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Coroja

So what is the most frustrating shop incident, that can be expressed in one sentence, you have experienced recently? I'll start...

How frustrating is it to kick over the waste fluid container just as you finish bleeding your brakes?

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RonL

"Dammit, I cut it and cut it and cut it and it's STILL too short!"

McQueen

+1000. Thankfully, only my '79 has disks. Makes me love the drum brakes!

Mine? I don't even need a full sentence, just three words: kickstart return spring. Grrrr!

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koifarm

Tool Humor

Drill Press
A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly painted airplane part you were drying.

Wire Wheel
Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprint whorls and hard-earned guitar calluses in about the time it takes you to say, “Ouch....”

Electric Hand Drill
Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age.

Pliers
Used to round off bolt heads.

Hacksaw
One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes.

Vise-Grips
Used to round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer intense welding heat to the palm of your hand.

Oxyacetylene Torch
Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub you want the bearing race out of.

Whitworth Sockets
Once used for working on older British cars and motorcycles, they are now used mainly for impersonating that 9/16" or 1/2" socket you’ve been searching for the last 15 minutes.

Hydraulic Floor Jack
Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new disk brake pads, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper.

8' Douglas Fir 2x4
Used for levering an automobile upward off a hydraulic jack handle.

Tweezers
A tool for removing wood splinters.

Phone
Tool for calling your neighbour to see if he has another hydraulic floor jack.

Snap-On Gasket Scraper
Theoretically useful as a sandwich tool for spreading mayonnaise; used mainly for getting dog**** off your boot.

E-Z Out Bolt and Stud Extractor
A tool ten times harder than any known drill bit that snaps off in bolt holes you couldn’t use anyway.

Two-Ton Engine Hoist
A tool for testing the tensile strength on everything you forgot to disconnect.

Craftsman ½"x16" Screwdriver
A large prybar that inexplicably has an accurately machined screwdriver tip on the end opposite the handle.

Aviation Metal Snips
See hacksaw.

Trouble Light
The home mechanic’s own tanning booth. Sometimes called a drop light, it is a good source of vitamin D, “the sunshine vitamin,” which is not otherwise found under cars at night. Health benefits aside, its main purpose is to consume 40-watt light bulbs at about the same rate that 105-mm Howitzer shells were used during the first few hours of the Battle of the Bulge. More often dark than light, its name is somewhat misleading.

Phillips Screwdriver
Normally used to stab the lids of old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splash oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads.

Air Compressor
A machine that takes energy produced in a coal-burning power plant 200 miles away and transforms it into compressed air that travels by hose to a Chicago Pneumatic impact wrench that grips rusty bolts last over-tightened 58 years ago by someone at ERCO and neatly rounds off their heads.

Pry Bar
A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50-cent part.

Hose Cutter
A tool used to cut hoses too short.

Hammer
Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts not far from the object we are trying to hit.

Mechanic’s Knife
Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts.

Dammit Tool
Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling “Damn it!” at the top of your lungs. It is also the next tool that you will need.

Expletive
A balm, usually applied verbally in hindsight, which somehow eases those pains and indignities following our every deficiency in foresight.

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Sitting on a cornflake waiting for the van to come!

seumas

I lost the spring out of the cam chain tensioner the first time I adjusted the valves on my 900. It flew across the garage and I never did find the thing. Had to buy a new one.

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koifarm

Quality! I'm an engineer... SO true! At least one of them every day.... :hammer:

Erm, hows about dropping the oil, and not being able to get the filter off??? Or it at least taking 10 times longer than it should, resorting to stabbing it (with a Phillips screwdriver) and then making a huge, oily mess, covering discs, pads, paint, floor, clothes, everything...

Not that I've found out through personal experiance...

dogtired

"Might just nip that bracket bolt up a tiny bit more because it mig... aaah sod."

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TucsonBill

Father to son, "You'll get to drive when you know how a car works. Go change the oil like I taught you and you'll be driving before you know it!"
Climb under car.
Drain oil.
Put new oil in car.
Have dad drive to store and have car never run again.
Find out from not too happy dad that you drained the transmission and over filled the engine oil!

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Iron Butt #26777
Tucson, Arizona

MrsNickwiz

Any time that MrNickwiz is in the garage! Always ends in flying hammers.

Coroja

Mrs. Nick,

You are merciless! Reminds me of the time I thought my (trophy) wife would benefit by learning how to change the rear main seal in her car.

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The people who talk the most generally have the smallest results. Results speak for themselves. - Matt Mladin