My U-joints were going. I knew it, but, I had a vibration before the joints were going. So i had decided to buy a used one, put in new universals & get it balanced. Picked up one at the wreckers, & two miles from home, the rear universal lets go. I mean it's on the ground! Good thing I had my little 'wrecker's toolbox'. So here I am, on the side of a freeway, (RIGHT on the side! Skinny shoulders!), under a truck with a 4/6 drop, trying to put in a driveshaft. Easy job, right? Yea, sure!!! Every truck I see, while under this thing, has me scrambling out till their past.
Then along comes this guy, in an absolute beater, rust bucket, of a GMT400. Says "Let me give you a hand". Proceeds to put out orange cones about 500 ft. back from my truck, puts on an orange safety vest, then directs traffic into the next lane. Took me all of about 10 minutes to get the *&^$#@! driveshaft in. Guy runs up, asks me if everthing is copacetic. I tell him I'm good to go, just gotta pick my tools up. By the time I do that, he's picked up his stuff, and gone! Never saw him again!