What bugs me the most is RUST. I can't be bothered with a rusty car anymore. Too old. Next is wiring. I'm just no good at it unless its simple. What I like best is solving a problem on my own.
You know what I mean, like fixing a nagging miss in the engine, a electrical gremlin, a non working part back to normal.
What I really like these days is putting on a good coat of wax!

I absolutely love disassembling any old car to turn into parts if they're too far gone to be resurrected anymore. I like getting things working that weren't working when starting a project; (ie) clocks, radios accessories. I like to figure out wiring problems and fixing them if within my realm. The "grande" finale is washing and waxing the finish and cleaning the interior to perfection
and then dropping the top and cruisin' The Bend for an hour or so. Of course that's when the car is on the road.
My dislikes; well, it's not really a dislike, it's more intimidation. Welding anything as I've never even tried it in any way or any type of welding. Doing bodywork is not my forte as I've never done enough of it to make a fabulous job. Good enough to pass a safety and make it all one colour, yes. But cruise night material? Never.

I love taking old cars apart, I just wish I was a s fast at putting them back together!

-- Edited by ga on Sunday 7th of March 2010 08:38:17 PM

i like makeing the part look new again, i would love to have a blast cabinet but i fear i would go overboard. I love spraypainting, i dont know why, but i do. I spayed the whole car, and when it was first done nobody believed it was spraybombed.

Now what i dislike is wireing, rust repair (im not too good at welding yet) and when you are under a car, trying to get a bolt off, and you grab the wrong socket, so then you have to crawl out to get the right one.aahhhh!! I have tried to teach my dog to get the sockets, but it hasent been too succesfull!

the only way he will do anything is for a treat, but i think if i put them on the sockets, he would just eat them too, hes cute, but dumb!!LOL

thats a wicked car jd!!! I love how it looks lowered,very cool.

59poncho wrote:

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Now what i dislike is ... when you are under a car, trying to get a bolt off, and you grab the wrong socket, so then you have to crawl out to get the right one.aahhhh!!

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Trevor, grab the socket you believe is the correct size (I have gotten pretty good at eyeballing over the last 40+ years of wrenching) AND the sockets one size smaller and one size larger, that usually covers it

Thankfully our cars never used metric, so we don't also have to worry 'is that 1/2" or 13mm' eh?

Although that does bring me to one thing I hate about working on my car - buying new parts (like the disc brake system) and discovering that the fasteners are metric (after I have almost rounded off bolt heads using standard wrenches).

So ...

Like = most everything, especially mechanical (wiring is OK because it is so simple in old cars), take it apart, clean/paint or new parts, put it back to gether, and it looks/works good again. Doors, windows, dash, steering, suspension, brakes, engine, rear end, all of it. Problem solving, simple fabrication, scoring a desired part (like virgin NOS radio delete plate). Most of all, stepping back after completing a job and the feeling of accomplishment.

Hate = not really hate, but do not like to do bodywork, same fear as Todd about brakes (but mine ended up working great), do not know how to weld and not willing to try to build that skill this late in life.

Dave

I enjoy it all, I'm not saying I'm the best at any of it but I'll do it all, engines, wiring, metal work, body work, even interior work. There's a great satisfaction when complete.
I dislike dealling with rust, but it can be delt with, and it's always rewarding to beat the rust, at least for now.
My other dislike is not enough time, but the things that eat up my time are very rewarding as well, so can't complain too much. There's always next winter.

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my problem right now is that i need to get those little plastic things to put your sockets on in your toolbox. I have the metal ones with the clips to hold them on but find them annoying. I really need to organize, thats the key to happy wrenching!!

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I agree about those dumb metal clips - what I did, long ago, I had a friend who did lots of woodworking and he had a drill press, so I bought a piece of 3/4" plywood, we cut it to fit the top of my tool box, then laid out all my sockets nicely, marked their locations, and used his wide selection of drill bits to drill holes halfway down into the plywood, varnished it, and ta-da! Cheap, well organized, and most important, each socket is easy to get and replace, and impossible to put back wrong.


(you can only see part of the socket holder in the picture above - the 1/4" drive sockets are to the front, and the 1/2" drive sockets are to the right)(the left side has metric and torx/hex)

Dave

Trevor, I'd go for the maple, I think the lighter color will make the sockets stand out more. Hope it works out for you!

Dave

I hate having no room to get at my cars! man I need to sell something so I can get worling on the t/a. I refuse to park the zedder outside in the weather. Still for sale though.

Dave,The wish list for a huge shop is already on paper. if I could only convince the wife now, hmmmm.............