had better days lois, had better days...

[wed3k]

I hate working on cars all the time. Occasionally is ok but when it starts to piss me off I start to realize why I became a machinist and not a car mechanic lol.

bingo, i do engine machining and smogs. everything in the automotive field yet not actually working on the car itself.

[crazymikey]

A couple of years ago I picked up a project ford probe gt. It came with a set of ebay lambo door hinges. So I threw them on. Built a set of door panels with 6-6 1/2s in them, I had just finished puting the sides skirts on it. Went to close the drivers door and the hinge broke, and the door landed on my feet. I picked the door up and threw it through the back hatch glass, then hopped in my jeep and ran the car over. After I had successfully parked on the roof, and exploded all the glass, I pulled the car into the shop, on the lift, sawzalled out the motor and tranny, put the car on a trailer and hauled it to the scrap yard. The funny thing is my neighbor has the motor/tranny out of that car in his now.

LMAO, that is too epic. There are times I've wanted to do just that.

[92a6]

is it wrong i dont get mad when working on my car?

[wed3k]

is it wrong i dont get mad when working on my car?

no, i find that getting mad will just end up costing more time.

you need to be friends with the car and talk sweet to it. throwing a fit won't get you any where.

[H311RA151N]

no, i find that getting mad will just end up costing more time.

you need to be friends with the car and talk sweet to it. throwing a fit won't get you any where.

Actually sweet talking does somehow seem to help. I guess its because you think better saying calm. But everyone gets mad from time to time.

However geting mad enough and staying mad long enough to park a 4x4 ontop of the car your having trouble with is not normal.

[RustyBucket]

Yup... exactly as you said in my quote... Google translate doesn't do it justice. I'll just say that first one involves a horse The second one, the dirty is not so much to refer to a person so much as a specific body part

Fow working while stressed, it just becomes a cycle... something doesn't work, you get stressed which means you don't think and something else goes wrong which makes you more stressed.

I definitely understand why so many mechanics smoke. Just step back, have a smoke, chill out for a bit and think it over a bit.