use never seize on everything yo can, you will thank your self later

 

Abe, I can picture that scene vividly. I'll bet she tells the story from her point of view equally as well.

"He backed up on the HIGHWAY to make me pick up some old rubber thingy! If we weren't 12 miles from my house I would have thrown the ring at him and walked home!!"

 

Happened last week...

• After you've overspent on parts.... Wife asks you to please hold off on spending for a while......the next day, the exact part you've been searching for forever shows up on Craigslist at an unbelievable price.

 

When driving along Interstate 80 in Pennsylvania and you see a long dark colored strap laying along side the road open the window and study it carefully - It very well could be a Rattlesnake - You may not get bit when you pick it up but when you turn it loose in the cab all hell is gonna break loose

 

Good one! No I am so good at eyeing them now I can even tell whether they have both hooks on them or not.

 

I found 40 of them all neatly bundled up. About wiped out on my bike trying to miss them. Some poor flatbed driver probably lost them. And I pick up the ones with only one hook. If you break one you have a couple spare hooks... Found a 10 inch Mac adjustable wrench on a on-ramp once. Still have that too.

 

Never loan out your lawn tractor or quality chain saw.
When building a modified truck one change will require two modifications .
No know cure for racing or this truck disease - only treatment .
Working on these old heaps of iron always takes longer than you think - $$ wise also .

 

The jack stands, bottle jack or large tool are always in the way until the minute you need it then you can't find it anywhere in the garage. Your wife shows up and ask you what is wrong. You tell her and she says "oh that was in the way so I put it in the garden cabinet"

 

or she clears the garden shed into the shop.

 

My biggest fear is that I die and my wife sells the truck for what I told her I spent on it

 

• Tape measures have belt hooks for a reason.
• Sharpies have clips on the caps for a reason.
• Its not a good day in the driveway unless I cut myself at least once.
• Measure twice, cut once. (someday I will get that right)
• Don't show your wife that cool truck on Craiglist (she makes me buy them)
• I need to buy stock in 1/2 wrenches and sockets.

 

I agree with the never seize finding it's way on everything in the garage
have cooked a few exhaust manifolds in the oven smell what smell I don't smell nothing glad we have an extra stove in the basement

 

You can never take enough pictures of the parts you are disassembling or removing.
Remember to take pictures of the parts you are putting back tomorrow even when you say its not necessary because you can remember.
The parts that were going back together tomorrow have now been sitting for too long. Now how do they go together?

The original part you tossed is no longer made as a repro.
Never assume repro parts will fit like the original.

 

Bandaids will not stick to bloody grease. Overestimate the cost by 300% and the time by 500%. Look in the back of all your tool box drawers before buying that 2nd or 3rd special once in a lifetime need tool. Don't fall for a fad, you need to picture yourself as a older person by the time you get done. You will appreciate power steering, brakes, AC, and cruise a lot more by the time your done.

 

Remember to do more than a spot weld on the axle perches before you make some 1/8th mile passes up and down the driveway on the day you get it running before you are going to take it to a show.