Fun with Mechanicry (Trees And Things)

DEMachina: Re: Fun with Mechanicry

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:29:01 EST

Yeah...unfortunately it's awkwardly placed on that car, plus whoever changed it last overtightened it, which means it got still tighter because of the vibrations of the car running.

thefadd: Re: Fun with Mechanicry

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 00:35:38 EST

I picked up one of those handy socket wrenches and that always seems to give me the room and leverage I need. Then again, all I know how to do is change a batter

DEMachina: Re: Fun with Mechanicry

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 00:33:30 EST

Yeah, that was going to be our last resort, 'cause you end up spraying oil everywhere, plus you can end up totally shredding the filter which makes it even harder to get out.

zyxwvutsr: Re: Fun with Mechanicry

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 22:51:35 EST

You don't need no stinkin' "chain-based wrench." You get a stout flathead screwdriver, and a hammer of some sort, and you pound the screwdriver through the oil filter and use that for leverage. Of course if that doesn't do the trick you're screwed because

DEMachina: Re: Fun with Mechanicry

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:25:32 EST

Yeah, I don't really trust dealers' competence either. A dealer busted the battery in my dad's pickup a couple years ago and then tried to charge him for it after admitting that they had done it (seems when they admitted it they thought it was under

DEMachina: Re: I Can Change A Battery

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:21:14 EST

Computers are the new tinkerer's joy, I think. I'm lucky enough to have grown up at that time when you had to know what you were doing in order to use the things, but they were simple enough you could teach yourself easily.

I figure that's part of

DEMachina: Re: More bad news

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 21:18:39 EST

Ummm, I think tranny fluid supposed to be red...sort of like cherry syrup. And yours was black? Back in my amateur wrenching days brownish red or even cloudy tranny fluid was considered a sign of danger below.

Of that I have no doubt.

MayorBob: Re: Fun with Mechanicry

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:14:09 EST

My father's first new car he ever owned was a 1965 Buick (before that, he always had a company car). When he logged 5,000 miles I offered to do an oil change for him. He refused telling me he only wanted professionals touching his car. So

thefadd: I Can Change A Battery

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 18:23:56 EST

...but that's about it. Two things I have enough of a knowledge about to know what I don't know but wish I knew more: cars and computers.

Lou: More bad news

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 18:00:10 EST

Don't feel bad. I once sp

keta: Re: Fun with Mechanicry

Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:07:14 EST

Your post is exactly why I've never wanted to, or intend to, work on cars.

As a spatial-relationship-challenged individual, I'm often a marvel at taking things apart, and completely at sea trying to put them back together. Knowing these lim