When I was a kid I watched my dad rebuild the engine on his Chevy Chevelle. Years later in my pre-teens I bought an old broken down go-cart frame and two old lawnmower engines for fifteen dollars with four months of saved allowance. My dad taught me how to break them down, service them, and put back the best parts to make one good engine. That was a fun project, and led to an interest in doing my own automotive repairs when I came of driving age. A decent set of tools and a shop manual will allow anyone with a modicum of mechanical competency the ability to do simple repairs that would cost three or four times more if done by a professional mechanic. Along with the money savings, it is satisfaction in a job well done, and for me, insurance that the job has been done correctly. There have been enough times in my life when I had a job done by
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