Originally Posted By: Aspen7
My neighbor came to the rescue by jury rigging a temporary solution so I could get it to the garage this morning. It was too late to buy line at an auto parts store so he got some line off one of his old compressors and put it on there. Very much a temporary bandage just to get the car where it was going this morning. He's in his 70s and said he doesn't like crawling under cars in his old age, (especially not at 9pm in a dark carport on a plastic tarp thrown over spilled gasoline.) He wouldn't take money, so I owe him a lot of home made pies!
Your neighbor's a keeper too! Some folks (myself included) just like a good [censored] fest now and again. When life isn't challenging enough the occasional spurt of having to fix stuff in off-prime conditions is just the ticket.