Originally Posted by
F5 Dave
I hate working on cars, but won't pay someone to change oil. It's such a faff compared to my van which you can just climb under, no sheild to take off. But the impact wrench made taking the shield off and replacing it easy. Then I dropped the sump plug into my drain bucket with the hole in the top.
So fav tool of the day was magnet on a stick. Hurray for magnet.
reminds me of a funny (didn't seem so at the time though) that I did very early into my apprenticeship at GGH.Tasked with draining the engine oil of a Cat D8. The drain plug is an 1' square socket, the drain hole would be about 1 1/2" diameter. Lacking the correct tool to put onto my 1/2" drive bar, I had this brilliant idea of using the 1" drive impact wrench, a big heavy two handed compressed air jobbie, to loosen the plug. Worked, too but between getting the plug out, dumping the wrench and getting the drain tin under the flood, about most of the 8 gallons of dirty black series 3 -30 ended up on me. Never tried that trick again.
it's not a bad thing till you throw a KLR into the mix.
those cheap ass bitches can do anything with ductape.
(PostalDave on ADVrider)
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