"If you just get so upset - walk away from the screen before you start posting insults."
When people resort to this behavior, they have already lost their argument.
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I agree.. Probably me too....I'm going to participate as little as possible. Maybe even not at all..............
The topics of politics is allowed again on the forum - provided people behave.
The rule of "no politics" had previously been instituted when there had some fights breaking out.
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Thanks.
Yeah me too, but like I said sometimes it's just out of habit. Working on cars can at times be pretty stressful. You just want to get it done and over with then be back on the road. Then there are those jobs that take a lot longer than anticipated. Not too mention that at often times you're working in confined and hard to reach spaces all bent up like a pretzel. But in the end it's very rewarding especially when at car shows to be able to tell people that you did all of the work with the exception of machine shop work yourself.I curse at times. Nothing like letting it out to ease the stress.
Just recently (Easter Sunday) I rebuilt the fuel pump on one of my old cars. I started the car, it ran for about 5 minutes then quit abruptly. It took me about 15 minutes to figure out what was wrong and about 2 1/2 days to fix it. It's got a big old straight eight engine and the pump was hard to reach. It's a dual action pump, one pumps the fuel, the other is for the vacuum controlled windshield wipers. The shaft that holds the rocker arm in place worked it's way out of the housing. I was lucky that the pump quit while the car was still in my garage. Fortunately I had another unit that I bought a long time ago and was able combine the parts into one good unit. It looks like a pretty simple job except the new diaphragms have to be pre loaded and there are two really strong springs working against you as you put the housing back together. I had to practice using the old unit and old diaphragms several times until I got it right. Then there's another strong spring behind the rocker arm that works against you when installing the pump back on the car, not to mention getting both the fuel and vacuum lines aligned without stripping the threads. This was definitely a four letter word job at times.
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