Thats kind of my thought. I've helped him a couple times in the past. Once his
car wouldn't start, he's out there just cranking away on the starter and it
won't go. I took my inline spark tester over and put it on, its got no spark.
He suddenly remembered you've got to hold the key just so to have spark while
cranking. *facepalm*
Another time he's trying to jump start one of his jalopy's off his mother's
car. He hooks it up and immediately tries to crank it, waits about 10 seconds
and tries again and its still no go.After about 20 minutes of that I'm annoyed,
I go over "Just leave it alone for a goddam minute okay?" After exactly one
minute I tell him to start it and it goes.
Last night I asked if he was starting his own junkyard. He stammered to explain
that they're building one car out of two, this has been going on for several
months mind. I pointed out that I didn't buy a house across the street from a
junkyard. I think/hope he got the picture.
-Curt
On Friday, August 10, 2018, 10:58:57 AM EDT, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Don't get involved or you'll end up being their go-to guy for borrowing
tools and time and expertise for their crappy car projects.
--FT
On 8/10/18 10:26 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote:
> Oh man. Yesterday the idjit across the street is working on another crappy
>Honda. They don't start work until 4 or 5 and figure they'll work well into
>the night keeping all the neighbors awake.At 10:30 I go over, they're trying
>to pull the outer bearing race from the front hub. Funny, I'd figured that car
>would have a unit bearing in the front hub but whatever, theres clearly a race
>there.They're heating it with a jewelry torch, on the wrong side. They're
>heating where they've already pulled the inner race, nowhere near the outer
>race. "Heating" might be a generous term, they're going so slowly that once
>they get halfway around its cooled off where they started.
> They've got a "press" which is a big c clamp sort of thing, its not mounted
> to anything, or lubed at all so they're really limited in how much force they
> can apply.
> I didn't look super close but I don't think they were supporting the hub
> right so when they used their press or beat on it with a hammer I think they
> were just pushing against themselves.
> Meanwhile the whole crowd, theres like 10 of them, are puffing on their vapes
> like drug addicts, which they probably are. I don't know how anybody stands
> that stuff, it gives me a headache.
>
> I've got some stuff to do today, if he shows up before I'm done I'll run a
> bead of weld across the race, or cut it with the rotary tool, or a hacksaw or
> heat it with a real torch and use an actual chisel to beat the race out. I've
> pulled races from cars that were twice as old with five times the miles...
>
> At 11pm I suggested "The neighbors want to sleep, its time to make less
> noise." which put an end to mechanic-ing for the evening.
>
> -Curt
>
> On Friday, August 10, 2018, 12:58:29 AM EDT, clay monroe via Mercedes
><mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>
> Used to be these idiots would do the world a favor and end up dead from the
>errors in judgement. Now, we have medical care that keeps them above ground
>and able to reproduce.
>
>
> clay
>
> 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green
> 1986 SDL - Polei
> 1982 300 SD - Allen
>
> retired models-
> 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap
> 1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery
> 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran
> 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV
> POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> On Aug 8, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Kaleb C. Striplin via Mercedes
>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
>>
>> So I mentioned before about these Facebook kids on this W123 group talking
>> about their cars overheating. Sometimes the things I see on there cause my
>> blood pressure to raise with how idiotic some of these people are. I am not
>> sure why or how these people fell in love with the 123 but the did. A lot
>> of posts are really simpleton stuff. The other day somebody posted a pic of
>> the block heater plugin wanting to know what it was for. Really? Today
>> somebody is posting pics of the autozone hook type spring compressor trying
>> to use it to pull springs out of a 123. There is this one kid that I get
>> the impression he is running some sort of repair business on the side or
>> something as I hear him mention working on customers cars and his profile
>> says something about a "business". Anyway the OP posted a pic of one
>> autozone spring compressor. He posted a pic or something about the 2 piece
>> hook one should work, just spread the coils apart a little bit to get it to
>> fit. Holy smokes, if this guy is getting people to pay him to work on his
>> car and he thinks this is Ok, I am not sure who is dumber, him or whoever
>> lets him work on their car. The other day he posted about replacing the
>> chain tensioner rail on a 617 and he had to remove the radiator and a bunch
>> of crap to get the rail pin out because he did not have the proper tool.
>> Wow. Anyway, sorry for the rant.
>>
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