Would You Rather Be Taught Something or Learn It Yourself?

I think it's best to learn from someone who knows how to do it, but it has to be someone who knows how to do it.

I'm about to retire, and my goal is to buy a 70s era Blazer or Bronco and basically rebuild it from scratch, and I have no idea how to do that, but I have friends who have done body work and engine work, and so I think that will help.
If I didn't have that, I suppose I would start with online resources.

I have a 1976 Bronco that I'm working on as a rolling build and I wish either of my grandfathers were still here to show me what to do. I am learning it on my own and most of it they knew and could do it with their eyes closed. I remember watching my grandfather set the timing by ear on a car and then hook up a vacuum gauge to verify it. Never even touched the timing light.

I needed to learn a drafting software for my company; our whole business model depended on me being able to do design in house. We hired a guy to come teach me and for three days we flailed at it, I couldn’t get the environment settled in my brain

So I decided I would figure it out my way which is by doing and rote memory; I doubt I’m using the software correctly or to its best possible capacity but I can make it work.

I’m honestly proud of myself because it was a high pressure situation and I got pretty good at it

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buy a 70s era Blazer or Bronco and basically rebuild it from scratch

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take some advice from someone who has done it…get a 77 or newer (F100 parts). I did a 74 and it was damn near impossible to find affordable parts and ALL of them had to be shipped

You can get F100 parts everywhere

Combo of both, honestly.

Depends on the task, I hate micromanagers but somethings would be difficult to learn on your own. For most things let me do it myself or show me the basics. I tend to get the thousand yard stare when someone is droning on.

On other thing, if you are teaching me let me drive and guide me, don't do the job while talking at me, I learn hands on MUCH better than listening to you talk.

If you have a decent amount of seat time, you can spend time in the right seat, and watch how a real driver gets around corners.

Youll pick up a lot of info and save a lot of money on tires.

JME.

Pretty cool that you are working on a ‘76 Bronco. I had a ‘72 when I was way younger and before those things became rolling gold mines. What motor do you have in it? I will be honest, when those old Broncos became so insanely popular and expensive there is a wealth of information on them now.

On topic, I started training jiu jitsu about 20 years ago. We had just had our 2nd kid so making it to class every day after work was difficult. I was lucky if I made it 2 or maybe 3 times a week. I felt like I was missing so much so I figured I would just take the stuff I learned and just drill them into my brain on my own at home where techniques from class became like secondary reflex to me. I got to where I was damn near as proficient at moves as my instructor which proves that you can be a jack of all trades or a master of nothing. I honed my game down to a few moves I could do in my sleep and became one of the best guys at my school.

Trial and error as long as nobody's life is on the line.

Watch and learn