Thoughts on the Weekend
- Once you mix the water and latex adhesive with Mr. Fast Drying Cement, time is not your friend.
- It is amazing how much a difference it makes to actually have the correct tool for the job.
- It is also amazing how much easier doing a job becomes when you decide that ‘pretty’ is not a requirement.
- The concrete repair work we did this weekend is going to be covered with wood decking, so all I needed was for it to be sound, strong, and watertight.
- I have had an extraordinary month in car repair. I have never had to replace the battery in each and every vehicle I own in one calendar month. Today, I made that happen.
- Ladies, when your husband is bent over the engine of your car in front of an auto parts store in a bad neighborhood, sitting in the driver’s seat and making witty comments about the drunks and tweekers who are stumbling down to the convenience store next door doesn’t do much for his nerves.
- Dear Chrysler Engine Compartment Engineer – I hope you and everyone you ever loved dies in a fire.
- If I have to tear parts of the engine out in order to get to the battery, you are wrong
- If the bolt that holds the battery containment bar, also known as “That !#$! piece of steel”, is 9/32, and the nuts that hold the cables to the battery are 10mm, you are wrong.
- If it takes a maneuver reminiscent of docking the space shuttle to the space station to get said battery out of its little space in the engine compartment, with a repeat to put the new one in, then you are wrong.
- When you are shot in the facemask with a wax bullet about 3.5 seconds into a firefight, you have a very long time laying on the cold ground in the dark ahead of you.
Posted by daddybear71 on September 23, 2012
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/ September 24, 2012We had similar issues with the so-called battery compartment on our Buick minivan. It wouldn’t pass inspection at first because of the way the recently-replaced battery was sitting in its under-engine hidey-hole. Figuring out how to keep the battery in its rightful (and inaccessible) place was an interesting challenge for my dad’s mechanic.
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