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What did you do WRONG on your 914 Today |
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Apr 14 2013, 09:10 AM
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Repeat Offender & Resident Subaru Antagonist Group: Members Posts: 13,497 Joined: 23-January 09 From: Temecula, CA Member No.: 9,964 Region Association: Southern California |
OK, I'll start. I don't expect that this thread will catch on because, after all, we are men (most of us) and we don't need instructions nor ask directions, right? DD's admission to using the wrong screw on the interior door handle made me realize there may be place for FU's like this and that it could be used in a preventative manner. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
I can't remember all my FU's (and there have been many) but this one is fresh in my mind as it happened yesterday. After bragging about my new shop press I must point out that it only works as well as the idiot operating it. After re-installing my trailing arms I noticed a very noticeable amount of slop in the hub as I put the wheel back on. I pulled the arm off and found that I had not placed a back up behind the bearing, rather the bearing receiver, when pressing in the hub. As a result the bearing separated appx 1-2mm. Placed it back on the press with the proper back up and 2 seconds later is was properly pressed in. I've come to the sad realization that you can't fix stupid. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) |
ClayPerrine |
Oct 23 2014, 11:17 AM
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Life's been good to me so far..... Group: Admin Posts: 15,447 Joined: 11-September 03 From: Hurst, TX. Member No.: 1,143 Region Association: NineFourteenerVille |
When I was a LOT younger, and Betty and I were still dating, she and I installed sway bars on her 914. I was welding the nut plates in the front wheel wells. I had a spark land right on the family jewels. It burned through my jeans and burned the hell out of me. I have never jumped up so fast in my life. Betty laughed at me. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)
One time I was pulling my 914 transmission in a friends garage, by myself, and it fell off the jack, rolling over as it did so. It then smashed the fingers on my left hand between the sharp edge of the motor mount and the concrete. Had to have stitches to both reattach the tendon in the finger, and to close up the gash. At the hospital, the nurse (think Shaq lookalike) told me to wash it out when it was numbed. I started washing, looked at him and said "This looks like chicken fat". The guy in the next ER stall heard me and that set him off (IMG:style_emoticons/default/barf.gif) . The nurse told me I was mean. Then I proceeded to criticize the doctor's stitches (she looked like Melissa Rauch). She threatened that she would have me kept overnight for evaluation, and she would include a prostrate exam for being a critic. I worked on a 71 911 one time that really ate my lunch. The owner brought it in with transmission issues. I was able to fix it because I know 901 transmissions in 914s. I pulled the engine and trans, and fixed the transmission. I put it all back together, put the engine and trans back in the car, and start it up. I put it in reverse to pull out of the bay, and it goes forward. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/stromberg.gif) If you haven't figured it out, I put the differential in like a 914, not a 911. So it had 1 forward gear and 5 reverse gears. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) And this is not a 914, so I got to pull the engine and trans out again to flip the differential. I also painted a 914 bright PURPLE with house paint and thick napped rollers. Most fun I ever had painting a car! That is just a very short sample of the dumb things I have done with 914s over the years. And as they used to say on the Sonny and Cher show "The beat goes on." |
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