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May 17th, 2001, 06:24 AM
#1
Any Barnyard Mechanics
Anyone here do their own mechanical work? I have been doing battle with my Tempo (beater)
for a day or so.
"Sometimes Death smiles at a man and the best a man can do is smile back"-Marcus Arillius
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May 17th, 2001, 06:26 AM
#2
I know Dodge/Chrysler engines and Harleys and that's IT. I don't mess with anything else.
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May 17th, 2001, 06:28 AM
#3
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MECHANICAL WORK?
cripes, have u seen my pc building skills in action????
talk about ham-fisted...
Mr Miyagi, by any other name... (is this sig short enough?)
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May 17th, 2001, 06:32 AM
#4
I have been working on the rear main seal in my Cherokee for 2 days now. What a pain!
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May 17th, 2001, 07:32 AM
#5
It's all fun and games...ain't it?
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May 17th, 2001, 07:32 AM
#6
sorry i could tell you the innermost workings of a honda engine but i only know how tho change a valve cover gasquet on a tempo
When all else fails use HAND AND FOOT MODULATION
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May 17th, 2001, 07:42 AM
#7
Barnyard mechanic? Well, I once souped up a chicken.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Hunter S. Thompson
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May 17th, 2001, 07:49 AM
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I don't even change my own oil, or pump my own gas (self-serve is non-existant in NJ). I can pretty much dissasmeble and reassemble a VCR, but the car . . . it's like magic. Ooooohhh, horseless carriage. Mechanics love me, I'm sure I get taken all the time. 2 hours labor to drain the coolant? Okay.
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May 17th, 2001, 07:50 AM
#9
I just like the manly feeling that goes along with working on a car, whether it be popping the hood, filling up the windshield washer fluid, etc, etc. I can work on Fords and Chevy’s, once had a '63 Chevy Impala that I restored. I current have a Audi, not even going to try to decipher what them Germans built.
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May 17th, 2001, 07:52 AM
#10
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Originally posted by Pogi:
Barnyard mechanic? Well, I once souped up a chicken.
ROTFLMSO!!!! You funny guy, Pogi.
Flash! Don't heckle the supervillain!
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May 17th, 2001, 07:54 AM
#11
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I was a mechanic years ago and I hated it. I have worked on about everything out there at one point. Chevrolet's are my specialty. I have restored a lot of cars but now I am pretty bored with it. I built a Harley Shovelhead and loved it, I am now trying to sell my '66 Nova so I can build another bike. I'm thinking Softail, S&S, De-raked. Open Primary, I am getting a chubby.........
"We have assumed control"
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May 17th, 2001, 08:00 AM
#12
I tinker with fords and chevys. They both break down just as much as the other.
I've completly restored an F150, but could have built two chevy trucks for the price of that one ford alone!
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May 17th, 2001, 08:02 AM
#13
OK, Here's the deal. Started skipping the other day thought it may be the fuel filter. I had to try anyway. Nope stopped for gas the other day. When I went to leave the station I got as far as the entrance and stalled. It tried to start and when it would start I had to floor it just to keeo it running at 75o, rough rpm. Made a major black spot on the pavement from the exhaust. Im thinking overfuel from bad injector. Has one injector over the intake. I hate to go by one and find out its a computer fuel metering promblem what do you think?**Bulit a 76 shovelhead fx took it to 1340, braided lines glass beaded chore and gold everywhere
black and gold paint s+s carb drag pipes, fatbob, got divorced, no more scoot.
"Sometimes Death smiles at a man and the best a man can do is smile back"-Marcus Arillius
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May 17th, 2001, 08:18 AM
#14
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May 17th, 2001, 08:24 AM
#15
Lets see, I quit turning wrenches for a living to work on computers.... ( heck I THOUGHT that it would be cleaner) dont really miss it all that much. but it is nice to know that i never have to take my car to a garage except for state inspections. which I am licenced to do but you have to be working in a garage to make it valid..
I am a Chevy person at heart..
had a 71 and a 75 vega... 4 cyl... swapped a 350 into the 75... had a 83 s 10 that i lowered 7 inches and swapped a 250 into...( I love 350's) have had about 10 or 15 other chevys over the years.. Currently I have a 77 and a 81 chevy full size truck... the 81 is in the process of getting 6 more inches of lift...
HUNGRY?.....UNEMPLOYED?.....EAT YOUR F#%$ING
JAP CAR!!!!!!!
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