4 weeks ago, my 1978 GMC K15 Sierra Grande 350 V8 suddenly died while backing into my workshop. The starter would turn the engine over but there was only a slow 1-cylinder fire every 1 second and the engine would die if you tried to give it gas. I had it towed to a repair shop I have used for decades in this small town. I told them that I thought it might be the fuel pump. After a week, they finally looked at it and said the fuel pump was fine but that they had "gone as far as they could" and the truck was old and that they did not want to do anything else. The truck was now unable to be driven, sitting on their lot. One of the owners offered to buy the truck from me as a project for his son and I told him I would think about it. I decided to see if anyone else might be able to fix my old truck and saw that Angry Irish Repair had a 4.7 star rating on Google, 1 tenth of a point better than my old shop so I called and Dusty said he would be able to look at it since he loves working on older vehicles. I called the towing service that he recommended and had it towed down the street and within 2 days Dusty had the truck running with a new distributor assembly, new spark plugs and wires. He recommended new valve cover gaskets since they were leaking oil and a new carburetor gasket that was malformed and causing a vacuum leak. I asked him to also replace the exhaust system since the mufflers have had large holes in them for the last 10 years. I also asked him to look at the brakes since the brake light warning light had been coming on for years, another item that the last repair shop failed to fix years ago when I asked them to look at it. Dusty worked on decades of neglected repair and got it all done in a little over a week. He also recommended that I replace the sagging front leaf springs and all four shocks since they have been gone for a while as well, which he will replace once the parts come in. The engine and brakes are now like new while the exhaust system is better than new since he replaced the rusted exhaust manifolds with thin wall steel headers which seemed to have increased the power a little and the Flowmaster mufflers are quiet. While doing decades of maintenance all at once has been expensive, it is certainly less expensive than a new truck and this classic 1978 is a joy to drive now. I can't wait to see how well it handles with the new springs and shocks and the new tires that I have sitting in my workshop to replace the current 24 year old tires once the suspension is upgraded. Dusty is a master mechanic and I would trust him with any of my vehicles when a repair or service is needed. read more