[voodoochild]

Ok, here's my latest bitch. I drove to Jersey City last weekend to pick up a new jointer for my shop, about 1hr 10min away. All highway, route 78, and about the same speed, (these crazy bastards around here don't drive any slower), and I get loaded with my new machine....about 1200-1500lbs, a nice heavy machine, built back when they made real tools, like maybe 1930 or so. So I drive, stop for coffee, and get home, after racing like an idiot down the highway with the rest of the fool cagers. I get home and park my pickup in front of my shop door, so I can unload my new toy with my Kubota tractor. I hop back into the truck to pull it out from under the swinging machine and my brake pedal goes to the floor like I'm steppin into a pile of s**t. I'll be damned if my brake line didn't burst in my driveway, spewing fluid all over everything under there. It wouldn't be so bad, (thank God it didn't break with that machine in the back while racing down the highway), if I could get my truck inside to fix it!! With my new toy in front of the door, and all of my other equipment neatly arranged in my shop, I don't have room for a full size pickup in there. I would put it inside the lower section of my barn, but that's where my bike is presently ripped apart, undergoing it's little transformation. Now, at 40 Y.O., I have to lay on my back in my driveway, in 20 degrees, with fluid dripping all over me, and try to break free brake lines that are so rusted over they have to be cut out. AUTO MECHANICAL WORK SUCKS!! (I'll work on a bike anyday) All that rust falling into my eye magnets, and the lines are in such a spot that you can't hardly get to them. Thank you Ford for not using stainless steel lines on my truck. This BLOWS! (I'm the guy in the middle) Thanks for letting me vent!

[2fastnaz]

I know your pain. When I turned 38 I decided I'd had enough of being hot and greasy. When back to school and let them teach me how to turn a computer on and even network them after I found the any key. For 7 years now I pay people to get greasy. I still do all the wrenching on the scooter and dirt bikes work on the buddies race cars and hot rods. The DD goes to the shop.

Ya know I have to give ya props man I just realized you said 20 degrees. The last time I saw a 20 in the Temperature there was a 100 in front of it. Damn tha's cold.

[hookvnv]

hey voodoochild i feel your pain thats why i taught my youngest son how to wrench now i just tell him to fix it while i sit in the warm house

[voodoochild]

You guys are too funny....My girls are little, not old enough to turn a wrench, but my older daughter always wants to help me on the scoot! Not bad, except she always gotta have her fingers in her ears, ya know, Son of a ***, jesus ch***, where's my f***g tools, (Not that bad, really I enjoy workin on the scoot) My buddy who did all of my mechanical work for the past 20 years just moved 2 hours away so it sucks, I never used to do this crap and when I did it was in his shop.......You know a $50K tool box, full shop, lift, etc, so it was never a problem. Workin on the ground SUCKS! I feel like I'm 17 again........Oh well, I need my cage for tomorrow night so I gotta suck it up and quit cryin like a bitch and fix it. (I hope my skirt doesn't bunch up while I'm working under there)

Thanks for the sympathy

[Texas Road Glide]

get you ass out there and do it.......
stop cryin................you will know when you are at a good stopping point, your hands will be just at the point of hurting, and you round the bolt, busting your knuckles,
just for the record, my 14 year old daughter loves to turn wrenchs,when she was 5 she would rearrange all my tools, all wrong of course,but now she really knows her tools now. daddy's little girl, is more mechanical inclined than her two older brothers, shaking head sideways.............

did you say 30's must be an old rockwell, or a delta......being that old........

one last comment.......the joys of owning a ford..........rotfl
i know iknow

bad TRG bad TRG

[voodoochild]

I'm tellin ya TRG, I got to bite the bullet, hike up the skirt and quit my cryin and just do it, I just hate workin on those things! All that rust and sh*t gettin in my eyes, layin on my back like a freakin dope.......

BTW, the jointer, I don't know what model it is, the patent says 1882 on the cast, and on the fence it says patent 1918, but she's good and heavy and I got alot of rough lumber that I've been drying in my shop for a year now. She cuts like a cream puff too, they ran a couple samples for me before I picked it up. (that was with the old 3 hp 3-phase motor) I just got a sgl phase 5 hp motor for it.

Hook, I wish my daughter was older, she probably would fix it for me.....

And 2fast, I used to have the luxury of my good friend fixing my stuff but when he moved I was screwed, now I'm on my own and too F'ing cheap to pay that kind of money to fix that thing. BTW, don't give me props yet.....she ain't fixed yet

[WildWindwalker]

Hey, get some safety glasses, I have ever had rust in my eyes, but I think they could get infected. I have had dirt in mine, that taught me to always were safety glasses when I am on my back wrenching. Also if its newer than my 78 trans am I dont like to wrench on them to cramped, you need specialty tools. Good luck with your brake lines.