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07-25-2022, 03:29 PM
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Home mechanics beware!
Well....
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07-25-2022, 04:19 PM
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I have always turned wrenches as a second job and now a second career. I have a full working shop in my home garage and I have absolutely taught each of my kids a whole new language when they were just young mechanics helpers...
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07-25-2022, 07:09 PM
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Good one Grumpy. Relates to a lot of us for sure! 
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07-25-2022, 07:31 PM
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Good advice here.
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07-25-2022, 08:34 PM
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Worked at a radiator shop, then became a carpenter. What I don't understand is why most of the rest of the world doesn't speak the same language as I do. Even tried teaching some of it to the DW when we first got married....ouch!
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07-25-2022, 09:14 PM
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Over the last few weeks, I've been working on a pretty challenging project. I may or may not have gotten frustrated a time or two. To quote my youngest daughter...."Dad, is that supposed to be on fire?"...........
I'll post pictures if/when I ever get it finished.
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07-25-2022, 09:45 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Midnightmoon
Over the last few weeks, I've been working on a pretty challenging project. I may or may not have gotten frustrated a time or two. To quote my youngest daughter...."Dad, is that supposed to be on fire?"...........
I'll post pictures if/when I ever get it finished.
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Ouch. That’s right up there with: “Is that supposed to be wet?”
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07-25-2022, 10:50 PM
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My father was a sailor and taught everything I needed to know to get the job done
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07-26-2022, 06:17 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LuckyDuck
Ouch. That’s right up there with: “Is that supposed to be wet?”
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As some of you know, I worked in a diesel shop for many years Back in the early 2000's, probably 2003 or 2004, we were getting the shop owner's race truck ready for an event out in Muncie Indiana. The event was called Thunder in Muncie back then if anyone ever heard of it.
Anyway, as it is with most shops, customer vehicles get finished first and then we worked on our stuff. So, as it always seemed to be, it was after midnight and we were just finishing up after doing a fire ring job, head gasket, and new ARP studs on his truck. As my buddy Ed was filling it up with water, my wife who did customer accounts for us, walks by and says, "Ed, are you spilling that?". Sure enough, water was running out between the head and the block at the very front corner of the engine. The shop owner Andy walked by, took one look, and turned out the lights. Needless to say, we left the next morning for Indiana without the race truck.
Turned out to be a defective gasket. There was a misplaced tab on it that protruded in to the water jacket. To this day we laugh about that night. Just the look on his face with the water on the floor was priceless.
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07-26-2022, 06:22 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LuckyDuck
Ouch. That’s right up there with: “Is that supposed to be wet?”
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The one that gets me is when the DW sez...
"Honey, may I make a suggestion?"
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07-26-2022, 07:48 AM
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Or, "Honey, can't you just give up and go get a new one?" GRRRR
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07-26-2022, 11:35 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by norty1
Or, "Honey, can't you just give up and go get a new one?" GRRRR
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Or, “Honey, maybe we should just pay a professional…” Owww.
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08-06-2022, 01:18 PM
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Ha! Good one!
My first rule of mechanics is, "it won't come loose until you bust your knuckles open."
Now I've traded busted-up knuckles for arthritic fingers. Kinda nostalgic for the old busted-knuckles feeling. : )
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08-06-2022, 02:20 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tunce the traveler
My father was a sailor and taught everything I needed to know to get the job done
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My uncle was a sailor too.
He said he bought a hammer for $2 and carried it everywhere. Whenever he was loafing and a boss showed up, he started beating on whatever was close to him. He said he got a commendation because he was 'always working'. No telling how much extra paint was used because of his 'work'.
He also told me the $2 hammer was the best tool purchase he ever made.
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08-06-2022, 03:42 PM
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My DW is a GREAT diagnostic expert. God bless her! We come home on 7/5 after a week long trip. 18yr old LG front loader washer has been working overtime for two days and she still has a pile that is waist deep to a tall Indian. 9:30pm washer decides its had enough. She's diagnosed it and said it won't go into a spin and is making this horrible noise. She shows me what's going on and it doesnt sound good. Sounds like the transmission is REALLY upset. I'm in no mood to start ripping a washer apart at that hour when I have to work in the morning. I'll check it out tomorrow. Nope, not good enough for her. She said its junk and we need a new one. Ok, fine. Get down to the local mom and pop appliance store next day and pick out a new one. BTW, you cant buy JUST a washer, you have to have a MATCHING SET. That's just GREAT!
$2700 cash and carry later, I got the old ones out, the new ones installed, which dont fit EXACTLY where the old ones did, she picked them out, and she now a has a learning curve ahead because they dont operate like the old ones do. She dont like that. Her diagnosis cost ME $2700 instead of about an hour in the garage with the old one to find all it needs is a $60 drain pump with a few days to get the pump as the wash is stacking up, and an hour or two to get it installed.
Like I said, God bless her! Lol!
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08-06-2022, 04:14 PM
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After four years in the Marines working on helicopters and jets, I learned any bolt or nut in a tight place will not go in or on unless treated to abusive, vile, and crude language.
This didn't go over well when I was working on my mothers car.... especially when my four year old daughter used it on my brother.
It took a bit of blackmail to get my daughter not to rat me out to her mother...
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08-06-2022, 05:32 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by KCSA75
Good advice here.
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Lol! I use to do that all the time!
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08-06-2022, 05:35 PM
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”Hey honey explain to me how or why you’re doing that”?
Then when I start explaining it to her, her eyes roll back in her head and she says “forget it I don’t want to know”! Don’t know why she asks in the first place this is a regular thing with her!
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08-06-2022, 06:09 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnynorthland
”Hey honey explain to me how or why you’re doing that”?
Then when I start explaining it to her, her eyes roll back in her head and she says “forget it I don’t want to know”! Don’t know why she asks in the first place this is a regular thing with her!
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I've got one of those too...
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08-06-2022, 07:21 PM
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You guys are lucky. All I ever hear is “yelling never helps with anything”! Little do they know…
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