{"id":494,"date":"2006-05-15T15:34:45","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T15:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/stupid_car_repa.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:46","slug":"stupid_car_repa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/stupid_car_repa.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Car Repair Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the gearhead readers. Have you done any bonehead things while workign on your car (or tractor or??)? Autoblog is looking for submissions here<\/a>, inspired by Car Craft magazine’s Stupid Gearhead Stories<\/a>. Here’s my submission:<\/p>\n

Oh boy. Let’s see.
\n1 – Dad’s ’80 Citation had a bad clutch safety switch, so I occasionally started it by shorting across the starter with a screwdriver. This involved placing my arm between the radiator and the engine past the elbow. One time I forgot to take it out of gear. Thankfully it was in reverse, so I didn’t get run over when it started. I managed to get in it and stop it in the neighbor’s front yard before it got to their living room.
\n2 – Putting a clutch in my ’80 Chevy Monza, my friend put the clutch disc in backwards. He, my Dad and I spent something like 4-6 hours trying to get that tranny in before we finally took the bell housing off, despite my friend’s protests that he was sure it was in right.
\n3 – My ’76 Camaro was dead in the driveway and I wanted to get to in the garage to find out why. The problem was there was no one home to help. No problem for a teenager. I just put the Camaro in neutral and used Dad’s ’77 Cutlass to push it up the driveway. The right turn into the garage did present a little problem, but by pushing it a little, stopping, cranking the wheel on the Camaro, letting it roll back a little, cranking the wheel the other way and then pushing a little more, I was doing fine. Until Mom and Dad got home. They were not impressed with my creativity.
\nI’m sure there are more, but I don’t remember them now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyone else got a story to share?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the gearhead readers. Have you done any bonehead things while workign on your car (or tractor or??)? Autoblog is looking for submissions here, inspired by Car Craft magazine’s StupidRead More Stupid Car Repair Tricks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nStupid Car Repair Tricks - salguod.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/stupid_car_repa.shtml\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stupid Car Repair Tricks - salguod.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"For the gearhead readers. 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