Scrounging Firewood (and other stuff)
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We work on quite a few German vehicles, we're one of the few independent shops around that will touch them beyond basic maintenance.
They're definitely challenging to work on but usually are very logically designed. For instance on VW/Audi vehicles if you have to work on the front of the engine you usually have to put the bumper in service position. That entails 8 bolts, 10 screws and the bumper can be slid forward 6". It only takes about 20 minutes. It's stuff like that that irritates lots of techs. I don't mind, the customer pays for it.
Wasn't the MS280 a real bugger to work on? I've never seen one in person.Then the ms441 said hold my beer.
The 192 rear handle I have apart is pretty bad too, hopefully when I get the shop done I can get it back together lol.
A few years ago I sold a 99 Volvo convertible that I bought for a Summer car. It had over 200k on it. That car drove like it was new and was an extremely quiet ride. I took quite a few 100 - 200 mile trips with it with the roof down while my knee was recovering from a knee replacement. That car moved on to a new owner when I bought a 2008 Pontiac G6 GT convertible. I can honestly say that the Volvo was a much better handling car than this Pontiac.I dunno about this comparisonand I'm definitely a Stihl fan
Those Beemers might be flashy but those old Volvos will run for a good while longer with regular upkeep. I may be biased though. I had an old Volvo V70 from late high school through university, never gave me much grief, and had pretty good ground clearance with slightly bigger than stock tires.
Is that a single wheel Chevy or a two wheel??
I'll take my SuperSplit over a maul any day of the week. My days of using a maul ended back in the 80's.Morning men.
Haven't heard a good splitting tool fight for a while.
I still love my 8 lb maul. There, that should get us off to the races!!!!! Lol
Too bad the German cars are so over engineered.
I don't think I've owned one of those let alone worked on one, but I could be wrong lol.
As you were saying about the Volvos, many times once you've figured out the system they are terrible to work on, sometimes having one specialty tool is all it takes to turn a crap job into a very easy one.
My old 90 Lexus LS400 was extremely quiet and smooth. I did plugs on it, brakes, and an intake gasket. The plugs and brakes were pretty easy, the intake sucked, I think we had 6 or 7 hrs into it.
Like my buddy says though, when talking about working on cars, they aren't harder n they just take longer lol.
You forgot the bear in the back while zigzagging around back roads slipping in the grease.
My wife used to have a BMW. The battery died. I went to the auto parts store to buy a new one and they WOULD NOT SELL ONE TO ME. They said I was not allowed to install it, only the dealer could do that.
She now drives a Ford Edge ST and loves it.
She now drives a Ford Edge ST and loves it.
Thank you sir for completing the list!!You forgot the bear in the back while zigzagging around back roads slipping in the grease.
What? You’re not allowed to install a battery in your own car ? Think they smoking crack
Mauls are for guys who don't know how to swing a real axe.....Morning men.
Haven't heard a good splitting tool fight for a while.
I still love my 8 lb maul. There, that should get us off to the races!!!!! Lol
Well these days, if I've cut, loaded and unloaded 2 loads with a single wheel , I'm good for the day!!!! In my defense tho I use side boards and stack it high!!!Is that a single wheel Chevy or a two wheel??
Axes are for husky guys who can't cut anything big enough to need a maul!!!!Mauls are for guys who don't know how to swing a real axe.....
Jk. I have husky's but couldn't resist the jab!!! Lol
They connect it to another power source when they remove the battery. If you just remove it to put in a new one, the car loses all kinds of information. It is a stupid design!
Sampson
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In the early 2000's my parents redid the kitchen in their home which was built around 1870. Inside one of the interior walls we found some cow bones, an old clay ink pot, and several snooker balls. People do some strange things. When they redid the flooring in an upstairs hallway, we found that WW1 era news papers were used for underlayment. Those were pretty cool to look at.
Idk about the newer vag products, but all the older stuff I've worked on hasn't been very difficult to work on and fairly simplistic in design. Colling system is a Complicated over engineered mess of hoses, but the rest of the car is pretty straight forward. Even doing the clutch in my hetta this weekend was simple and straight forward, took 5 hours from start to finish, if I had to do it again I could probably get that down to 3-4 hours easily.
Just need a jump pack or another battery and aome jumper cables to do it. Pretty easy.
Sampson
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I will concede, having to remove the wrap including several AV mounts to replace an oil line (which I started on my ms290 last night) is kind of annoying. Haven't had to rebuild it though and I'm not sure I will. It runs pretty good with a muffler mod, but I've got my eye on replacing it with a 261.
