On the site repairs
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I replaced the water pump on a '98 Porsche Boxster in the parking lot of a Chuck E Cheese just the other year over the course of a couple days worth of lunch breaks. Car was closer to work than home, and in the middle of the week.
I've done several valve adjustments on motorcycles in the parking lot of my apartment complex, both on my own bikes, and those of my friends.
BC.
I've done several valve adjustments on motorcycles in the parking lot of my apartment complex, both on my own bikes, and those of my friends.
BC.
A couple of times.
Back in school, I had a 66 Chevy Nova that was almost as old as I was. It had carb problems and we were at a mall about an hour from home. It wouldn't run well, so I called a friend for a ride and some tools. I pulled the carb and took it with me. I rebuilt it at home and he took me back to install it and I drove the car home the next day.
Fast forward a quarter century and a year or two ago, my step daughter calls me and says her car won't start. She's at the local library. I grab my jump start box, but that's not the problem. So I take her home, get on-line with an AAP discount code and order the starter. I head back to the library and pull the starter. You can do this from the topside of the car in the 2002 Camry with the 4 cylinder.
I take the start to AAP, have them test it and it's bad. I give them my web order and have them test the replacement. I get an air filter since I had to remove the air box to pull the starter and replace it as well.
Back in school, I had a 66 Chevy Nova that was almost as old as I was. It had carb problems and we were at a mall about an hour from home. It wouldn't run well, so I called a friend for a ride and some tools. I pulled the carb and took it with me. I rebuilt it at home and he took me back to install it and I drove the car home the next day.
Fast forward a quarter century and a year or two ago, my step daughter calls me and says her car won't start. She's at the local library. I grab my jump start box, but that's not the problem. So I take her home, get on-line with an AAP discount code and order the starter. I head back to the library and pull the starter. You can do this from the topside of the car in the 2002 Camry with the 4 cylinder.
I take the start to AAP, have them test it and it's bad. I give them my web order and have them test the replacement. I get an air filter since I had to remove the air box to pull the starter and replace it as well.
I broke down in the middle of a 6 road intersection in college with a 88 VW Jetta. Car simply died with some dash lights not working.
Other cars honking and girlfriend freaking out as I simply lifted my hood to peek. Luckily after a few moments pretty cluess of what to look for found a stray thin wire coming off what turned out to be a central ground for the ECU. A cheap terminal connecter on a VW of course rotted away. I jambed it back on it fired up and stalled when it fell off.
I saw my cute girl chewing gum and asked her for it. Using gum to hold the wire on it fired up and away we went.
She was quite impressed. Me too with luck finding it. A good nite thereafter.
Other cars honking and girlfriend freaking out as I simply lifted my hood to peek. Luckily after a few moments pretty cluess of what to look for found a stray thin wire coming off what turned out to be a central ground for the ECU. A cheap terminal connecter on a VW of course rotted away. I jambed it back on it fired up and stalled when it fell off.
I saw my cute girl chewing gum and asked her for it. Using gum to hold the wire on it fired up and away we went.
She was quite impressed. Me too with luck finding it. A good nite thereafter.
Sitting on the front porch, an old beat up Chrysler station-wagon driving up the hill stalls right in-front of my house. It's a nice summer day, and there is nothing going on, so I said to the driver, "Its probably the ignition system resistor. If you give me ten bucks I'LL drive down to the parts store and bring one back with the change, and show you where it is located so you can swap the new one in." He did, and it fired right up.
I remember helping my dad with his 1983 "R" Model Mack daycab semi one morning when he didnt have enough off road diesel fuel, he had put some ULSD fuel in the tank, and the fuel gelled up. I was helping him heat the fuel tanks up so the fuel would start flowing.
15 YEARS AGO i did more onsite repairs to several cars i had than i did in my dads garage ! i got pretty good at doing alot with a el-cheapo AZ socket set and a 2 ton jack that i carried in the well of my 83 Z28.. oh those were the days, Im even more prepaired now with a almost complete set of mechanics tools in my trucks toolbox.. and of course they never get used. 99% of the things that can go wrong get replaced by me when i think im getting close to the parts life cycle.. Knock on wood, ive not been stranded by one of my own autos in probably 12 years.
most challenging thing i ever did on site was tap n die new bolt holes for the alternator in the 83 Z28, i changed that AZ alternator so many times that i over torqed and eventualy stripped them out.. did that job in about 45 minutes between pizza runs (i was a delivery boy)..
most challenging thing i ever did on site was tap n die new bolt holes for the alternator in the 83 Z28, i changed that AZ alternator so many times that i over torqed and eventualy stripped them out.. did that job in about 45 minutes between pizza runs (i was a delivery boy)..
I've done EVERY type of repair on my work's Pisten Bully snowcat. MANY hydraulic repairs, usually below 0F, usually WAY out in the middle of the woods. When it loses hydro function, it can't move; tools and equipment have to go to wherever it broke.
My 02 Ram is really the biggest onsite repair Ive had to make. I was leaving the parking lot at work and the radiator that had been leaking for the past year blew. I turned around, parked it, went the 20 miles up the road and bought the parts and replaced it.
Others have been fuse links in my Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera in high school, battery changes in various places, and once an oil filter that was overtightened by some goon at Wallys so bad that it cracked the mounting plate.
Others have been fuse links in my Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera in high school, battery changes in various places, and once an oil filter that was overtightened by some goon at Wallys so bad that it cracked the mounting plate.
Did lots of them in the past, but most recent was fuel pump on my 78 Granada on the side of I-81 around 1am. 1/2" wrench in one hand, pliers in the other, and flashlight in the teeth.
Used to do plenty of on site repairs back in the day when I was daily driving my 70 Monte Carlo. But these days I have AAA and have them tow the vehicles back to the house where I have all of my tools.
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