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What are some car-repair jobs you always wished you could do but have never done?
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Xeno wrote:
> Up to a point, I agree with you. Where I disagree is that most people > use them incorrectly (backwards) or size them inappropriately. They are > no different to an open end spanner when used correctly and, need it be > said, they are of a decent quality. When working on earthmoving > equipment, the most common adjustables I used were 15". 18" and 24". You > have no idea how many different spanners those three adjustables > replaced. In field work you need to cart *all your tools* with you. You > always look to minimise that load. I should have made it clear that I was just kidding about making them illegal. I fully understand the *need* for the adustable wrenches, and I have a Craftsman 3-piece set myself, which I almost never use. I've probably used one about twenty times in forty years. My beef is when people use them on "my stuff" when they have a perfectly good socket wrench in the truck just 100 feet away. |
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> Fractionally more than you. I watch the news on TV. That's it. I get my news off the net. But someone must be watching TV or cable (I don't have cable either). My point is only that people spend time watching TV so they can't say that taking your sweet time doing an oil change is wasted time if they're wasting time watching "As the World Turns" all day. |
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> Just add gear to your list and delete pushrod. We are talking about > driving the *camshaft*. gear, chain, belt. There are a few varieties of > chain in use; single row, double row, hyvo. Thanks. Had I done the job even once, I'd know more than I do, so I will gladly take your word for it that there are three choices and we must pick one of the three. 1. Gear 2. Belt 3. Chain We have to pick one. Which is the most reliable? |
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Xeno wrote:
>> I remember $1000 but they didn't pass that on to the consumer in toto. > > Cars are cheaper now than they were when I was a boy. It would be interesting to look at the normalized price. A car then, was $5K, and now is $50K so 10x doesn't seem too much off from even given inflation. >> I posit they lose handling. > > They gain handling as long as they understand it's *different handling*. Spoken like a true Marketing person! My RWD car has never seen snow in 20 years except a few runs to Tahoe where they legally required chains to get there. Even when I lived in the snow belt ... deep snow was only on the road when I needed the road for 1 or 2 days of the year, and at max, 10 days out of 365. Think of that. Lousy handling for 355 days and just barely ok handling in deep snow for the other 10 days. The real FWD tradeoff was *never* handling. It was profits. >> Maybe FWD is better now ... but I think I'll have to go to my deathbed >> before owning a FWD car... simply because I don't want to fall for the >> marketing trap that everyone else easily falls into. >> > FWD works for me. I have nothing against a cheaper tool. Nothing. A car is a tool. A FWD is a cheaper tool. I just have something against someone seriously trying to tell me that his cheaper lawnmower works better in the snow than does my more expensive lawnmower. I work off of logic. Not marketing bull****. I never said I was always right though ... so if someone can show me fwd in the best handling cars on the planet and at a cheap price ... count me in. |
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On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 00:46:35 +1100, Xeno >
wrote: >On 6/11/2017 9:36 PM, Vic Smith wrote: >> On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 02:57:16 -0500, wrote: >> >> >>> Only the stop-tech article is written by a pro (Can't open the >>> raybestos link so it's useless) >> >> That "pro" says to replace brake fluid once a year. >> I wonder how many people do that. >> I never replace brake fluid unless I've got the system open. >> >Every two years at a minimum was what it used to be. The fluid is >hygroscopic and will absorb moisture out of the air or anywhere it can. The new master cyls have a better atmospheric seal, so if you never open the top to check or change fluid it's a bit better than it used to be, but 2 years is still the recomendation. |
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