skid said, “If we had to wave our hands in the air and ask for a miracle and hope for a specific vehicle to show up, theirs would have been it.”

Photos of the work here.

Manager Adolfo Barragon, Juan Martinez, Richard Molina and Ino Briones of Econo Lube ‘N Tune and Brakes are truly miracle workers.

If it weren’t for the four men listed above, there’s a real chance we wouldn’t be running Baja on Tuesday. They replaced a bad master brake cylinder, did a front end alignment and bled the brakes.

The bad news was that we needed to some welding to fix a problem with front end where the steering was hitting a shock tower when we turned the steering wheel. Guaranteed failure on the course if unfixed.

Since we had time to kill, Rich called a buddy of his, John Turner, who he hasn’t seen in 30 years. John and his son Noah showed up to say Hi. As it turns out, John is President of Turner’s Portable Welding, Inc., and showed up in one of his big portable welding trucks. Adolfo and his team said we could use one of their lifts to do the welding we needed. It’s going on as I type this..

Photos from the work at Econo Tune here.