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I don't know how they do it.
October 30, 2019 at 7:47 am
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I recently ran into a guy who drives, owns a car and he admitted to the fact that he knows nothing about car maintenance. He doesn't even check the oil and seemed strangely proud of his ignorance.
Really? It seems pretty dumb to me to be totally at the mercy to a mechanic's honesty.
I do virtually all the work on our cars. (We have 9 running) There is only a few things - like wheel alignment or changing tires off rims - that I don't do. (The necessary equipment is too expensive)
But I do know what those jobs take - and know what they should cost.
To me -going to a mechanic with no knowledge of the internal workings of a vehicle - it is sort of like religion. Trusting somebody (who has a profit motive) to handle part of your life and expecting to not get ripped off.
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RE: I don't know how they do it.
October 30, 2019 at 7:55 am
My BIL bought an engine out of a '68 Impala station wagon in 1980. It still had the factory oil filter in it.
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RE: I don't know how they do it.
October 30, 2019 at 8:02 am
(October 30, 2019 at 7:47 am)onlinebiker Wrote: I recently ran into a guy who drives, owns a car and he admitted to the fact that he knows nothing about car maintenance. He doesn't even check the oil and seemed strangely proud of his ignorance.
Really? It seems pretty dumb to me to be totally at the mercy to a mechanic's honesty.
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You just described my wife. And my ex, and my other ex.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: I don't know how they do it.
October 30, 2019 at 8:39 am
The L.O.L. could see the grocery store from her drive way, and the church was closer. It was ... fun cleaning it up. Went right down the shiney.
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RE: I don't know how they do it.
October 30, 2019 at 8:51 am
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2019 at 8:54 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
I'm by no means a car mechanic, but I know enough to know this:
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isn't right.
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October 30, 2019 at 8:51 am
You would have liked that project, I think. IIRC it was a 389(?) dropped into a Nova body. Needed wheelie casters.
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RE: I don't know how they do it.
October 30, 2019 at 8:54 am
One of my dad's friends did his own mechanic work, and he used Quaker State (non-detergent, yet!) because it used so much oil. When he took a valve cover off because he was going to do a valve job (265 CID V-8), the oil had congealed in the shape of the inside of the valve cover. The push rods and rocker arms were the only place that the Jello-like green sludge wasn't. Same in the lifter galley- the push rods were surrounded by green goo.
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