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re: Working on your car by yourself.

Posted on 4/9/20 at 9:51 am to
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
139230 posts
Posted on 4/9/20 at 9:51 am to
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This is a recipe for disaster.

This sounds like a great OT play by play thread, actually
Posted by TigerFred
Feeding hamsters
Member since Aug 2003
27969 posts
Posted on 4/9/20 at 9:53 am to
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This sounds like a great OT play by play thread, actually


Good point.

Gaston,

It will be a great idea to work on it your self. If you set up a camera and do a live broadcast, there are plenty of car guys on the site to help you out.

Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
41694 posts
Posted on 4/9/20 at 9:54 am to
Specific knowledge...i mean, I’ve watched a ton of car shows.
Posted by TigerFred
Feeding hamsters
Member since Aug 2003
27969 posts
Posted on 4/9/20 at 9:54 am to
I've got a bitchin set of tools you can borrow.
Posted by LSUwag
Florida man
Member since Jan 2007
18145 posts
Posted on 4/9/20 at 9:55 am to
Jump in and do it. Most auto repair (electronics excluded) are just common sense.

Use your phone to take pics before and after if you think you might forget how to put it back together.
Posted by LCA131
Home of the Fake Sig lines
Member since Feb 2008
77716 posts
Posted on 4/9/20 at 9:55 am to
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This isn't your mom's '86 Buick LeSabre.



Why were you in his Mom's 'garage'?
Posted by Gaston
Dirty Coast
Member since Aug 2008
41694 posts
Posted on 4/9/20 at 9:56 am to
I’ve got the metric spanners, I’m good.

As long as the job doesn’t contain a step where you only have one shot at it (I suck at caulking) I can pretty much take apart anything and get it working again.
Posted by TigerFred
Feeding hamsters
Member since Aug 2003
27969 posts
Posted on 4/9/20 at 9:57 am to
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Why were you in his Mom's 'garage'?


Have you seen how much room is in the back seat of that car?
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
139230 posts
Posted on 4/9/20 at 9:58 am to
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Jump in and do it. Most auto repair (electronics excluded) are just common sense.



The only way to learn is to do it!
Posted by VolsOut4Harambe
Baw Land
Member since Sep 2017
14932 posts
Posted on 4/9/20 at 10:20 am to
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You're probably going to have to take half the car apart to get to the parts you want to repair. This isn't your mom's '86 Buick LeSabre.



This

And by the time you get to whichever component needs replacing, it's going to be bolted in with a left-handed thread torx bolt that can only be removed with some bullshite special tool made only in Germany.
Posted by Nicky Parrish
Member since Apr 2016
7098 posts
Posted on 4/9/20 at 10:30 am to
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Can’t be worse than it is now. I get some serious death wobbles at interstate speeds...I just brake by downshifting. Just drive faste

I have an ‘06 Jeep Wrangler that has a pretty good (not death wobble, been there though) wobble at exactly 57 MPH. Just the slightest increase in speed and it smooths out.
I’ve changed all the worn parts, still happens. It’s a Jeep thing!
Posted by SECdragonmaster
Order of the Dragons
Member since Dec 2013
17460 posts
Posted on 4/9/20 at 10:34 am to
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and no garage.


Then no.
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