Comments by "Wakeup and Sniff the Coffee" (@Wakeupandsniffthecoffee) on "Wrenching With Kenny"
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I spent many years in Maui, in Hawaii operating a two way radio shop. Some of my customers were HC&S, the biggest, Wailuku Sugar, shut down and they built houses in the property and Lahaina Sugar, they had their own tech and I just got the jobs he didn't want to tackle.
These trucks, mostly Fords ran almost their whole life in the Maui, much and mud, coated everywhere with dirt.
I give the mechanics credit that had to work on them. The mechanics and purchasing agent were the ones that dealt with me.
A lot of them had the old Motorola remote mount radios.
Basically big boat anchor type transceivers that had to mount behind or sometimes under the seat. When a removal and reinstall came up, pulling the radios out of the filth was tough, but because they were usually going back into a brand new truck, the install was easier, but I had to do some heavy duty cleaning of each radio, cables and control head. I did the cleanup and maintenance check and tune up. But the radio had to look almost new or the person driving the new truck would have a fit, which I don't blame them. First of all the radios were like thirty years old and new ones were the ideal situation, but the purchasing agents wanted to save money and reuse the radio for another few years.
This truck brings back those memories.
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