OK, I'm pulling this motor and trans (400-C-6) out of a car, to put in my truck, using a cherry picker.

I get the whole thing about 5 feet off the ground and almost clear of the car and it becomes "off balance"!Ican keep it from falling over, but, I cant do anything with it cause the tailhousing of the trans is caught on the radiator support on the car.

So,,, there I stand,, holding it from tipping over sideways,,,for 20 minutes before my wife gets home from work,,, I said "give me a hand",,,,,,,,,She says "My hands are full right now,,what do you want?" I said, "I want to NOT get crushed by 1000 lbs of car parts!!!"

BOTTOM LINE: She helped me and no Ford parts were damaged!

 

good answer!

those questions always seem to come when i'm NOT in the mood for them!

ME: (while covered in gasoline that feels like it's eaten most of the way through my skin, being pinned down by a 3/4 full gas tank that i'm trying to hold up in position and get the bolts started) "honey, push down on the jack handle! ...NOW!"

HER: "well... the jack is in between your legs - what if it hurts you?"

ME: "i'm fine - just push the #&*@#$ handle down!"

HER: "well... this doesn't look right... what are you doing under there?"

ME: (huff, puff, grunt, groan...) i'm (grunt) TRYING (huff, puff) to put the (grunt) gas tank (huff puff) back in... push the handle down!"

HER: "well, it looks like a lot of trouble... can't we just take it somewhere and get it fixed?"

ME: "uff! uhggg! (trying to breathe!) the handle!!!"

HER: "it looks like you don't know how to fix it... maybe you can get somone to help you."

she finally jacked it up a couple inches so i could catch my breath and scoot around to where i could push it up and start the bolts...

then i FLEW out from under the car, threw my shirt off, and sprayed myself off with the water hose. i have discovered that, although my hands are completely unaffected by gasoline, it makes my stomach feel like it's on fire!!!

 

I love my wife but she won't do anything unless she knows why it needs to be done. It's irritating to be struggling with something and I ask her to do some simple thing to help and have to discuss it with her before she'll do it. She absolutely won't do it unless she knows why.

 

my wife - what does the sevice light mean?

me - time to change the oil

wife - why do you need to change the oil?

me - cause its dirty and its time to change it.

wife - i didnt know you had to change oil in a new car. i thought it was just old cars.

parts store counter man - falls down laughing

me - speechless

 

I just pray to God I never get pinned under something, I would probably have to wait until she got off the phone OR explain my situation to her for an hour before I got some simple help.

Is it hard to understand "HONEY!,I NEED HELP RIGHT NOW!"?
It must be, cause she always says "I'm making supper, or, I'm on the phone, or, just a minute, or, (this is my favorite) "can't it wait?"
I would think that saying "right now" would pretty much cover it.

I love my wife dearly, but sometimes I could just........

 

my biggest boner was jacking the back of the truck up in the driveway without chocking the front wheels. Talk about having your hands full of truck and not being able to let go?

Oh and the time Got hold of the coil wire in one hand and the timing light in the other and couldn't let go! Honey what are you dancing around like that for?

 

 

Guys,

This is the funniest thread I've read in a long time!! This is some truly classic material. Thanks for sharing the stories. (Maybe a FTE page should be started that contains the funniest auto-related situations.) Thanks,

Chris

 

>
>I love my wife but she won't do anything unless she knows
>why it needs to be done. It's irritating to be struggling
>with something and I ask her to do some simple thing to help
>and have to discuss it with her before she'll do it. She
>absolutely won't do it unless she knows why.


Thank God someone else feels my pain. I've only got a girlfriend, but sometimes I understand how wives could mysteriously disappear and never be heard from again. Like when you've got that serpentine belt almost on and your balancing on top of a five gallon bucket that is teeterin on edge. While exerting all your strength with your chin on the breaker bar and trying to pry the belt on with what's left of your bleeding fingers, and she gets pissed off because you didn't hear her question about what the shiny thing is in top of the motor.

Hopefully she'll never know how close she came to wearing that breaker bar between her eyes.