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FreeBug
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 Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 5:10 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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| Oh, and you know the plug behind the flywheel on prepped cases? You know the one... |
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jbbugs
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 5:24 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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| FreeBug wrote: |
| Oh, and you know the plug behind the flywheel on prepped cases? You know the one... |
The small one on the right side that gets hidden by the arm of your engine stand when it’s bolted to it?😬
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nextgen
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| Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 6:29 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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Freebug, that happened to a friend of mine in a very large HESS Gas station in NYC, they must have 10 filling stations with two cars in each.
He pulled out out and ripped the hose .. Did not get fare, the Fire Alarm went off and every station started shooting out the Extinguisher white power, on all the cars and Taxis.
You could not see the station. Then came the Fire Trucks.
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FreeBug
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 12:50 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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| nextgen wrote: |
Freebug, that happened to a friend of mine in a very large HESS Gas station in NYC, they must have 10 filling stations with two cars in each.
He pulled out out and ripped the hose .. Did not get fare, the Fire Alarm went off and every station started shooting out the Extinguisher white power, on all the cars and Taxis.
You could not see the station. Then came the Fire Trucks. |
Boy, that brings back memories...the white and green (iirc) HESS trucks..
Well, I'm damn lucky, then. The "pistol" bit just snapped off, with some sort of safety valve. Not a drop of gas was spilled.
I go see the cashier, and explain what I just did, she comes out, and we try to clip the gun back in, with limited success. I tell her "well, you know who I am (I only go to that 1 gas station, usually), I'll be back, I gotta go (was late for a meeting)".
Pull in a few days later, but the boss isn't there. The day shift was not aware of anything, and didn't know what I was talking about. I felt bad, when I would drive by for a few days, there was an OUT OF ORDER sign on the pump...yikes, I'm costing them money.
Ok, go back again, and find the boss. He's always liked me, for some unfathomable reason, always insists on shaking my hand when I come in (back in the days we did such things), and I 'fess up, and with a hard gulp, ask him how much I owe. 5 days of lost business on a pump, the intervention of whomever it takes to clip that pistol onto the hose...it's going to be a lot.
"don't worry, we're insured", he says, with a wave of the hand.
But i guess everything is more exiting in NYC!
There was a time, stuck in France, and out of the right money, I drove under the toll barrier, slipping through with the car ahead. I always wondered if it was possible.... turns out it is. But THAT set off alarms and sirens and flashing lights and people screaming at me through a speaker, general mayhem. I was less than 5 miles from the border, so I made a run for it. Never heard anything more about it, even though they must have cameras, but it was 2$, so not worth pursuing, I assume. |
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&Dan
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2021 10:19 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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Misplaced my favorite old small, perfectly-sized Vise-Grip, looked all over, gone.
Six months later a customer dropped off his Beetle for some work, and the Vise-grip was right where I left it, holding the clutch cable for adjustment. D'ulp.
If no one saw you do it, it never happened. |
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Cusser
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 7:23 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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| &Dan wrote: |
Misplaced my favorite old small, perfectly-sized Vise-Grip, looked all over, gone.
Six months later a customer dropped off his Beetle for some work, and the Vise-grip was right where I left it, holding the clutch cable for adjustment. D'ulp. |
I did just that in 1974, but on one of the 60 rental dune buggies where I was working. I was pi$$ed because I'd had that ViseGrip since I was a little kid, so happy when I worked on that buggy gain and found it.
Did similar about 1980 with my own VW; the battery hold down stud broke off so I drilled a new hole next to it and inserted a long bolt from underneath. I used the same ViseGrip to hold the bolt head from turning as I installed a nut to hold the bolt in place to act as a new stud, forgot to retrieve it. Found it months later.
Still have that ViseGrips too !!!
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mark tucker
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| Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2021 8:47 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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| hmm I never used any thing to hold the clutch cable.you guys might need to add some lube to the threads....I got one of these fancy billet anodized nut spinner thingys to replace the oe wing nut....I use the oe wing nut. the nut spinndy thingy is,1 sharp edges, hurts my sensitive fingers,2 hard to turn,3 not quite the right size,4,pain in the ass to try to use, 5 somewhere on a shelf. IMHO the oe ones I use work perfect. and quite eazy to use and see howmuch you have turned it. |
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| Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:41 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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| &Dan wrote: |
Misplaced my favorite old small, perfectly-sized Vise-Grip, looked all over, gone.
