it all hurts.
I don’t have a lift- yet- so working under the trucks this weekend sort of- well, tenderized me.
You have to get the pinion nut tight. It has a crush spacer in it and you have to make sure you don’t overdo it, but it has to be tight. Someone has to step on the brakes while you gank as hard as you can with your biggest cheater bar tight. Doing this with the head at an awkward angle while pressing against the side of the vehicle has put strain on muscles I haven’t used in a while, sort of like riding a horse for the first time in ten years. So I’m going to rub some Sombra on the affected areas that have no mucous membranes and drag my ass off to bed.
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WTF, that rear diff was leaking from the yoke end?
Crapzor and a half.
Yes it was! Yaaay!!
Can’t bitch too much, after 395,000 miles. Would never have been able to get that all done without the able help of Partner, who is probably suffering his own terrors now. And who hopes you didn’t type ‘Crapzor” with a scot accent.
What’s wrong with a scots accent? But no, that was in my best (readable) internet munchkin accent.
The proper spelling is, of course, “cr4pz0rz-n-p01n7-ph1\/3!!!!11one-one” but I wasn’t going to type all that garbage.
I should have been there, if only so I could point and laugh. Dangit.
We thought about inviting you for a car repair party, but figured you’d show up with a shotgun, after what we put you through at Johnnies on saturday.
Nah, I wouldn’t have brought a shotgun. They’re too much of a pain to clean.
Yep. Best to stick with the blunt instruments
Exactly! A baseball bat, for example, hoses off quite easily.
Maybe that spiked hammer Brigid had a pic of on her site….
Laying on the concrete to fix cars got old, so now I roll out a piece of carpet that I keep in the corner of the garage. Makes a huge difference in how much I ache in the morning.
I left blood and flesh on Daughter’s Focus while replacing the alternator. Had to move the coolant expansion tank, power steering pump reservoir, and undo a motor mount and move the engine forward three inches to remove the offending unit. I hope the new one lasts 100K miles like the old one did so that I can forget the pain before having to mess with it again.
While undergoing an MSET inspection at the Motor Pool in my Air Guard days, I found myself the only qualified wrench to do a demonstration on a Case tractor, 800-series, IIRC. We had split the case to replace something, and to put it back together, I had to show how I was going to swing around 300 #/ft of torque, while maintaining control of the 1″ drive wrench, while by myself. As soon as I got out the jack stand to use as a fulcrum, the inspector signed me off. Good thing, there were 25 bolts to torque, and I might have slipped up on ONE of them.
No offense, did you think of a rotary hammer-wrench? Some of them are quite even in their torque application. I have a Hardly Freight cheapie that does almost exactly 100 #/ft. You could use Plasti-gage to get to the proper clearance, couldn’t you?
Have to feel the nut hitting bottom so air not an option. Wish it had been though.