Stuff you've learned the hard way

Free flathead is an oxymoron.

 

If you're wearing jeans with riveted pockets, don't get within an arms length of a nicely painted car. If it's your car, make visitors wearing jeans with riveted pockets stand at least an arms length away from it.

 

never trust anything that can bleed for 5 days and live.

 

make sure your crank threads are deep enough for the harmonic balancer bolt your using!! or when you remove it... it could come out cross threaded and break in the crank!!!

 

if you think you need some rest before another step on the project, you probably need some... As a "just one last thing and I'm done for tonight" dont't try to take the fu(%ing rusty hinge pins off your model A Doors cause you might not succeed... and not sleep well cause you messed up and now the rest of the pins are riveted inside the hinges...

 

Good stuff not cheap ! Cheap stuff not good !

Cheif Somebody ,or Confusious just making sure somebody gets credit

 

Never wear a necktie when leaning over the radiator fan.
Signed....Headless

 

lol some of these are awesomely hilarious.

i learned that pounding on the end of the sector shaft with a harmmer to get a pitman arm off does a great job of fucking up the end of sector shaft and basically ruining your steering box. apparently the appropriate way to remove a stuck pitman arm is with a pitman arm puller and a little heat from a torch.

well now i know.

 

when to send a potential customer walking. just because it's a paying job doesn't mean you need to do it!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Burned my banana pancakes just yesterday.DAMN! BANANA PANCAKES!

 

Never, ever, EVER think you understand how a woman thinks
That one kinda trumps not hitting your thumb with a hammer, don't say hold my beer and watch this, don't take dares from your buddy with all the scars and the severe limp...

 

A Certifed Welder..........is not a farbicator..........especially if they are a maintenance welder at a factory.

A non fabricator cannot put all the pieces together of a build in their head......one task mind.......weld...weld....weld........but are you sure this is going to pass tech? Bird shit welds where you could not easily see.........factory welder not to concerned on how nice the welds are.......ended up hacking it out with a sawzall and giving to a demo car builder. $$$ lesson learned.....1 year lost on completion.

 

No cheap tools, they turn you into a tissue and blood donor
Any project, take the time and money estimate and triple it
Two guys on work night, good, three guys better. Four guys, nothing gets done but talk.