She either has a boyfriend or a relative that turns wrenches is my best guess.
In my 45+ years of wrenching, I can assure you that Mechanics and Maintenance Technicians are the Red Headed Step Children of every organization out there.
Until they need your services…
That part about assholes who call me and tell me that the machine is down to get me there faster only for me to have to wait because they are actually still using it hit the nail on the head.
I couldn’t count how many times I have seen that. Inevitably, they then have the gall to stand and look over your shoulder asking when it’s going to be done every ten minutes.
After all these years I have learned to either ignore them or turn around and tell them that I’ll let them know when I’m done.
Fuck You and your pressure tactics.
I didn’t break the motherfucker and you knew damn good and well it was fucked up LONG before you called me in most cases.
My absolute favorite part is when I get to inform them that the part they need has a six month lead time and if they had called me when they first knew about the problem that the part could have probably been here by now.
The look of panic on their faces is priceless.
Here’s a piece of advice you need to pass down to your children.
He sends me emails occasionally showing me some of the things he fixes. Sometimes in Minus Degree Weather, in the mud, in his driveway, on his brother’s farm and in his garage.
What he has done sometimes makes me look like I would like to have been a mechanic once.
I am not exaggerating even a little bit.
The man amazes me.
Because he is in New York state somewhere, he is very familiar with rusted out rigs because of the salt they use on the roads and he has performed some small miracles on his own rigs but this one in the video I’m afraid is so far gone that I am surprised it hasn’t literally broken in half yet.
It should scare you that there are vehicles out on the roads in this condition.
As a life long mechanic, looking at this absolute BEHEMOTH of an antique engine, I wonder how in the hell did they torque the huge bolts down on this thing?
Take the connecting rod cap bolts for example.
Did they take a team of horses, hook up a chain to a giant wrench and then have them pull on it until some guy up top yelled CLICK?!
Now I am going to have to look into that when I get home from work because it’s going to bug me all day because I don’t recall ever seeing a twenty foot, three inch drive torque wrench anywhere in my internet travels over the years….
The plastic radiator tanks coming apart internally and plugging up your heater core.
Of course the industry will never, ever go back to Brass radiators because they are outrageously expensive.
So what are you supposed to do?
The only thing I can think of is to reverse flush your heater core every year to try and keep as much of that crap out of your cooling system as possible and replace your damn radiator every 3 years.
Something else I learned 30 years ago when I was going to school to work on the newer (Then) cars, your radiator and cooling system hoses rot from the inside out. The friction of the coolant running through the engine gives the coolant an electrical charge and that charge pulls the carbon out of the rubber from the inside of the hoses.
That’s probably what’s happening with the plastic radiator tanks too.
We just paid a shit ton of money replaceing ELEVEN freaking hoses on the Wifely Unit’s 2004 Ford Focus with silicone hoses to eleiminate that issue.