Six months later a customer dropped off his Beetle for some work, and the Vise-grip was right where I left it, holding the clutch cable for adjustment. D'ulp.
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Working for Brown's Auto Repair, on a 71-73 era Mustang, in the late 70's.
Replaced Fender, & replaced bumper, got all the gaps right using a C-clamp on a a bent bumper bracket.
Returned car to kid once repair completed.
Day later Father of kid returns to shop with the C-clamp I'd left on the Mustang.
My Boss, Chuck took a bunch of shit from Dad, about that C-clamp.
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&Dan
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| Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 8:04 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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| It's kind of like sending a tool on a long vacation: "Send a postcard when you can. Have a ball!" |
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Dauz
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| Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 9:39 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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I don't think the title of this thread is justified. It's usually warranted when there's no more toilet paper and you have to get up and fudgy butt walk around to find the next best thing. Or the walk back to your dorm the next morning after a shameful and regrettable one night stand.
I don't know how many times I've slammed the hood shut on one of my vehicles only to find out later that I've left a tool or two in the engine bay. That's just .. normal absentmindededism |
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MrWhoopee
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| Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 3:30 pm Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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| &Dan wrote: |
Misplaced my favorite old small, perfectly-sized Vise-Grip, looked all over, gone.
Six months later a customer dropped off his Beetle for some work, and the Vise-grip was right where I left it, holding the clutch cable for adjustment. D'ulp.
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Did the same thing on my '58 sub hatch. It was much more than 6 months, but the vise grips held.
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FarmerBill
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| Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 4:31 pm Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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| We once bought a beat to death Pixall bean harvester. This thing was a huge, 13 foot tall, 25 foot long, articulated monster. We spent 5 months crawling all over this thing, we replaced just about every component on that machine. When we drove it out of the shop and had it idling in the driveway about a dozen tools dropped out of it on to the ground. End wrenches, screw drivers, vice grips, punches, it was a tool box worth stuff. |
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nextgen
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| Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2021 8:22 pm Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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You want Shame, this is shame!!! Lived in apartment complex back in about 1972, I took my 1600 69 engine apart. Split the case and figured it needed a cleaning . GUNK was the cleaner of choice. Grabbed a bunch of brushes and I did what any professional mechanic would do when their wife was not home.
Got naked ( no not porn ) and me and the case halves took a shower. I blasted them with Gunk and brushed the heck out of them. Beautiful job!!
Got dressed took the case out of the apt. and all was good till my wife got home.
Think of something that has a smell as strong as gasoline and someone poured a quart in your living room. Well that is what my wife came home to smell.
WHAT THE -----????? It is about 50 years later and for some reason that incident keeps popping up.
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mark tucker
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 9:50 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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| for a min there I thought you were trying to stroke it in the shower....do you still have the same wife?? I used to have my compleate roadster body in the dining room for about 12 years...built my yz250 in there, totaly reworked my 4 wheeler in there( painted out side) I think all the stuff I built in there and used the dish washer to final clean all parts...might of helped me get my 34x24 central cool&heat,kitchen,bathroom engine room,blasting/porting room shop get built with a smile. our flower vases were 2x4 polished tunnel rams. I miss those.wish I had kept atleast 1 when I sold off all my racing stuff.I did keep 1 hemi...somehwere. I need to find it all and put it togeather with a blower on it.( kept 2 of those.) |
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 10:22 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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| I knew a Saab mechanic that told me the factory procedure for breaking the crank pully loose on the 900 was to put a breaker bar and socket on the bolt, brace it against the body, and crank the starter, with the coil disconnected. He then described why that last bit was so important. |
Yep. It's in the factory manual. The reason is the engine is backwards, with the pulley up against the firewall. No room to get an impact on it.
I have also forgotten to pop the coil connector... Sigh... That was exciting.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 11:04 am Post subject: Re: Just did the walk of shame. |
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Mark, yep still have the same wife, 52 years, married. After moving from the apt to a house on 2 archers of land, then I was really able to work on cars. Full machine shop in my garage.
The photo is of my wife 1969 winter, see snow in the background, no heat.
I raced MGA's till I had to get something reliable. MGA did not have door handles or locks, just a wire to pull after you open up the Plexiglass windows.
That was when Rich from EMPI East Coast got me on VW's, I bought all my MGA parts from his store.
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