TrineonX

Who's up for a good laugh at my expense? well, after struggling to get the throttle body taken off my engine so I could replace my supposedly faulty intake gasket, I noticed that the heater hose that runs right in front of the firewall had poorly repaired split in it, and what else, a puddle of antifreeze beneath it. Whoops, I guess I'm a dumbshit. I got my car so i could learn how they worked, and who doesn't love to do something the hard way.

SS124A

um, maybe i am still really drunk..

but I don't get it..

DAVID GRIMES

Translation: He thought his leak was coming from one place and so he removed lotsa **** only to find that he could have repaired it without going through all that grief if he'd just opened his eyes first. Better ?

hiboost7

wanna hear something alot more stupid....this guy comes into my job looking for a wheel cylinder so he brings his old one....while inspecting the one im about to selll him he pushes the sides in, which pushes air out of the bleeder screw. well the guy tries it on his which still has brake fluid in it and squirts himself right in the eye, what an idiot! what makes it worse is that he didnt AGAIN about a minute latr in his other eye! damn stupid rednecks haha

trochoid

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Experience is the best teacher.

Learning under the hood is far better than at a desk.

Aviator 902S

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

But some people need way more "experience" than most of us do before the light bulb finally goes on.

Dom

I have leaky brakes on my car. Every time I get in the car, the first thing I do is push on the brake pedal to see if there still good.

So when I start to work on the brakes, I have disassembled the callipers from the disks, I get in the car for a break, and again, the first thing I do is push on the brake pedal to test the brakes and pop the cylinder out of the calliper!

Now I know why mechanics put cars up on a hoist to work: It's not an ergonomic thing, but a way to protect themselves from stupid mistakes.

SS124A

I have suggested to knew RX-7 owners for years that as soon as they get the car home they should almost completely disassemble it and go through each hose, belt, wire, connection, etc etc..


this is a nice way to learn, and find those stupid little things.


I have a whole list of small reliability Mods (most of which you guys do as well) for these RX-7 newbies.

I haven't seen it posted in a while, but maybe we should start a new thread of <85 reliability Mods.

rwatson5651

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Hey, is that a tattoo??

BigJim

and were you at rotary revo, i think i saw someone with that tatoo there

jays83gsl

Yes, let's start one of those threads again. God knows I could've used it a half a year ago.